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• Kenya: Hundreds protest against size of coalition government
  2008-04-02 07:06:58 - (SomaliNet) As pressure mounted on the Kenyan president and prime minister-designate to name a cabinet, Kenyan police on Tuesday fired teargas at hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the propo
  
• Sudan: President al-Bashir invited to attend U.N summit in U.S
  2008-04-02 06:52:58 - (SomaliNet) Sudan\'s U.N. envoy said on Tuesday that Sudan\'s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has received an invitation to attend a summit meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York later this mo
  
• Tanzania: 50 people feared dead as floods sweep remote mine site
  2008-04-02 01:03:24 - (SomaliNet) After floods sweeping through a remote gemstone mine in Northern Tanzania, sixteen miners have been confirmed dead and 49 others were feared killed in, a senior government official said on
  
• Sudan-backed rebels violate March peace accord -says Chad
  2008-04-01 06:36:17 - (SomaliNet) After crossing the border in violation of a peace accord signed last month, rebels acting under orders from Sudan\'s government attacked an eastern town on Tuesday, Chad said. \"Today,
  
• Kenya: Seven dead as heavy rains displace thousands
  2008-04-01 04:46:44 - (SomaliNet) Heavy rains have left at least seven dead and thousands homeless in Kenya, marking the start of the wet season, police said on Monday. According to a police source, two children died
  
• Uganda: Rebel leader heads to Sudan border to ink final deal with gov’t
  2008-03-31 09:11:09 - (SomaliNet) Western diplomatic sources have said Uganda’s Lord\'s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader, Joseph Kony, is walking to the Sudan-Congo border to sign a final peace deal this week with the Gov
  
• Kenya: President Kibaki summons cabinet as coalition gov’t stalemates
  2008-03-31 09:08:01 - (SomaliNet) Kenyan President Kibaki has summoned a Cabinet meeting Monday morning where he is expected to spell to his team the hard options he has to take. Meanwhile, the Kenyan leader is faced
  
• Tanzania: Rescuers search over 60 miners trapped for three days
  2008-03-31 09:04:37 - (SomaliNet) As hopes dwindled of finding any survivors, Tanzania rescuers dug through sludge and rock on Monday in their search for dozens of miners trapped for three days in northern Tanzania, police
  
• Ethiopia: Two prisoners of conscience freed
  2008-03-28 13:28:17 - Amnesty International today welcomed the release of human rights activists Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, who had been detained in Ethiopia
  
• Sudan: Three World Food Programme divers killed
  2008-03-27 04:13:29 - (SomaliNet) Over the past week, bandits killed three drivers from the U.N. World Food Programme in separate attacks in Sudan\'s war-stricken western Darfur region and in its south, the agency said on W
  

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