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• Kenya: International community commits $11.5 billion to end food crisis
  2008-06-19 01:58:29 - (SomaliNet) The UN agency has resolved that the food crisis needed to be addressed once and for all, Food and Agriculture Organisation director-general Jacques Diouf said. Diouf appealed to count
  
• Sudan: Militia kidnap, release UN staff member in Darfur
  2008-06-19 01:50:56 - (SomaliNet) UN staff member kidnapped, released by militia in Sudan the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur said one of its staffers was kidnapped and then released by Arab militiamen on horsebac
  
• Sudan: Army, former southern rebels begin deploying in oil-rich Abyei region
  2008-06-19 01:47:39 - (SomaliNet) Following last month\'s agreement to contain recent fighting, Sudan\'s army and former southern rebels began deploying their forces Wednesday under a joint command in the oil-rich Abyei regi
  
• Sudan: 39 people put on trial for suspected involvement in attack on Khartoum
  2008-06-19 01:44:08 - (SomaliNet) Some 39 people have been put on trial on Wednesday accused of taking part in a Darfur rebel attack on the capital last month. During the first attack on the city by a regional rebel g
  
• Ethiopia among nations voted to remain on IPI Watch List
  2008-06-18 06:00:06 - (SomaliNet) The International Press Institute (IPI) has voted to keep Ethiopia, Nepal, Russia, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe on its Watch List. The IPI meeting in Belgrade, Serbia, noted tha
  
• Kenya: Villagers murder seven \'witches\' in eastern Kenya-Police
  2008-06-18 05:53:22 - (SomaliNet)In a spate of increasingly violent vigilantism against black magic in Kenya, villagers in eastern Kenya have lynched seven elderly men accused of witchcraft over the past month, police said
  
• Sudan: U.S. envoy criticizes UN peacekeepers of failure in oil-rich town
  2008-06-18 01:26:08 - (SomaliNet) The U.S. special envoy for Sudan accused U.N. peacekeepers on Tuesday of failing to protect residents of a disputed oil-rich town in southern Sudan during deadly clashes last month. A
  
• Sudan: Rights activist warns China of attacks over oil interests
  2008-06-18 01:22:37 - (SomaliNet) A human rights activist is warning China that it risked rebel attacks against its oil interests in Sudan unless it put pressure on its ally Khartoum to end the violence in Darfur and south
  
• Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea risk new border war – think tank
  2008-06-18 01:14:17 - (SomaliNet) A think-tank warned on Tuesday that the armies of feuding Horn of Africa neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea are \"less than a football pitch\" apart, risking a catastrophic new war on their bo
  
• Eritrea: President Issaias rules out dialogue with Djibouti over frontier row
  2008-06-17 08:35:12 - (SomaliNet) An official statement said Tuesday Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki has ruled out a dialogue with Djibouti over a frontier dispute behind recent clashes that left nine soldiers dead.
  

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