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• Tanzania: Decline in world oil prices to be felt locally after 3 weeks
  2008-08-25 05:51:21 - (SomaliNet) Tanzania’s Energy and Water Utility Regulatory Authority (Ewura) has said tthe current changes in world oil prices will only be felt locally after three weeks or so due to some logistics.
  
• East Africa: RIFT Valley Railways pledges to raise $10m
  2008-08-25 05:35:59 - (SomaliNet) As the embattled railway operator struggles to retain its contract and get more funds from international financiers, RIFT Valley Railways (RVR) shareholders have pledged to raise $10m.
  
• Sudan: Genocide claims nonexistent-president al-Bashir
  2008-08-20 07:36:16 - (SomaliNet) Sudan\'s president Omar al-Bashir denies that his regime is orchestrating genocide in the troubled western region of Darfur. In July, the International Criminal Court in The Hague indi
  
• Sudan: 8 Darfur rebels sentenced to death
  2008-08-18 06:51:16 - (SomaliNet) A senior leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) is among the eight Darfur rebels sentenced eight to death on Sunday for their involvement in an unprecedented attack on the capit
  
• Uganda: LRA chief asks for another chance for peace talks
  2008-08-18 05:58:05 - (SomaliNet) The UN special envoy on northern Uganda, Joachim Chissano, in a telephone call to LRA chief Joseph Kony said he wanted to first meet local leaders before President Yoweri Museveni and sign
  
• Sudan: President al-Bashir to travel to Turkey amidst ICC arrest plans
  2008-08-16 05:39:36 - (SomaliNet) A presidential source and state media said Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will travel to Turkey in August, his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court moved to i
  
• Tanzania: Patient kills two in-patients, injures 5 others in hospital
  2008-08-13 04:39:15 - (SomaliNet) A man admitted to Dar es Salaam-based Muhimbili National Hospital’s psychiatry ward ran amok, hitting two other in-patients dead with an iron bar and leaving five others seriously injured.
  
• Sudan: Put pressure on war-torn Darfur as well - world community urged
  2008-08-13 04:03:14 - (SomaliNet) The world community was on Tuesday urged by the military commander of the UN-African Union mission in Darfur to put as much pressure on the fragmented insurgency in the war-torn Sudanese r
  
• Kenya: Gov’t establishes diplomatic ties with south-east Asia’s Brunei
  2008-08-13 03:20:28 - (SomaliNet) The Brunei government said on Tuesday that the oil-rich south-east Asian sultanate of Brunei has established diplomatic ties with Kenya. Diplomats from both sides signed the documents
  
• Uganda: Lack of law slow LRA’s Kony prosecution- Principal Judge
  2008-08-12 08:24:41 - (SomaliNet)Uganda’s Principal Judge James Ogoola has said the war crimes court, set up to try crimes committed in the northern Uganda war, cannot start operations before a law determining its modaliti
  

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