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• Burundi: Security Council agrees on 1-year extension of UN integrated office in Burundi
  2007-12-20 08:28:54 - (SomaliNet) Urging Bujumbura to probe reports of continuing human rights violations, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday agreed a one-year extension of the mandate of the United Nations I
  
• Sudan: Aid groups urge UN to set 30-day deadline on UN-AU peace force
  2007-12-19 23:25:57 - (SomaliNet) In what they recommend that failure to comply Sudan should face sanctions, Aid groups urged the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to set a 30-day deadline for Sudan to stop obst
  
• Kenya: Some poll candidates grabbing land-Rights groups
  2007-12-19 23:20:38 - (SomaliNet) Some candidates in Kenya’s national election due next week have been accused by two Kenyan rights groups of land-grabbing and urged voters on Wednesday to scrutinise them closely. Acc
  
• Uganda offers to treat Ebola patients in neighbouring DRC
  2007-12-19 08:38:16 - (SomaliNet) After a suspected case was detected in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC)Uganda on Tuesday offered to treat Ebola patients from DRC. \"A patient fitting in the classical clinic
  
• Uganda: 17-yr-old girl gang-raped, murdered
  2007-12-19 08:25:24 - (SomaliNet) A 17-year-old girl, a Senior Six student of Nnalinya Lwantale Secondary School in Ndejje, Luweero district in Uganda , had gone to the area to attend a friend’s introduction ceremony on Su
  
• East Africa: Italian cargo ship owners deny attacking reports off Somalia
  2007-12-19 00:01:18 - (SomaliNet) The Italian owners of a container ship on Tuesday denied reports that it had been attacked by pirates off Somalia. The East African Seafarers\' Assistance Programme reported on Monday
  
• Kenya: Close polls as election date nears
  2007-12-18 23:51:25 - (SomaliNet) Nine days before the presidential election, Kenya\'s incumbent president and his main rival were neck-and-neck in two opinion polls released on Tuesday. In a survey conducted by the Am
  
• Kenya: Human rights group fears conflict will rock poll
  2007-12-18 10:02:53 - (SomaliNet) Just over a week ahead of elections predicted to be the closest race in the country\'s history, a human rights group said on Monday that election-related violence, voter intimidation and mi
  
• Kenya: 7 killed by Cholera in Western region
  2007-12-18 09:58:19 - (SomaliNet) At least seven people hasve been killed by a fresh outbreak of cholera which also infected 33 others over the past week in western Kenya, health officials said Monday, as authorities str
  
• Uganda: More 1, 500 Ugandan soldiers to be sent to Somalia
  2007-12-17 00:44:49 - (SomaliNet) As part of an effort to bolster the peace- keeping mission under the Africa Union Mission to Somalia (AMISON), a contingent of 1,500 UPDF soldiers will this month depart for Somalia.
  

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