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• Sudan: Thousand protestors chant slogans against Denmark over prophet cartoons
  2008-02-27 06:15:12 - (SomaliNet) In a government-backed rally protesting the publishing in Danish newspapers of a cartoon satirising Islam\'s Prophet Muhammad, thousands of Sudanese chanted slogans against Denmark on Wedn
  
• Kenya: U.S Secretary of State slams collapse of talks
  2008-02-27 06:14:21 - (SomaliNet) Warning there was no excuse for delay and that bilateral ties hung in the balance, U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday slammed the collapse of talks over Kenya\'s political d
  
• Kenya: Mediation talks halted as U.S threatens to act
  2008-02-27 06:13:36 - (SomaliNet) As the United States warned that it would take action against whoever obstructs the peace talks, mediation talks between the Government and ODM were suspended Tuesday. Chief mediator
  
• Rwanda: Japan donates Frw 137 million to local NGOs
  2008-02-26 06:56:07 - (SomaliNet) Japan has donated about Frw 137m to local Non Government Organisations (NGOs) channeled through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as a grant. A source said the grant w
  
• Kenya: Opposition threatens to resume protests from Thursday
  2008-02-26 06:54:06 - (SomaliNet) Should there be no deal in the on-going talks between Kenya’s feuding parties; the Kenyan opposition has threatened to resume protests from Thursday. On Monday, the talks to end Kenya
  
• Egypt: 13 killed as bus lands in canal in Cairo
  2008-02-26 06:48:21 - (SomaliNet) A microbus fell into a canal in Cairo on Monday killing thirteen people, security sources said. However, the cause of the accident was not immediately apparent, the sources said.
  
• Burundi: Police accuse rebels of killing three officers
  2008-02-26 06:45:30 - (SomaliNet) Burundian rebels were on Monday accused by policed of killing three officers during a shootout at the home of a government official in the Burundian capital Bujumbura. Dozens of figh
  
• Rwanda: Britain gives Rwanda US $ 15 million
  2008-02-26 06:36:24 - (SomaliNet) In contribution towards the ‘One UN’ Programme in Rwanda the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has announced a US$15 million. According to a UN statement, the head
  
• East Africa: Kenyan VP meets president Museveni in Uganda
  2008-02-26 06:32:26 - (SomaliNet) Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni on Monday held a meeting with Kenyan vice-president Kalonzo Musyoka at Ugandan State House Entebbe, during which they discussed the progress of the talks
  
• Kenyan: Leaders to resume power-sharing talks
  2008-02-25 08:07:03 - (SomaliNet) As part of an effort to end the political crisis in the east African state that has sparked violence which has claimed over one thousand lives, Kenyan leaders were due on Monday to resume
  

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