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• Kenya: Korean firefighter feared kidnapped
  2007-06-29 03:45:44 - (SomaliNet) A North Korean-flagged freighter has gone missing off the Horn of Africa coastline after last being spotted seven weeks ago, a Kenyan maritime official said on Friday. The MV Sea Prin
  
• Sudan: Britain drafts Security Council resolution for African Union
  2007-06-29 03:43:47 - (SomaliNet) Britain has drafted a Security Council resolution authorising the joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force for Darfur approved by Khartoum and warning of possible sanctions if the Sudanes
  
• Kenya: Gov’t to shut hotels which promote child sexual exploitation
  2007-06-29 03:41:26 - (SomaliNet) The Kenyan government will shut hotels that promote child sexual exploitation by foreign and local visitors, a practice widespread in the country\'s coastal region, reports said on Friday.
  
• Kenya: Ugandan forces recover 20 dead cattle stolen from Kenya
  2007-06-27 15:23:27 - (SomaliNet) Ugandan security forces have recovered 20 head of cattle out of 500 stolen from Pokot herdsmen last week. Assistant Home Affairs minister Samuel Moroto said the Ugandan officers had
  
• Kenya: Man accused of killing son stoned to death at funeral
  2007-06-27 15:21:58 - (SomaliNet) Kenyan villagers on Tuesday stoned to death a man in his 60s at the burial of his second-born son on suspicion that he had used black magic to kill him as a sacrifice, police said. An
  
• Sudan: Darfur meeting ends without concrete action
  2007-06-27 15:20:05 - (SomaliNet) An international meeting on Darfur ended on Monday with promises to support peacekeeping efforts and a political process to stop the violence in western Sudan, but with few concrete steps.
  
• Kenya: Secondary school fees may drop further next year-report
  2007-06-27 15:19:14 - (SomaliNet) Secondary school fees might drop further next year as the Government was reviewing all the levies parents pay. The review, whose recommendations are expected next month, is meant to
  
• Sudan: Japan gives US $ 4mln to Chad, CAR refugees affected by Darfur war
  2007-06-27 15:16:55 - (SomaliNet) Japan said on Tuesday it will offer four million dollars (about R28-million) of emergency grant aid to internally displaced refugees in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) affected
  
• Eritrea: Media watchdog says world \'ignoring\' Eritrea media crackdown
  2007-06-27 15:16:20 - (SomaliNet) An international media watchdog castigated the international community on Wednesday for \"indifference\" to a media crackdown in Eritrea where it said a female TV presenter became the latest
  
• Sudan shows \"total unconditional acceptance\" for Darfur UN force
  2007-06-27 15:15:34 - (SomaliNet) Sudan has expressed its \"total unconditional acceptance\" of a hybrid international force for Darfur, but the world must keep up the pressure on Khartoum, Britain\'s United Nations envoy sai
  

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