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• Burundi: Army says it killed 50 fighters
  2008-05-08 08:37:23 - (SomaliNet) Burundi\'s army said on Thursday it had killed 50 fighters from the country\'s last active guerrilla group in clashes outside the capital Bujumbura. \"The Forces for National Liberation
  
• Sudan: Donors pledge $5 billion in aid to Sudan at Norway conference
  2008-05-08 01:37:01 - (SomaliNet) Participants at an international donors conference in Norway have pledged nearly $5 billion in aid to Sudan to help bolster a 2005 peace deal in the African nation. Hartwig Schafer, a
  
• Sudan: China will continue to assist Sudan –Chinese envoy
  2008-05-07 01:52:13 - (SomaliNet) China will continue to work closely with other parties concerned and try its best to provide support and assistance for the purpose of seeking a solution to the Darfur issue in Sudan, Chin
  
• Sudan tells donors it needs more aid to get out of longstanding conflicts
  2008-05-07 01:47:00 - (SomaliNet) Sudan told donor countries, at a meeting to boost peace efforts on Tuesday that they had not given enough cash to get the African country out of the grip of its longstanding conflicts.
  
• Sudan to seek $6 billion at donors\' meeting in Norway
  2008-05-06 08:39:30 - (SomaliNet) With already host nation Norway pledging it would provide nearly $500 million, Sudan will ask donor nations meeting this week for $6 billion over the next three years to help rebuild Afric
  
• Sudan: Donors, gov’t pledge to work for unity
  2008-05-06 08:28:23 - (SomaliNet)The government of Sudan and rich donor states pledged on Tuesday to support further implementation of a 2005 north-south peace treaty and to work to prevent the east African nation from bre
  
• Burundi: Rebels demand amnesty before going home
  2008-05-06 01:16:36 - (SomaliNet)Before they can accept a 10-day ultimatum from regional leaders to return home and implement a long-awaited peace deal, Burundi\'s last group of rebels said on Monday they wanted an amnesty.
  
• South Sudan: Minister\'s body, 5 others dead in plane crash arrive in Juba
  2008-05-05 08:12:19 - (SomaliNet) As hundreds of weeping relatives and top officials waited in Juba, the bodies of south Sudan Defence Minister Dominic Dim Deng and five others killed in a plane crash arrived on Saturday.
  
• Kenya: Jailed Kenyan says it will remain calm, awaits talks with gov’t
  2008-05-05 07:24:45 - (SomaliNet) A statement said on Monday that the jailed leader of a Kenyan gang blamed for a slew of murders and beheadings has said it will \"remain calm\" as it awaits talks with the government to end
  
• Sudan: UN Security Council votes to extend UN peacekeeping mission in southern Sudan
  2008-05-02 07:26:17 - (SomaliNet) Calling for demarcation of Sudan’s contested oil-rich border region between the north and south where recent fighting left dozens dead, The United Nations Security Council voted unanimousl
  

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