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• Uganda: Gov’t to open railway link to Tanzania
  2007-06-22 15:04:29 - (SomaliNet) As part of an effort to improve the transport sector in Uganda, the Government is to open up a railway route to Tanzania, President Yoweri Museveni has revealed. “We are also looking
  
• Kenya: Wave of killings in capital city
  2007-06-22 14:59:20 - (SomaliNet) A wave of violence overnight killed at least 17 people in and around the Kenyan capital, including two people found beheaded and 14 killed in gun battles, police said on Friday. Accor
  
• Uganda: Child trafficking from Asia, Somalia
  2007-06-22 14:55:02 - (SomaliNet) The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has revealed that Asian children mainly from India, Pakistan and China are being trafficked into Uganda. “Children from these countries are
  
• Kenya: Police holding Tanzanian over military operations
  2007-06-22 14:41:55 - (SomaliNet) A Tanzanian witchdoctor who is said to have been administering oaths to over 100 youths undergoing illegal military training in a forest in Coast Province is being held by Kenyan police.
  
• Kenya: City violence kills 17 people
  2007-06-22 08:18:55 - (SomaliNet) Kenya’s police said on Friday that 17 people were killed in and around the Kenyan capital Nairobi, including two people found beheaded and 14 killed in gun battles. According to news
  
• Sudan: Authorities release four journalists
  2007-06-21 16:09:11 - (SomaliNet) Four journalists detained a week ago trying to report on violent protests against the construction of a new dam in the Kajbar area in northern Sudan were on Wednesday released by Sudanese
  
• Sudan: Darfur rebels accuse gov’t of attacking their forces
  2007-06-21 16:01:46 - (SomaliNet) Sudan’s Darfur rebels on Thursday accused government troops of attacking their forces close to the Chadian border, saying three civilians were abducted following the raid. Meanwhile,
  
• Kenya: Security kills suspect on boarder with Somalia
  2007-06-21 15:53:44 - (SomaliNet) A man was killed by Kenyan security forces on the border with Somalia on Tuesday where two Kenyan policemen believed to have been kidnapped by Islamist fighters were found murdered, witnes
  
• Sudan: President Bashir laments on Darfur sanctions
  2007-06-20 13:09:05 - (SomaliNet) Saying existing sanctions had helped Sudan to stand on its own two feet,Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir said on Tuesday he was not concerned by the prospect of more US sanctions. \"Let t
  
• Kenya: Security arrests 5,000 in gang crackdown
  2007-06-20 12:53:05 - (SomaliNet) In a crackdown on Mungiki and other terror gangs, five thousand people have been arrested. Internal Security assistant minister Peter Munya told the House that those seized include 1,000
  

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