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• Uganda: President Museveni extends official visit to Kenya
  2008-01-24 09:55:34 - (SomaliNet) In order to resolve a political dispute between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga over the December 27 presidential elections, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has
  
• Somalia: Five mortar shells lands near PM\'s residence, AU envoy unharmed
  2008-01-24 08:49:46 - (SomaliNet) Five mortar shells landed near the residence of Somalia\'s prime minister on Wednesday during a meeting with a senior African Union envoy, and two died in fighting elsewhere in the capital,
  
• Kenya: Kofi Annan meets Kenyan President
  2008-01-24 08:43:14 - (SomaliNet) As part of a mediation effort by the former United Nations secretary general to end the country\'s post-election crisis, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday held talks with Kofi Annan.
  
• Kenya: ECK denies rigging votes
  2008-01-24 08:40:30 - (SomaliNet) The Electoral Commission of Kenya on Thursday rejected claims it rigged December polls in favour of President Mwai Kibaki, touching off the country\'s worst political and security crisis in
  
• Sudan: WFP says bandits threaten food deliveries
  2008-01-23 09:38:30 - (SomaliNet) Banditry in Sudan’s conflict-stricken Darfur region threatened the distribution of food to more than two million people there, the UN World Food Programme warned on Wednesday \"So far
  
• Uganda: Rebels eager to restore peace in Uganda-South Sudan VP
  2008-01-23 09:33:48 - (SomaliNet) The Vice President (VP) of autonomous south Sudan said on Wednesday, that Ugandan rebels of the Lord\'s Resistance Army are ready to resume stalled peace talks with their country\'s governme
  
• Sudan: Rebels claim shooting down gov’t plane
  2008-01-22 23:08:10 - (SomaliNet) In the first attack from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) this year, the Darfur rebels said on Monday they had shot down a government plane that was bombing their areas in West Darf
  
• Kenya: Uganda rotary donates to Kenyan refugees
  2008-01-21 08:21:07 - (SomaliNet) Uganda Rotarians have donated relief items worth Shs6 million to Kenyan refugees. The relief items included food and assorted medical drugs. Mr Chris Mutalya, the chairman of Distri
  
• East Africa: Kenya railway suspends goods shipment to Uganda
  2008-01-21 08:13:32 - (SomaliNet) After furious protesters vandalised a section of the rail link on Friday, the Kenya-based Rift Valley Railways Company has suspended shipment of goods and cargo to Uganda. Mr Roy
  
• Uganda: Pilgrim arrested in Mecca over alleged theft
  2008-01-21 07:42:37 - (SomaliNet) The Uganda Hajj Mission has revealed that a Ugandan pilgrim to Mecca is being detained in Saudi Arabia for alleged theft. Under the Islamic law, or Sharia, he faces amputation of the
  

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