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• Sudan: Al Jazeera journalist home after 3 years in Cuban prison
  2008-05-02 07:22:22 - (SomaliNet) After spending nearly six years behind bars at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a cameraman for Al Jazeera news network has arrived home in Sudan on Friday. Qatar-based Arabic news network, S
  
• Uganda: Two Ugandan guards abducted in Iraq
  2008-04-30 07:24:05 - (SomaliNet) Sources in Iraq informed Daily Monitor on Monday that the killing of an Iraqi civilian by a Ugandan guard two weeks ago may have caused the abduction of two of his colleagues. Mr Gilb
  
• Uganda accuses UN peacekeepers in DRC of supplying arms to rebel group
  2008-04-30 07:05:23 - (SomaliNet)Uganda on Tuesday accused UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo of supplying arms to a dormant rebel group that is re-grouping in the troubled central African state. The
  
• Sudan: Gov’t inks $396 mln deal with Chinese companies to build dam
  2008-04-30 01:28:53 - (SomaliNet) In an effort to increase its electricity production by 50 percent, Sudan has signed a $396 million deal with two Chinese companies to elevate a dam in its southeast. Power crisis is
  
• Burundi: Six rebels, one gov’t soldier killed in fresh clash near capital
  2008-04-30 01:25:13 - (SomaliNet) In fresh clashes over territory near Burundian capital Bujumbura, six rebels and a government soldier were killed Tuesday in Burundi, officials said adding that a severed head was found in
  
• Sudan: Dozens killed as Southern troops, Arab tribesmen clash in Sudan
  2008-04-30 01:11:50 - (SomaliNet) A government official said South Sudanese troops and Arab tribesmen clashed for four days in an oil-rich region in central Sudan, killing dozens of people. According to reports, the f
  
• Kenya: Guerrillas kill six, dump bodies in pit in western Kenya
  2008-04-30 01:08:20 - (SomaliNet) Officials in Kenya said Tuesday that guerrillas targeted by a military crackdown in western Kenya have killed six people and dumped their bodies in a pit. Local official Gideon Obwon
  
• Kenya: Police arrests 9 senior prison officials alleged to be behind warders strike
  2008-04-30 01:05:08 - (SomaliNet) Nine senior prison officials in Kenya were arrested by the Kenyan police over suspected involvement in last week\'s unprecedented nationwide warders strike, police officials said on Monday.
  
• Sudan: Gov’t releases US embassy containers, moves towards improving relations
  2008-04-29 01:42:09 - (SomaliNet)In what is seen as a move by Sudan towards improving relations with U.S, the Sudanese government decided to release containers belonging to the US embassy that were being held by custom aut
  
• Sudan: Darfur IDPs not counted in census due to their opposition – official
  2008-04-29 01:32:31 - (SomaliNet) Internally Displaced Persons would not be counted during the ongoing census operations due to their opposition to the fifth national census, a Sudanese official said. During the last
  

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