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• Uganda: Amnesty says LRA rebels kidnap 350 people, calls on Congo, Sudan, and CAR to help
  2008-04-22 05:44:34 - (SomaliNet) Amnesty International, a human rights group on Tuesday called upon Congo, Sudan and Central African Republic to join forces to free more than 350 people kidnapped in recent weeks by Uganda
  
• Tanzanian: Key minister resigns amidst corruption reports
  2008-04-21 06:30:11 - (SomaliNet) A statement from Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete\'s office on Sunday said the president had accepted resignation of Tanzanian Infrastructure Minister Andrew Chenge. Reports said Che
  
• Ethiopia: Local, parliamentary polls held amid tight security
  2008-04-21 06:07:44 - (SomaliNet) Days after deadly blasts in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, the second and final day of voting in Ethiopia\'s local and parliamentary polls was held on Sunday amid tight security. A
  
• Sudan: Lift censorship of the independent press- Paris-based media watchdog tells gov’t
  2008-04-18 02:02:46 - (SomaliNet) The Sudanese government has been urged by Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders urged to lift its three month censorship of the independent press in the country and to abide
  
• Ethiopian Darfur peacekeeping troops receive $2mln logistical donation form U.S
  2008-04-18 01:57:39 - (SomaliNet) The United States Embassy in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa delivered logistical material worth 2 USD million to the Ethiopian peacekeeping troops participating in Darfur hybrid mission.
  
• South Sudan: Census body gets $ 3.5 million during the extra seven days-official
  2008-04-18 01:53:26 - (SomaliNet) The Central Bureau of statistics and census has approved the sum of 3.5 million dollars to cover the salaries of deployed enumerators, transport, and other operation cost to be incurred du
  
• Sudan: UN to cut monthly food supply in Darfur starting from next May
  2008-04-18 01:48:28 - (SomaliNet) Citing attack by armed bandits against its trucks, the UN World Food Programme announced today that it will cut monthly food supply in Darfur starting from next May. According to the
  
• Sudan: Authorities ‘prevent’ five private newspapers from publishing
  2008-04-18 01:43:54 - (SomaliNet) In the latest in a wave of censorship, Sudanese authorities prevented five privately owned newspapers from publishing on Wednesday, journalists said. Al-Sudani, al-Ahdath, Ajras al-Hu
  
• Eritrean migrant shot dead while trying to cross into Israel
  2008-04-17 08:14:14 - (SomaliNet) In an incident that brings to 11 the number of migrants killed at the border this year, an Eritrean migrant was shot dead by Egyptian police on Thursday as he tried to slip across the fron
  
• Kenya: Coalition cabinet sworn in on Thursday
  2008-04-17 07:48:14 - (SomaliNet) In an effort to appease fury over a disputed election that plunged Kenya into a bloody crisis, the East Africana nation swore in a power-sharing government on Thursday. \"Our people ar
  

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