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• Ethiopia: Rights war crime report fabricated, slanderous
  2008-06-13 06:27:02 - (SomaliNet) A report by a human rights group accusing Ethiopia’s military of war crimes during a campaign against rebels was fabricated and slanderous, Ethiopia said on Friday. On Thursday, Huma
  
• Ethiopia: U.S, Western gov’ts accused of Ethiopia war crimes-Rights group
  2008-06-13 00:22:08 - (SomaliNet) A human rights group said Thursday that the United States and other Western governments are ignoring clear evidence of war crimes by Ethiopia, a key U.S. ally that launched a military crac
  
• Sudan: Authorities investigate cause of jet crash that killed 30 at Khartoum airport
  2008-06-13 00:12:30 - (SomaliNet) Amid contradictory reports on whether technical failure or the weather were to blame, Sudanese authorities were on Wednesday investigating the causes behind the explosion of a jet carrying
  
• Ethiopia: US says \"persistently\" expressed human rights concern in Ethiopia
  2008-06-13 00:07:45 - (SomaliNet) Following an assertion by the monitoring group Human Rights Watch that the United States and key European countries have been silent on Ogaden rights violations, the United States said Th
  
• Djibouti: US citizens in Djibouti warned on travel near the border with Eritrea
  2008-06-12 09:01:14 - (SomaliNet) After the two countries exchanged fire, the U.S. Embassy in the tiny port nation of Djibouti, a key U.S. ally in the Horn of Africa, warned American citizens against traveling near the bor
  
• Djibouti-Eritrea: 9 Djiboutian soldiers dead, 60 wounded in clashes
  2008-06-12 07:40:45 - (SomaliNet) In three days of fighting between the Horn of Africa nations, border clashes between Eritrea and Djibouti have killed nine Djiboutian soldiers and wounded 60 others, a defence official sai
  
• Eritrea-Djibouti: Eritrea denies hostile intentions after Djibouti border clash
  2008-06-12 07:36:50 - (SomaliNet) Following a border clash in which two Djibouti soldiers were killed Eritrea denied any hostile intentions towards its neighbour Djibouti, in a statement received by AFP on Thursday. D
  
• Kenyans vote peacefully for five legislative seats
  2008-06-12 01:47:32 - (SomaliNet) In a test of stability after widespread election-related violence last year, Kenyans voted peacefully on Wednesday for five legislative seats that will decide who holds a majority in Parli
  
• Ethiopia: Gov’t committing war crimes in Ogaden-rights group
  2008-06-12 01:43:13 - (SomaliNet) In a report that complained the U.S. and other Western governments have remained silent about abuses, a rights group charged Thursday that Ethiopia’s government is committing war crimes in
  
• Sudan: Cholera infects 6 000 people in South Sudan, kills 44 in 2008
  2008-06-12 00:49:23 - (SomaliNet) Officials from the South Sudanese Health Ministry said on Wednesday that Cholera has infected almost 6 000 south Sudanese and killed at least 44 this year, with more than half dying within
  

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