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• Sudan: British Muslim leaders to meet president over jailed teacher
  2007-12-03 00:00:20 - (SomaliNet) In what raises hopes raising that Sudanese president may grant the early release of a British teacher jailed for allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed, two leading British Musli
  
• Uganda: Ebola death toll hits 18
  2007-12-02 23:55:50 - (SomaliNet) As authorities in Uganda struggled put a fresh outbreak of Ebola disease under control, two more patients died from the deadly virus in western Uganda, bringing the toll to 18, a health o
  
• Horn of Africa: US Secretary of State to visit Ethiopia amid growing border tension
  2007-11-30 06:07:46 - (SomaliNet) State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Africa and Brussels in early December. McCormack said rice will
  
• Sudan: Unknown attackers kill 4 aid workers in South Sudan
  2007-11-30 05:45:25 - (SomaliNet) Unidentified attackers killed four people in a Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) car in South Sudan on Thursday as they were fleeing a hospital after a local outbreak of t
  
• Sudan: Delaying peace process disappoints UN chief
  2007-11-30 05:37:18 - (SomaliNet) Obstacles holding up preparations for a peacekeeping force in Darfur and delays in Sudan meeting its commitments is disappointing the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, the UN chief said o
  
• Ethiopia okays joint humanitarian assessment in the Ogaden- UN envoy
  2007-11-29 04:07:23 - (SomaliNet) Ethiopia has agreed on a joint humanitarian assessment in the Ogaden region where the army is cracking down on rebels, the UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said on Wednesday. \"A joi
  
• Tanzania: Court delays striking workers’ case
  2007-11-29 04:03:09 - (SomaliNet) In landmark a case where a union representing striking worker of Canada\'s Barrick Gold Corp is seeking to prevent the firm from hiring new workers, a Tanzanian court has delayed hearing, a
  
• Uganda: South Sudan VP to visit rebel base over Otti
  2007-11-29 00:03:20 - (SomaliNet) Amid claims that Lord\'s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader, Joseph Kony, executed his deputy Vincent Otti, the Vice President of Southern Sudan, Dr Riek Machar, has said he intends to visi
  
• Rwanda: Jail terms for three Media Executives reduced
  2007-11-28 23:42:37 - (SomaliNet) The jail sentences of three former media executives convicted for inciting their compatriots to kill ethnic Tutsis were on Wednesday reduced by the United Nations tribunal dealing with the
  
• Sudan: British teacher charged with insulting Islam
  2007-11-28 23:31:52 - (SomaliNet) In offences that could see a British teacher flogged and jailed if convicted, Sudan charged the mother of two on Wednesday with insulting Islam and inciting religious hatred by allowing yo
  

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