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• Sudan: Another U.N. peacekeeper killed in Sudan’s Darfur region
  2008-07-17 02:05:36 - (SomaliNet) The United Nations said Wednesday, that another U.N. peacekeeper has been killed in the Darfur region of Sudan. The killing comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called efforts
  
• Kenya: Two Chinese women found with Ivory, quizzed at Nairobi\'s airport
  2008-07-16 08:16:41 - (SomaliNet) Kenya\'s wildlife service said two Chinese women were questioned at Nairobi\'s international airport after they were found with 36 pieces of ivory. Kentice Tikomo, a spokesman for the K
  
• Uganda: South Africa’s ruling party leader Zuma arrives in Uganda
  2008-07-16 03:30:19 - (SomaliNet) The leader of South Africa’s ruling party ANC Jacob Zuma arrived last evening for a four-day visit as a guest of Uganda’s National Resistance Movement. Zuma, accompanied by a number
  
• Uganda: 2,500 UN staff being evacuated to Uganda
  2008-07-16 03:26:41 - (SomaliNet) Despite assurances from the Sudanese government in Khartoum that it would protect peacekeepers and humanitarian workers, a total of 2,500 United Nations (UN) non-essential staff in Sudan i
  
• Sudan: UN urges staff to stay home amidst protests against ICC arrests plans
  2008-07-16 03:17:58 - (SomaliNet) As crowds of Sudanese protested against war crimes charges against their president, the United Nations urged hundreds of staff to stay at home on Tuesday. On Monday, the International
  
• Sudan: Egypt minister warns of danger over Bashir indictment
  2008-07-16 03:06:26 - (SomaliNet) Egypt\'s foreign minister, Ahmad Aboul Gaith, on Tuesday warned of \"the danger of irresponsibly approaching the situation in Sudan\" and said the indictment risks destabilizing the country f
  
• Sudan: Expert says ICC charges against President Bashir illegal
  2008-07-16 02:54:21 - (SomaliNet) A prominent expert in international law has said charges of committing genocide and war crimes levelled against Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir by the prosecutor general of the Internati
  
• Sudan: UN is ready to pull staff from Darfur amidst riot threats
  2008-07-15 06:02:57 - (SomaliNet) As supporters of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir planned protests in Khartoum to denounce the world court prosecutor\'s call for him to be arrested for alleged war crimes, the United Nations
  
• Sudan: ICC Bashir arrest plans unfair, politically motivated - senior ruling party members
  2008-07-14 08:55:39 - (SomaliNet) Senior Sudanese officials said Monday that the filing of genocide charges against Sudan\'s president at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is unfair and politically motivated. Howe
  
• Kenya failed to take environment issues seriously- Nobel Prize laureate Wangari
  2008-07-14 08:51:12 - (SomaliNet) As environmentalists battled to halt a government-backed biofuels project, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai said on Sunday that Kenya will regret its failure to protect the envir
  

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