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• Kenya will suffer morally and culturally if abortion law is passed- Bishops
  2007-06-27 15:14:53 - (SomaliNet) Kenya will suffer morally and culturally should a law allowing abortion be passed, the Catholic Church has said. The Kenya Episcopal Conference said multinationals were behind recent
  
• Uganda: ‘Blackouts likely to continue in Uganda’-Minister of energy
  2007-06-27 15:14:09 - (SomaliNet) Rains have rescued Lake Victoria from its lowest water levels since 1923, enabling Uganda to boost hydroelectric power, but blackouts are likely to continue, the minister of state for ener
  
• Sudan: Presidential adviser killed in car accident
  2007-06-27 15:13:22 - (SomaliNet) Sudan\'s powerful presidential adviser Majzoub al-Khalifa has been killed in a car accident in northern Sudan, a presidential source said on Wednesday. \"He died in a car accident on hi
  
• Kenya: Gov’t to spend Sh10 billion to fight floods
  2007-06-26 12:58:27 - (SomaliNet) A total of Sh10 billion will be used by the Kenyan government in the next month to address the floods menace in Western Kenya. The funds were donated by the World Bank for community
  
• Kenya: 7 killed in gang shoot out in capital city
  2007-06-26 12:31:46 - (SomaliNet) As crackdown on gang s intensifies in Kenya, seven suspected gangsters were gunned down in shootouts in Nairobi and Thika. News sources say five of the suspects were shot dead on Nai
  
• Kenya: Gov’t says HIV rate drops by 5.9 per cent
  2007-06-26 12:03:42 - (SomaliNet) Admitting that HIV still posed a major challenge in the East African country, the Kenyan government said on Tuesday the rate of HIV and Aids infections had dropped 5,9 percent. The HI
  
• Ethiopia: Rebels close to Somalia accuse Ethiopia of bombing villages
  2007-06-26 11:56:34 - (SomaliNet) In an escalating offensive against the insurgents, rebels in Ethiopia\'s remote eastern Somali region accused the government on Monday of using warplanes to bomb three villages, killing aro
  
• Kenya: Police says shot 25 gangs since last week
  2007-06-26 11:36:11 - (SomaliNet) After at least 13 people were killed in a surge of violence blamed on the group,Kenyan police on Tuesday said they had shot dead at least 25 suspected members of the Mungiki criminal gang
  
• Kenya: Police kills two suspected gang members
  2007-06-26 08:55:20 - (SomaliNet) Two suspected members of a banned sect blamed for a string of recent murders and beheadings in a mounting crackdown across Kenya were killed by Kenyan police on Tuesday. Tito Kilonzo,
  
• Tanzania: Two youths qualify for BBC Kiswahili entrepreneur competition
  2007-06-24 11:36:57 - (SomaliNet) Four East African finalists have been chosen for `Prosper with the BBC, (literally Faidika Na BBC)`competition, and two Tanzanian youngmen, Francis Wakara Baraka and Geofrey Kibiki among.
  

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