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• Ethiopia: Supreme Court sentences ex- ruler Mengistu to death for genocide
  2008-05-27 06:19:47 - (SomaliNet) After a 12-year trial, ex-Ethiopian ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam has been sentenced to death for genocide by Ethiopia\'s Supreme Court on Monday. Agencies said the Ethiopian court found
  
• Sudan: Gov’t deny press reports of approving Thai and Nepalese forces in Darfur
  2008-05-26 07:26:19 - (SomaliNet) The Sudanese government denied press reports that it has gave the green light to non-African units as part of the United Nations-African Union hybrid force (UNAMID) in Darfur. The dai
  
• Ethiopia: 25 killed in land clashes over past week
  2008-05-26 07:18:44 - (SomaliNet)An Ethiopian police spokesperson said on Saturday that at least 25 people have been killed in clashes over land between rival tribes in southwestern Ethiopia over the past week. \"Some
  
• Burundian army kills three rebels near capital –official
  2008-05-26 07:15:20 - (SomaliNet) Burundian officials said on Sunday that army killed three rebels near the capital over the weekend, the latest in a series of violent clashes in the central African nation. Local admi
  
• Burundi: Government, rebels sign “cessation of hostilities
  2008-05-26 07:10:45 - (SomaliNet) A joint statement by the Burundi government and the country\'s last remaining rebel group says the two sides have signed a \"cessation of hostilities.\" According to the statement, Monda
  
• Burundi: Fresh Burundi clashes alarm UN Security council
  2008-05-23 07:59:33 - (SomaliNet) Recent clashes between the Burundian army and National Liberation Forces (FNL) rebels have alarmed the United Nations Security Council, an official said. \"The members of the Security
  
• Kenya: Police arrests 19 people over lynching of 11 residents
  2008-05-23 01:40:43 - (SomaliNet) A police official said on Thursday police have arrested 19 people in a western Kenya village over the lynching of 11 residents - mainly elderly women - accused of engaging in witchcraft.
  
• Ethiopia: Ethiopian court sentences eight people to death for a grenade attack
  2008-05-23 01:38:14 - (SomaliNet) Local media reported on Thursday that an Ethiopian court sentenced eight people to death for a grenade attack that killed five people in 2007 in the Horn of Africa nation\'s restive Somali
  
• Ugandan Government does not want to crack down on the media- minister
  2008-05-23 01:35:29 - (SomaliNet) Information minister Kirunda Kivejinja has said the Ugandan Government does not want to crack down on the media. Kivejinja, addressing journalists at the Media Centre in Ugandan capit
  
• Sudan: Key member of rebel group which attacked capital arrested-gov’t
  2008-05-23 01:32:14 - (SomaliNet) The government has arrested a leading member of the rebel group that recently attacked the country\'s capital Khartoum, Sudanese state media said. State security arrested Abdelaziz Ush
  

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