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• Nigeria: Teachers threaten to launch indefinite strike next week
  2008-06-19 01:29:01 - (SomaliNet) Unless the Nigerian government honours a promise to raise their pay, Nigerian teachers will launch an indefinite strike next week, a union leader said Wednesday. \"We will begin a full
  
• DRC: War crimes trial \'not finished\'- court official
  2008-06-19 01:25:49 - (SomaliNet) A court official said Tuesday that the suspension of war crime proceedings against former Democratic Republic of Congo militia Chief Thomas Lubanga Dyilo \"does not mean the end of the matt
  
• Zimbabwe: South Africa’s Zuma doubts Zimbabwe free re-run polls
  2008-06-19 01:22:06 - (SomaliNet) South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday he did not think Zimbabwe\'s forthcoming presidential election would be free, a party spokesperson conf
  
• South Africa: Thugs kill 37-year-old in shootout in Pretoria
  2008-06-19 01:19:08 - (SomaliNet) After police responded to an ATM bombing in Kilner Park, Pretoria on Wednesday, a 37-year-old policeman was shot and killed, police said . At least 10 people opened fire on two police
  
• Zimbabwe: S. A’s Mbeki meets Mugabe as Rice says nation deserves free election
  2008-06-19 01:14:39 - (SomaliNet) As US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on African leaders to press for a fair ballot in Zimbabwe, South African President Thabo Mbeki met with Zimbabwe\'s leader Robert Mugabe to
  
• South Africa: Former president Nelson Mandela endorses journalism awards
  2008-06-18 06:21:13 - (SomaliNet) Nelson Mandela has endorsed the David Astor Journalism Awards, calling them “a fitting and meaningful way” to honour the late editor of The Observer newspaper who vigorously championed the
  
• South Africa: Durban International Airport \'officially closed\'
  2008-06-18 06:18:22 - (SomaliNet) After an aircraft went off the runway while landing on Wednesday, Durban International Airport has been closed, the Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) said. The incident occurred
  
• Chad: EU peacekeepers failing to protect civilians-President Deby
  2008-06-18 06:14:41 - (SomaliNet) European Union peacekeepers are failing to protect civilians as rebels forces continue to capture towns on their march toward the capital from the east, Chadian President Idriss Deby charg
  
• Zimbabwe: Government imposes dusk-to - dawn curfew
  2008-06-18 06:10:22 - (SomaliNet) In what has been described as part of President Robert Mugabe’s strategy to win the poll at all costs, the Zimbabwean government has imposed a dusk-to - dawn curfew in the countryside hit
  
• 120 migrants sink off Libyan coast –Egyptian official
  2008-06-17 08:23:43 - (SomaliNet) According to Egyptian sources, a boat carrying over 120 African migrants en route to Europe sank off the Libyan coast. The Egyptian Interior Ministry said on Monday that the Libyan au
  

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