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• Ugandan troops capture 12 Congolese rebels- spokesman
  2008-05-19 07:27:04 - (SomaliNet) A Ugandan army spokesman said on Monday the army captured 12 armed insurgents from renegade Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda\'s group as they crossed into western Uganda. The arre
  
• Ethiopia: 126,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition- UNICEF
  2008-05-19 07:21:25 - (SomaliNet) A recent drought in Ethiopia has caused a food crisis and estimates 126,000 children are suffering from severe malnutrition, the U.N. Children\'s Agency UNICEF says. However, the Ethio
  
• Ugandan rebels continue to rape, pillage- Human Rights Watch
  2008-05-19 07:17:15 - (SomaliNet) Human Rights Watch (HRW) demanding swift international action said Monday that Uganda\'s rebel Lord\'s Resistance Army (LRA) has recently gone on a new spree of abductions, sexual violence a
  
• Kenya: Aid group accuses Kenya of intimidating refugees out of camp
  2008-05-16 07:53:17 - (SomaliNet) The medical aid agency Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday that Kenyan government officials and police have used threats and intimidation to force displaced people to leave a ref
  
• Sudan: Four Indian nationals kidnapped in Sudan
  2008-05-16 07:45:03 - (SomaliNet) India\'s Ambassador to Sudan Deepak Vohra confirmed on Thursday that four Indian nationals were kidnapped by a group demanding better infrastructure for the oilfield area in Sudan. Voh
  
• Chad, Sudan leaders urged by AU chief to calm tensions
  2008-05-16 07:40:01 - (SomaliNet) In a bid to resolve growing tensions between the two countries, the head of the African Union, Jean Ping, held talks with the presidents of Chad and Sudan on Thursday. Ping,AU Commiss
  
• Sudan: UN says it evacuated 250 civilian staff from Sudan oil area
  2008-05-16 07:29:56 - (SomaliNet) Three days of clashes in the oil-rich region between Sudan\'s army and former southern rebels, the United Nations said Thursday it had evacuated 250 civilian staff from the town of Abyei fo
  
• Sudan: Thousands flee clashes in Sudan
  2008-05-16 01:29:09 - (SomaliNet) Local officials said Thursday that thousands of civilians fled clashes between Sudan\'s former north-south civil war foes in the oil-rich central town of Abyei. Reports say, the clashe
  
• Uganda: Two Ugandan students unhurt in deadly China earthquake
  2008-05-15 02:16:33 - (SomaliNet) Ugandan officials have confirmed that two Ugandan students escaped unhurt after their university buildings collapsed in the town of Chengdu in the devastating Chinese earthquake which kill
  
• Uganda: City doctor gang raped
  2008-05-15 02:12:05 - (SomaliNet) Thugs in the Ugandan capital Kampala’s suburb of Nansana recently robbed and gang-raped a woman doctor and dragged her out of her house, the Police said. In a separate incident, two
  

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