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• Kenya: Opposition leader finally named Prime Minister, coalition cabinet revealed
  2008-04-14 00:50:29 - (SomaliNet) Following a deal with the opposition to end the long-running political crisis, Kenya`s president has announced a new power-sharing cabinet. After the pair agreed the deal on Saturday in s
  
• Ugandan peace signing team quit Sudan-Congo border as rebel chief delay signing final deal
  2008-04-11 05:42:17 - (SomaliNet) After Uganda\'s fugitive rebel commander Joseph Kony delayed signing a final deal, Ugandan government negotiators quit peace talks on Friday. \"We are going back to Uganda until we are info
  
• Ethiopia: Biggest opposition pulls out of elections citing intimidation
  2008-04-11 05:13:38 - (SomaliNet) Accusing Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi\'s government of intimidating its supporters, Ethiopia\'s biggest opposition party in parliament pulled out of a round of local elections due n
  
• Eritrea: No need for U.N. peacekeepers at Eritrea, Ethiopia border- Eritrea\'s U.N. envoy
  2008-04-11 05:07:31 - (SomaliNet) Despite U.N. fears that a total withdrawal could spark a new war in the Horn of Africa, Eritrea\'s U.N. envoy said on Thursday he saw no need for U.N. peacekeepers to remain on its border w
  
• Kenya: Violence of power-sharing stalemate enters third day
  2008-04-11 02:08:28 - (SomaliNet) Since Tuesday, residents of Kenya’s Kenya\'s largest shanty town, Kiber, have vandalised the main Nairobi-Mombassa railway line to demonstrate against a lack of political progress in Kenya.
  
• Uganda: LRA chief postpones peace signing, requests for more time
  2008-04-11 01:31:29 - (SomaliNet) Ugandan’s Lords Resonance Army (LRA) rebel chief Joseph Kony, has failed to turn up at a remote location in south Sudan to sign a peace deal with the Ugandan government. The rebel lea
  
• Sudan: Gunmen attack AU, UN peacekeepers in Darfur
  2008-04-10 09:10:23 - (SomaliNet) For the first time, gunmen in Sudan have attacked police from the African Union and UN peacekeeping force in Darfur pistol whipping one officer in the back of the neck, a UN spokesman said
  
• Uganda: Rebel leader signs peace pact today- Southern Sudan VP
  2008-04-10 02:16:07 - (SomaliNet) The Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, hiding from arrest by the International Criminal Court, will on Thursday sign an historic peace deal in the jungle on the Sudan-Congo border, the top
  
• Kenya: More deadly riots amidst power-sharing stalemate
  2008-04-09 09:14:56 - (SomaliNet) As opposition leaders announced that they were suspending talks with the Kenyan government over a stalled power sharing agreement, riots erupted in Kenya on Tuesday. Dozens of young
  
• Sudan cancels planned visit by Dutch Defence Minister
  2008-04-09 08:59:22 - (SomaliNet) Without giving a reason, Sudan on Tuesday cancelled at the last minute a planned visit by Dutch Defence Minister Eimart van Middelkoop , a news source said.. The Sudan informed the go
  

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