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• Nigeria: Amnesty urges Nigeria to stop capital punishment
  2008-10-22 00:54:03 - (SomaliNet) Saying Nigeria’s legal system is so faulty that innocent people may have been executed Amnesty International is calling on Nigeria to stop capital punishment.. Amnesty International,
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition MDC leader will not attend regional summit
  2008-10-20 04:31:18 - (SomaliNet) After being denied a passport by authorities, Zimbabwe\'s opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not attend a summit of regional grouping SADC in Swaziland on Monday, a party spokesma
  
• South African: Former defence minister announces breakaway
  2008-10-20 02:43:48 - (SomaliNet) In a move that splits the ruling ANC and challenges its years of dominance, South Africa\'s former defence minister has announced a breakaway party will be launched. \"We are going to g
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition leader expects Zimbabwe deal at regional summit
  2008-10-20 02:37:31 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwe\'s rival parties are expected to finalise a power-sharing deal at a summit of the SADC regional group in Swaziland on Monday, The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition le
  
• South African woman killed in Afghan capital
  2008-10-20 02:32:45 - (SomaliNet) A foreign woman working for an aid agency was killed by unknown gunmen in the Afghan capital early on Monday, officials said. An intelligence official said the woman was from South Af
  
• Cameroon: Two policemen detained over refugee kidnap
  2008-10-20 02:26:03 - (SomaliNet) A police official said Cameroonian authorities have detained two police officers accused of kidnapping a political refugee and handing him over to neighbouring Equatorial Guinea, where he
  
• Cameroon: Pirates resist in border peninsula
  2008-10-20 02:17:15 - (SomaliNet) Cameroon’s defence ministry said on Sunday that security forces beat back an attack by pirates in waters off the Bakassi peninsula bordering Nigeria at the weekend, sinking one of their s
  
• Mauritania: AU boss to meet junta leaders to discuss crisis
  2008-10-17 07:54:48 - (SomaliNet) Tanzania said on Friday that the chairman of the African Union will meet the leaders of Mauritania\'s military junta this month to discuss the West African nation\'s political crisis. T
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition MDC calls for UN, AU mediation in talks
  2008-10-17 07:49:28 - (SomaliNet) The United Nations and African Union should step in to mediate between the country\'s rivals if talks aimed at rescuing a power-sharing deal stay deadlocked over cabinet posts, Zimbabwe\'s o
  
• Egypt welcomes Syria-Lebanon diplomatic ties
  2008-10-16 04:14:59 - (SomaliNet) Egypt has welcomed the establishment of diplomatic ties between Syria and Lebanon for the first time since independence from French rule. Ahmed Abul Gheit, Egyptian Foreign Minister
  

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