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• Uganda: UK High court fines president Shs60b for banning newspaper
  2007-06-24 11:18:27 - (SomaliNet) Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been ordered by the High Court in the UK to pay Shs60 billion to a Ugandan whose newspaper he banned soon after capturing power in 1986. Exiled
  
• Kenya: Court grants bail to city explosion suspect
  2007-06-24 11:11:18 - (SomaliNet) A man, police say is helping with an inquiry into a blast which killed one person and wounded scores in Kenayn capital Nairobi this month was granted bail by a Kenyan court on Friday.
  
• Kenya: Beheaded, skinned corpse found as cops probe Mungiki
  2007-06-24 11:02:01 - (SomaliNet) Kenyan authorities said on Saturday that a beheaded corpse was discovered in downtown Nairobi and police killed eight people they suspected of belonging to a criminal gang accused in a str
  
• Kenya: Police kill eight suspects, recovers weapons
  2007-06-24 10:55:48 - (SomaliNet) As the crackdown on the gang continues in Kenyan capital Nairobi, Police on Friday night killed eight suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect in Nairobi and Murang’a and recovered p
  
• Kenya: Death row prisoners threaten hunger strike
  2007-06-24 10:42:51 - (SomaliNet) Kenya’s prisoners who are on a death row at the Kamiti Maximum Prison are threatening to go on hunger strike to force the institution to isolate a colleague who is suffering from tuberculo
  
• Tanzania: 20 killed in car accident
  2007-06-24 10:40:51 - (SomaliNet) A minibus and a lorry transporting sand collided in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha killing twenty people were killed after, police said on Sunday. News sources say all the dead
  
• Eritrea: Gov’t dismisses speculations over food shortages
  2007-06-24 10:32:49 - (SomaliNet) Saying the Eritrea no longer needed handouts from other countries, the Eritrean government on Saturday dismissed concerns of potential food shortages if annual rains are poor. Eritrea
  
• Sudan: Journalist, another newspaper employee arrested
  2007-06-24 10:24:23 - (SomaliNet) Sudanese authorities arrested a Sudanese journalist and another newspaper employee without explanation, prompting reporters to file a petition to the constitutional court to protest agains
  
• Sudan: Sudan must stop ‘scaling back’ Darfur force-says Rice
  2007-06-24 10:18:52 - (SomaliNet) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said as she flew to Paris for talks on the humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region that Sudan must stop trying to \"scale back\" a hybrid
  
• Kenya: Proposed law may delay General Election
  2007-06-22 15:33:34 - (SomaliNet) If the Kenyan Parliament enacts a Bill prepared by Vice-President Moody Awori’s committee on minimum constitutional reforms, General Election could be delayed until February 2008.
  

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