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• Sudan: U.S Illinois senator Durbin puts pressure on Sudan over Darfur
  2008-06-25 07:45:00 - (SomaliNet) The United States Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, a longtime critic of the Sudanese government for supporting atrocities in the Darfur region, is now adding to the pressure facing the North
  
• Kenya: Five gang members among 13 killed by police in crime crackdown
  2008-06-25 07:20:35 - (SomaliNet) Officials said on Tuesday that five members of Kenya\'s murderous Mungiki gang were among 13 suspected criminals killed overnight by police. The chief police investigator in the area S
  
• Horn of Africa: U.N. considering disbanding Eritrea, Ethiopia force
  2008-06-24 07:24:30 - (SomaliNet) The U.N. Security Council considered on Monday a plan to disband its peacekeeping mission to the volatile border between Eritrea and Ethiopia after Eritrea forced most of its troops to go
  
• Uganda: Rebel chief Kony to resume peace talks with gov’t
  2008-06-23 08:30:44 - (SomaliNet) Uganda’s Lord\'s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader Joseph Kony on Monday urged the revival of stalled peace talks with the Ugandan government to try and end more than two decades of insurg
  
• Ethiopia accuses some aid agencies of exaggerating drought impact
  2008-06-21 05:49:55 - (SomaliNet) Ethiopia accused some aid agencies on Friday of exaggerating the impact of a drought afflicting the country to raise money under false pretences. Some 4,6 million people and around 75
  
• Sudan: EU to threaten Sudan with new sanctions-draft
  2008-06-20 06:36:57 - (SomaliNet) A draft statement of an EU leaders summit said European Union leaders were set to warn Sudan on Friday that it faces fresh sanctions if it fails to cooperate on war crimes. The draft
  
• South Sudan: Authorities begins mass disarmament campaign
  2008-06-20 05:02:39 - (SomaliNet) As part of an effort to try to end tribal conflicts which claim dozens of lives each year, South Sudanese authorities have begun to collect thousands of guns amassed by civilians during de
  
• Sudan: Darfur repatriation may delay Sudan 2009 elections- leader
  2008-06-20 04:38:50 - (SomaliNet) Sudan’s last democratically elected leader said conflict in Darfur and the slow return of millions displaced by civil war may delay beyond 2009 Sudan’s first free election in more than tw
  
• Sudan: Gov’t asks France to help defuse tensions with Chad
  2008-06-20 01:00:38 - (SomaliNet) After the Chadian government in Ndjamena accused Sudan of waging border attacks and backing rebels seeking to overthrow President Idriss Deby Itno, Sudan asked France on Thursday to help e
  
• Kenya to soon discuss re-opening border with Somalia
  2008-06-19 05:54:21 - (SomaliNet) A minister said on Wednesday that Kenya will soon discuss re-opening its border with Somalia to exercise better control over the influx of refugees who have continued to cross the frontier
  

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