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• Niger: Thirteen killed, 17 others injured in motor accident
  2008-07-01 04:20:48 - (SomaliNet) Niger state radio reported on Monday that thirteen people were killed and 17 hurt when the truck loaded with goods and livestock they were travelling in overturned in western Niger. T
  
• Egypt to reopen Rafah border with Gaza for two days
  2008-07-01 03:56:15 - (SomaliNet)A Palestinian diplomat in Cairo said on Monday that Egypt is to reopen the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip for two days to allow hundreds of stranded people on both sides to cross
  
• Zimbabwe: Thousands use ballots to insult President Mugabe
  2008-06-30 01:20:06 - (SomaliNet) Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters wrote rude messages on their ballot papers, many of them insulting of Robert Mugabe. According to sources, there were 131 481 spoilt pa
  
• South Africa: Chaos at Cape Town International Airport on Sunday
  2008-06-30 01:13:38 - (SomaliNet) With two Johannesburg-bound SAA flights failing to load passengers\' luggage and a Delta Airlines international flight being delayed for about 24 hours, there was chaos at Cape Town Interna
  
• South Africa: Eight people killed in car crash in Johannesburg
  2008-06-30 01:09:45 - (SomaliNet) Police said a one-year-old baby is among eight people killed in accident during a high speed car chase on the M1 South in Johannesburg on Monday. \"Police became suspicious of a silver
  
• Zimbabwe: AU should deploy troops in Zimbabwe- says Kenya’s Premier Odinga
  2008-06-30 00:58:56 - (SomaliNet) Kenya\'s Prime Minister Raila Odinga was quoted as saying on Sunday that the African Union (AU) should deploy troops in Zimbabwe to resolve a crisis that has become an \"embarrassment\" to th
  
• Zimbabwe: Mugabe crowns himself king of Zimbabwe
  2008-06-30 00:55:59 - (SomaliNet) As most of the world rejected the sham election, President Robert Mugabe has crowned himself king of Zimbabwe for another five years. A Southern African Development Community (SADC)
  
• Zimbabwe: Presidential run-off vote not legitimate - EU Commission
  2008-06-27 06:48:36 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwe\'s presidential run-off is not legitimate, European Commission said Friday describing it as a \"sham\" and saying it did not recognize the election . \"The European Commission,
  
• South African former leader Mandela condemns Zimbabwe conflict
  2008-06-27 01:35:51 - (SomaliNet) A day before an internationally condemned run-off election was scheduled to take place, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe\'s information minister on Thursday dismissed criticism from anti-ap
  
• Zimbabwe: Court grants bail for opposition member Biti
  2008-06-27 01:25:54 - (SomaliNet) A Zimbabwe court on Thursday granted bail for opposition number two Tendai Biti, who has been held in jail on vote-rigging and subversion charges and faces the death penalty, his lawyer s
  

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