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• Sudan: \'Release our colleagues\'-journalists
  2007-06-20 12:44:44 - (SomaliNet) Claiming that the move represented yet another attempt by the government to stifle press freedom, Sudanese journalists on Tuesday demanded the release of four colleagues detained by author
  
• Eritrea: Thousands demonstrate in honour of war victims
  2007-06-20 12:32:39 - (SomaliNet) In honour tens of thousands of people killed in two wars against their former Ethiopian masters, thousands of Eritreans marched through the streets on Wednesday to a cemetery atop a hill o
  
• Kenya: Nation gets nuclear arms detection kit
  2007-06-20 12:29:26 - (SomaliNet) People entering and leaving Kenya will have to undergo rigorous checks from Customs officials trying to flush out weapons smugglers now that Kenya has acquired nuclear arms detection kits.
  
• Amnesty International press release: Sudan
  2007-06-20 09:03:37 - Amnesty International URGENT ACTION PUBLIC AI Index: AFR 54/032/2007 19 June 2007 UA 156/07 Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture or ill-treatment SUDAN Alfat
  
• Kenya: Armed youth killed, 25 others arrested in ambush
  2007-06-19 11:57:54 - (SomaliNet) An armed youth was killed and at least 25 others arrested by Kenyan police on Monday who also recovered several machetes in an ambush on an illegal training camp on the country\'s coast. A
  
• Sudan: Gov’t ready for meeting with rebels-Foreign Minister
  2007-06-19 11:36:16 - (SomaliNet) Sudanese Foreign Minister said Monday that Sudan is ready to attend Darfur peace talks under joint UN-African Union mediation to resolve a conflict which has driven 2.5 million people from
  
• Sudan: Embassy says Garang death “too sensitive”
  2007-06-19 11:19:59 - (SomaliNet) Claims by the widow of former Sudanese Vice-President John Garang de Mabior that he was assassinated was on Monday described by the Sudanese Embassy as “too sensitive”. Mr Majok Guandong
  
• Kenya: Wanted man over city explosion surrenders to police
  2007-06-18 13:27:54 - (SomaliNet) Although he presented himself to police yesterday after his photograph was circulated in the media linking him to last week’s explosion in Nairobi, Mr Farah Ahmed Hirsi, 38, was immediatel
  
• Sudan: “I know my husband was assassinated”- Garang\'s wife
  2007-06-18 13:17:14 - (SomaliNet) \"When my husband died, I did not come out openly and say he was killed because I knew of the consequences,\" Kenya\'s daily Standard quoted Rebecca Garang as saying. \"At the back of my mind,
  
• E.Africa: \'Rwanda can conduct adequate genocide trials\'- Tanzanian based court
  2007-06-18 13:11:52 - (SomaliNet) A Tanzanian-based international court trying the masterminds of Rwanda\'s 1994 genocide for the last decade wants to send about 17 cases back to their homeland as it prepares to wind down n
  

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