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• Sudan: Gov’t accepts UN-AU Darfur force
  2007-06-13 08:41:09 - (SomaliNet) Where as some UN diplomats fear conditions may be attached, Sudan has accepted a United Nations-African Union (UN-AU) peacekeeping force of up to 23 000 troops and police for Darfur but so
  
• Sudan: Gov’t shuns French call for meeting on Darfur crisis
  2007-06-12 14:55:47 - (SomaliNet) Claiming the timing was not right, Sudan Monday shunned a French initiative to host a meeting of key nations to find a solution to Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region on June 25. Sudan pr
  
• Kenya: First hand witness account of city blasts
  2007-06-12 14:47:42 - (SomaliNet) A day after a shocking explosion in Kenyan capital Nairobi at City Gate Restaurant on Moi Avenue, witnesses have given their first hand account of the incident. According to a witness
  
• Kenya: Police arrests 3 in connection with Nairobi blast
  2007-06-12 12:30:07 - (SomaliNet) Three people were arrested by Kenyan police following a suicide bombing that killed at least one person and wounded dozens in the capital Nairobi. According to reports, the rush hour expl
  
• Eritrea: Eritrean President renews rhetoric against Ethiopia
  2007-06-12 12:22:42 - (SomaliNet) Eritrea\'s president stepped up the rhetoric against archrival Ethiopia Monday, saying that its claims that his government backs terrorism indicated that its regime was floundering and head
  
• Tanzania: 12 killed in vessel accident
  2007-06-12 12:14:50 - (SomaliNet) In a tragic accident that occurred on Lake Rukwa on Friday, twelve people, including three small children were killed, a source said Tuesday. Suleiman Kova, Mbeya Regional Police commande
  
• Ethiopia’s High Court convicts four editors, three publishers
  2007-06-12 08:04:59 - New York, June 11, 2007— Ethiopia\'s High Court today convicted four editors and three publishers of now-defunct weeklies of anti-state charges linked to their coverage of the government’s handling of
  
• East Africa: Rwanda, Burundi to become EAC members by June 18
  2007-06-11 12:13:10 - (SomaliNet) Come June 18 sign, heads of Rwanda and Burundi will sign a treaty in Kampala to become full members of the East African Community. This has been reached at after the two countries ap
  
• Kenya: Death toll from wall collapse hits 14
  2007-06-11 10:47:10 - (SomaliNet) Kenyan police said on Sunday that the death toll from a wall collapse in a Kenyan capital Nairobi slum rose to 14, including three babies, after emergency workers dug through rubble and fo
  
• Uganda: Mob stones three women to death in camp
  2007-06-11 10:31:30 - (SomaliNet) Three women accused of being witches in a Ugandan refugee camp were stonned to death by an angry and burned, police said on Sunday. The three were attacked after the mysterious death
  

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