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• DR Congo: Gov’t asks UN council to meet on Rwandan incursion
  2008-10-10 03:24:38 - (SomaliNet) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said on Thursday it has asked the U.N. Security Council to call an emergency meeting on what it described as an incursion into its territory by gover
  
• South Africa: ANC likely to split says leading dissident within ruling ANC
  2008-10-10 03:23:02 - (SomaliNet) A leading dissident within South Africa\'s ruling ANC has said it would now be hard to halt plans to launch a breakaway party. South Africa’s Former deputy defence minister Mluleki Geo
  
• Libya cuts oil supplies to Switzerland
  2008-10-10 03:21:34 - (SomaliNet) Three months after a diplomatic row erupted over the arrest of a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Geneva, Libya cut oil supplies to Switzerland on Thursday. In July, OPEC membe
  
• South Africa: Bus crash kills 30 in Mpumalanga province
  2008-10-08 06:30:29 - (SomaliNet) A bus plunged into a river in Mpumalanga province in South Africa killing atleast 31 people, in an accident that local police say the driver lost control of the wheel for reasons that have
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition MDC ‘endangering’ talks- Zimbabwe ruling party
  2008-10-08 06:27:22 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is endangering power-sharing talks which have stalled over cabinet posts, Zimbabwe\'s Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa s
  
• Egypt: 9 killed, 3 missing as Egypt apartment building collapses
  2008-10-08 06:24:16 - (SomaliNet) At least 9 people were killed when an apartment building collapsed in the city of Alexandria on Egypt\'s northern coast overnight, security sources said on Wednesday. According to the
  
• Nigeria: Militants threaten to cause \"state of anarchy\" over corruption case
  2008-10-08 06:22:06 - (SomaliNet) Unless Nigeria’s local government officials accused of corruption are properly dealt with, the militants in Nigeria\'s oil-producing south said on Wednesday that they would create a \"state
  
• Rwanda: Rwanda to turn home of slain ex-president into museum
  2008-10-08 06:18:51 - (SomaliNet) In an effort to to promote reconciliation 14 years after his death, which helped triggered genocide in the central African nation, Rwanda plans to turn the former home of assassinated Pres
  
• PRESS RELEASE: Amnesty International speaks on displaces persons in S.A
  2008-10-08 02:29:33 - (SomaliNet) Amnesty International on Tuesday 7th 2008 said that those displaced by May’s xenophobic violence in South Africa face serious threats to their safety, as the last remaining camps for the d
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition, ruling party fail to meet
  2008-10-07 03:37:59 - (SomaliNet) Denying it planned new talks later in the day with President Robert Mugabe\'s ruling party, Zimbabwe\'s opposition renewed a call on Monday for regional mediators to help break an impasse ov
  

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