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• Tanzania: Railway workers call off pay strike
  2008-03-14 07:43:38 - (SomaliNet) After the management agreed to raise the minimum wage, the Tanzania Railway workers Union (TRAWU) yesterday called off the nation-wide TRL workers strike. According to the deal, the T
  
• Sudan: Sudan rejects US criticism of human rights abuse
  2008-03-14 06:00:05 - (SomaliNet) Saying George Bush\'s administration was the biggest rights abuser in the world, Sudan rejected US criticism of its human rights record on Thursday. The African nation also said that
  
• Uganda: Japan gov’t allocates $ 5 million to post-conflict areas
  2008-03-12 04:29:17 - (SomaliNet) The United Nations Children Emergency Fund in Uganda has received $ 5 million from the Japanese government to boost the delivery of social services in areas of resettlement in Uganda.
  
• Uganda: ICC softens on LRA rebels
  2008-03-12 04:15:51 - (SomaliNet) International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked the Uganda government to furnish it with information on the competence of the proposed war crimes courts that would try indicted Lords Resistan
  
• Sudan: WFP short of money to supply food to Sudan
  2008-03-12 03:57:02 - (SomaliNet) The World Food Programme has not received any of the $77-million (about R 618-million) it needs to maintain its flights in Sudan in 2008, spokesperson Christiane Berthiaume told journalist
  
• Kenya: Prime Minister position raising eye-brows
  2008-03-11 08:52:33 - (SomaliNet) After the Head of the Civil Service revealed the structure of the new coalition government Monday, a storm is brewing over the powers of the Prime Minister. According to Mr Francis M
  
• Kenya: Parliament opens to debate power-sharing deal
  2008-03-11 08:25:47 - (SomaliNet) One day after the army used heavy firepower to crack down on a group linked to bloody land clashes, Kenyan parliament opened on Tuesday to debate a power-sharing deal to end the East Afric
  
• Sudan: Bandit attacks force WFP to halve food aid to Sudan’s Darfur
  2008-03-10 09:03:45 - (SomaliNet) Aid officials said on Monday that a surge of bandit attacks has forced the UN to halve deliveries of emergency food in Sudan\'s war-torn Darfur region. An increase in attacks on its ro
  
• Uganda: LRA lawyers to meet ICC officials
  2008-03-10 08:59:57 - (SomaliNet) In what they say is a move to push the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop charges against their leader which are a sticking point in talks to end the 21-year war, Ugandan Lords Re
  
• Rwanda: President Kagame announces cabinet reshuffle
  2008-03-10 03:37:38 - (SomaliNet) In a move which sees the appointment of seven new ministers, Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Saturday announced a major cabinet reshuffle, a statement from the presidency said. A sou
  

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