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• Sudan: Authorities expel two British security officers
  2008-10-06 08:53:03 - (SomaliNet) Accusing a pair of British security officers of injuring two Sudanese guards in an argument about a car parking space, Sudan has expelled two Britons, Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said on Sund
  
• Kenya: Swiss tourist fined $130 for calling police officers \"black monkeys
  2008-10-03 07:31:34 - (SomaliNet) The Daily Metro newspaper reported on Friday that a Kenyan court fined a Swiss tourist 10 000 shillings (about $130) for calling two police officers \"black monkeys.\" After being convi
  
• Tanzania: Gov’t authority to inspect shops over Chinese dairy products
  2008-10-03 07:22:21 - (SomaliNet) The Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA) said Thursday it was launching a shop to shop inspection to remove from the shelves all dairy products originating from China, just some few da
  
• Burundi: Albinos seek police protection after 3 killed
  2008-10-03 06:51:53 - (SomaliNet) After gangs killed three albinos for their body parts, albinos in Burundi have been forced to seek police protection, reports said. According to the BBC, four albinos were taken to a
  
• Kenya: Tension rising in north-west Kenya amidst massive influx of fleeing Somalis
  2008-10-03 04:09:33 - (SomaliNet) As a massive influx of Somali refugees fleeing a brutal insurgency across the border stretches the facilities to breaking point, tension is rising at the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp comp
  
• Tanzania: 19 children die in disco during Eid al-Fitr holiday
  2008-10-03 01:13:46 - (SomaliNet) Tanzanian officials said on Thursday that nineteen Tanzanian children aged between five and 12 suffocated and died in a crowded disco during a party to mark the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday
  
• Sudanese forces kill six heavily armed tourist kidnappers
  2008-09-29 03:37:02 - (SomaliNet) The Sudanese army said Sudanese forces on Sunday killed six heavily armed bandits who had kidnapped 19 European tourists and their Egyptian guides in a remote desert nine days ago. Ac
  
• Ethiopia: UN appeals for $460-million to feed 10-million Ethiopians
  2008-09-23 06:12:26 - (SomaliNet) The United Nations appealed on Monday for $460-million to feed some 10-million Ethiopians hit by drought and high food prices. Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN World Food
  
• Kenya: Locals kill 111-year-old woman ‘suspected’ of being a witch
  2008-09-23 05:52:11 - (SomaliNet) The Police in Kenya said on Monday that a centenarian woman was murdered in the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi by locals who suspected her of being a witch. \"We are investigating the
  
• Sudan: 4 Sudanese men accused of killing U.S. aid worker and his driver
  2008-09-22 01:45:06 - (SomaliNet) A court in Sudanese capital Khartoum heard on Sunday that four Sudanese men accused of killing a U.S. aid worker and his driver in a New Year\'s Eve attack were plotting to murder another f
  

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