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• Uganda: Police arrests three gay demonstrators at AIDS conference
  2008-06-05 01:04:59 - (SomaliNet) Three gay rights demonstrators who stormed a major AIDS conference in Ugandan capital Kampala in protest at the government\'s stance on homosexuality, which is banned in the east African na
  
• Sudan: Military build-up of disputed oil region threatens peace deal
  2008-06-05 01:00:41 - (SomaliNet) Heavy military build-up on both sides of Sudan\'s disputed oil region of Abyei is causing serious concern that the fragile north-south peace deal may be in danger. Last week, Sudanese
  
• Sudan: Pull back troops from oil-rich border region, South Sudan leader tells gov’t
  2008-06-04 04:05:28 - (SomaliNet) Sudan’s president was on Tuesday urged by leader of Sudan\'s troubled South to pull back government troops in a contested oil-rich border region between the north and south that has been th
  
• Ethiopia: 16 cooking oil factories closed after oil killed eight
  2008-06-04 03:24:31 - (SomaliNet) After eight people were killed and scores sickened by food cooked with contaminated oil, authorities closed 16 cooking oil factories in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday. E
  
• Burundi: EU applauds return of rebel leader
  2008-06-04 02:59:40 - (SomaliNet) Urging his followers to pursue the peace process constructively, the European Union hailed on Tuesday the return to Burundi of its last Hutu rebel leader. The EU said in a statement t
  
• S. Sudan: Gov’t accuses Khartoum of reinforcing troops in Abyei
  2008-06-04 02:53:59 - (SomaliNet) In what raised tensions as UN Security Council envoys flew in to shore up a north-south peace deal, South Sudan\'s leader accused the northern government on Tuesday of reinforcing troops in
  
• Sudan: US suspends talks with Sudan saying rebels not serious
  2008-06-04 02:45:10 - (SomaliNet) Saying leaders from the north and south were not serious about ending clashes in an oil-producing region that have stoked fears of a return to civil war, the United States suspended talks
  
• Sudan: Japanese troops expected to help with humanitarian, construction work-president
  2008-06-02 08:01:46 - (SomaliNet) Omar al-Beshir, Sudanese President said Friday that he expects Japanese troops to help with construction and humanitarian activities in his country, but not peacekeeping operations. \"
  
• Uganda: HIV/AIDS prevention drive won’t involve gays-gov’t
  2008-06-02 07:53:41 - (SomaliNet) Saying that Uganda is short of funds, the government said on Monday it would not focus any of its HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programmes on outlawed homosexuals. \"Gays are on
  
• Sudan: Gov’t orders closure of all Eritrean opposition offices
  2008-06-02 07:46:58 - (SomaliNet) Sudan state-owned Sudanese Media Centre news agency said Sudan has ordered the closure of all Eritrean opposition offices in the country and a halt to their activities against the governme
  

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