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• Kenya: Floods affect thousands of people in north-eastern Kenya
  2008-11-05 01:39:57 - (SomaliNet) About a month after floods displaced hundreds of families in the region, thousands of people have been affected after flash floods submerged hundreds of hectares of farmland in the north-e
  
• Sudan: Ex-president dies at 67 in Egypt
  2008-11-03 06:50:57 - (SomaliNet) Sudan\'s former President Ahmed al-Mirghani has died at the age of 67 in Egypt. Al-Mirghani was removed from power 19 years ago by the military coup that brought the current regime to
  
• Sudan: Gunmen kill South African peacekeeper in Darfur
  2008-10-30 06:31:08 - (SomaliNet) Unknown gunmen have attacked two South African troops guarding water well, killing one and wounding the other, a spokesman for Darfur peacekeepers had said. Spokesman for the joint U.
  
• Uganda: Ugandan gov’t to export power to Sudan, Congo
  2008-10-30 03:47:11 - (SomaliNet)Uganda’s Energy minister Daudi Migereko on Tuesday told MPs on government assurances that the Ugandan Government would export 220 kilo-volts to Lessos in Kenya from the Jinja-based Nalubale
  
• Uganda: UN refugee agency says hundreds of Congolese refugees flee to Uganda
  2008-10-30 03:03:18 - (SomaliNet) The UN refugee agency said on Wednesday that hundreds of refugees have fled the Democratic Republic of Congo\'s war-torn eastern province for neighbouring Uganda. \"We witnessed 500-600
  
• Uganda: Police shoots dead two armed thugs
  2008-10-30 02:56:25 - (SomaliNet) After they attempted to rob a motorcycle from a bodaboda cyclist, the Police shot dead two armed thugs in Lungujja-Kosovo, Rubaga Division. Police said the robbers did not have any identif
  
• South Sudan: Two oil workers killed, third kidnapped
  2008-10-30 02:09:58 - (SomaliNet) Sudanese security sources said two oil workers were killed and a third was kidnapped by unknown militants at an oil field in south Sudan on Wednesday. All the three were employees of
  
• E.Africa: Kenya, Ethiopia foreign ministers address Somali lawmakers
  2008-10-29 03:29:54 - (SomaliNet) An extraordinary summit of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) opened Tuesday in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to criticism of Somali government leaders by the country\'s la
  
• Ethiopia blames Somali transitional rulers for peace failures
  2008-10-29 03:28:42 - (SomaliNet) Ethiopia, whose forces toppled an Islamist regime in Mogadishu two years ago, on Tuesday blamed the failure to restore stability in Somalia on the transitional rulers it helped bring to po
  
• Ethiopia: Three Nigerians caught trying to steal $27 million
  2008-10-29 03:26:40 - (SomaliNet) Three Nigerians have been detained after forging the governor\'s signature to try to steal $27 million from its international account, Ethiopia\'s central bank, the National Bank of Ethiopia
  

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