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• Zimbabwe: Free and fair run-off election \"impossible\" in Zimbabwe -UN Security Council
  2008-06-25 07:12:27 - (SomaliNet) A free and fair run-off election is \"impossible\" in Zimbabwe because of violence and restrictions on the opposition, the UN Security Council unanimously declared on Monday. The adopti
  
• Egypt striving to secure return of Israeli soldier
  2008-06-24 06:17:53 - (SomaliNet) Egypt is doing all it can to secure the return of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, it told Israel during talks on Tuesday. Gilad is being held by Hamas militants in Gaza for the past tw
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition leader Tsvangirai to leave Dutch embassy over next 48 hours
  2008-06-24 05:52:52 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai intends to leave the refuge of the Dutch embassy in Harare over the next 48 hours, he told Dutch radio on Tuesday. \"It was a temporary ref
  
• Morocco: Police arrest 100 African migrants
  2008-06-24 05:45:23 - (SomaliNet) The Map news agency said on Monday that Moroccan police arrested 100 African migrants after they tried to storm through a border post of the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Twenty-two peo
  
• Senegal: President Wade says Zimbabwe’s Tsvangirai fled soldiers
  2008-06-24 05:42:33 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwe\'s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was fleeing from soldiers when he sought refuge in the Dutch Embassy in Harare, Senegal\'s president said. Senegalese President Abdoulaye
  
• Zimbabwe: \'UN resolution blames Mugabe\'- Opposition leader Tsvangirai
  2008-06-24 05:38:31 - (SomaliNet) An \"important\" United Nation Security Council ruling placed the blame for violence against the Zimbabwean opposition with President Robert Mugabe\'s leadership, Zimbabwe opposition leader M
  
• Nigeria: Armed group declares unilateral ceasefire
  2008-06-23 08:19:52 - (SomaliNet) The most high-profile armed group in the Niger Delta on Sunday declared a unilateral ceasefire starting \"12 midnight on Tuesday, June 24, 2008\". \"The Movement for the Emancipation of
  
• Nigeria: Most active armed group urges foreign workers to leave oil facilities
  2008-06-23 08:17:52 - (SomaliNet) Warning of fresh unrest following a government crackdown on the militants, Nigeria\'s most active armed group on Saturday urged foreign workers to leave oil facilities in the volatile Niger
  
• Central African Republic: Gov’t, rebels ink peace accord
  2008-06-23 07:09:20 - (SomaliNet) In a deal that seeks to end several years of bush guerrilla war in the poor former French colony that borders with Sudan and Chad, Central African Republic\'s government has signed a peace
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition leader Tsvangirai pulls out of run-off election
  2008-06-23 06:55:41 - (SomaliNet) Citing increasing violence as a primary reason, Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will put out of the June 27 run-off election on Sunday. \"We in the MDC (Movement for Demo
  

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