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• Tanzania: Gov’t bans solidarity rally with Kenya’s Odinga
  2008-01-05 06:29:00 - (SomaliNet) A Tanzanian senior police official said the government banned a rally planned on Saturday by opposition parties in solidarity with Kenya\'s defeated presidential challenger Raila Odinga.
  
• Kenya: Re-elected Kibaki open to coalition – South African Nobel laureate
  2008-01-05 06:23:24 - (SomaliNet) South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu said on Friday that President Mwai Kibaki is open to the idea of a coalition government to break political deadlock and end turmoil after Kenya\'s
  
• Kenya: Curfew lifted in western Kenyan city as security improves
  2008-01-05 06:14:09 - (SomaliNet) Following an improvement in the security situation, a curfew slapped on the western Kenyan city of Kisumu earlier this week has been lifted, police said on Saturday. \"The curfew was l
  
• Kenya: \'I\'m not sure who won\' -Electral Commission chief
  2008-01-02 08:45:41 - (SomaliNet) Kenya\'s elections chief on Wednesday cast doubt on the outgoing president\'s re-election win, three days after declaring Mwai Kibaki winner of Kenya\'s presidential poll. \"I do not kno
  
• Sudan: Authorities question slaying of an American diplomat
  2008-01-02 08:38:25 - (SomaliNet) witnesses were on Wednesday questioned by Sudanese authorities in the slaying of an American diplomat who was shot by gunmen in a driveby attack in the capital. A source said Sudanes
  
• Kenya: Defeated Odinga calls for demonstration as re-elected president vows to deal with rioters
  2008-01-01 06:46:18 - (SomaliNet)As riots over allegedly rigged elections flared across the country, Kenya\'s defeated presidential challenger Raila Odinga on Monday called for \"peaceful mass action\" . \"We are calling
  
• Kenya: Election violence claims over 150 lives in Kenya
  2008-01-01 06:41:59 - (SomaliNet) The death toll from election violence in Kenya has hit 185 on Monday as brutal unrest continues across Kenya over President Mwai Kibaki\'s re-election. According to news sources, polic
  
• Sudan: Hybrid keeping force begins work in Darfur
  2008-01-01 06:35:25 - (SomaliNet) A new hybrid African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission, which has struggled to stem nearly five years of brutal conflict in the weste
  
• Sudan: US embassy driver killed in gun attack
  2008-01-01 06:32:14 - (SomaliNet) A US embassy driver was killed in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum in a gun attack which also an embassy official, the embassy said on Tuesday \"An American was wounded and a Sudanes
  
• Sudan: Gov’t accuses Chadian aircraft of bombing Darfur
  2007-12-30 10:24:49 - (SomaliNet) In what Sudan called \"repeated aggressions\" by its western neighbour, Sdudan has accused Chadian aircraft of bombing western Darfur region. Meanwhile, relations between the two Africa
  

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