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• Eretria: 37-year-old Eritrean woman dies in custody in Eritrea
  2008-07-31 02:10:26 - (SomaliNet) A 37-year-old Eritrean Christian woman has died while in custody in Eritrea. The Eretria woman, Azieb Simon, succumbed to malaria while being held in the Wi\'a Military Training Center, ac
  
• Ethiopia-Eritrea: UN Security Council votes to terminate mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
  2008-07-31 02:01:59 - (SomaliNet) After restrictions placed on the peacekeeping operation by Eritrea have undermined its ability to carry out its mandate, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday voted unanimously
  
• Uganda must probe alleged torture of gay activist- Human Rights Watch
  2008-07-31 01:50:48 - (SomaliNet) New York-based Human Rights Watch and two other rights groups on Wednesday urged Uganda to investigate the alleged detaining and torture of a gay rights activist on trial for protesting ag
  
• Kenya tourism earnings droop by 32 pct on violence- Kenya\'s tourism board
  2008-07-30 07:56:31 - (SomaliNet) Kenya\'s the tourism board said on Wednesday that the East African nation’s tourism earnings tumbled 32 percent in the first half of this year from the same period in 2007 after a bloody po
  
• Eritrea-Ethiopia: UN council planning to disband peacekeeping mission to volatile border
  2008-07-30 07:48:54 - (SomaliNet) After Eritrea forced out most of the U.N. troops, the U.N. Security Council is planning to disband its peacekeeping mission to the volatile border between Eritrea and Ethiopia, diplomats s
  
• Kenya-Uganda railway expansion halted by $64-million funding delay
  2008-07-28 03:07:01 - (SomaliNet) A delay of $64-million in funding was preventing them from meeting their targets for upgrading the 110-year old service, a private consortium managing the railway line between Kenya and Ug
  
• Uganda to host international conference on social services delivery
  2008-07-28 03:01:53 - (SomaliNet) Uganda is to host an international conference that seeks to enhance the delivery of social services. The conference expected to draw several countries among them Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, Sou
  
• Uganda: 7 killed, over 40 injured as bus overturns in Western Uganda
  2008-07-28 02:53:21 - (SomaliNet) A bus belonging to Gateway bus Company heading for Kampala from Kisoro overturned at Bukinda trading centre just 20km from Kabale town along the Kabale Mbarara-Kampala highway on Saturday.
  
• East Africa: Tanzania`s exports to Kenya rises by 400 per cent
  2008-07-28 02:44:31 - (SomaliNet) The Kenya High Commission in Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam has confirmed that the value of Tanzania`s exports to Kenya has registered a 400 per cent rise in the last six years. Sta
  
• Uganda: Egyptian President to meet President Museveni over ICC Bashir indictment
  2008-07-28 02:33:02 - (SomaliNet) According to Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will meet Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni this week over the indictment by the International Criminal
  

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