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• Uganda: Gov’t says Uganda is ready to Host Commonwealth Summit
  2007-11-19 02:37:15 - (SomaliNet) For the past two to three years, the government of President Yoweri Museveni has been preparing for the event which will bring together the Queen of England and 53 heads of government.
  
• Uganda: Somali rebels launch attack on Ugandan troop camp
  2007-11-19 01:47:39 - (SomaliNet) In an attack that triggered heavy fighting that left one insurgent dead in Somali capital Mogadishu, rebels launched an overnight attack on a camp of Ugandan troops in Mogadishu, African U
  
• Kenya: 7 people shot in violent party elections
  2007-11-19 01:42:21 - (SomaliNet) At least seven people were shot as violence and confusion marred party primaries to pick candidates for Kenya\'s December 27 parliamentary election and, local media reported on Saturday.
  
• Sudan: President Bashir “threatening and calling for war”-Ex southern rebels
  2007-11-19 01:38:17 - (SomaliNet) In a speech given by the Sudanese president in honour of a government-allied militia charged with a string of atrocities, former southern rebels accused Sudan\'s president on Sunday of \"thr
  
• Sudan: Two Sudanese journalists convicted over defamation
  2007-11-19 01:31:47 - (SomaliNet) In the latest clamp on the media, two Sudanese journalists have been convicted of publishing an article criticising security services for detaining four other journalists, their colleagues
  
• Sudan: AU envoy ready for peace talks between rebels, gov’t outside Libya.
  2007-11-16 06:54:19 - (SomaliNet) The African Union\'s Darfur envoy on Wednesday said he was prepared to conduct part of the peace talks between rebels and the government outside Libya. The concession could remove a si
  
• Burundi: President Pierre Nkurunuziza names new cabinet.
  2007-11-16 06:50:39 - (SomaliNet) In a bid to break a deadlock that has seen the opposition boycott parliament for months over accusations of human rights abuses and high-level graft,Burundi\'s President Pierre Nkurunuziza
  
• Kenya: Tribal fighters kill four in Kenya
  2007-11-14 23:42:55 - (SomaliNet) The latest in a series of murders aimed at ending a land distribution scheme they claim is unfair, tribal fighters in western Kenya have killed four people, an official said Tuesday.
  
• Tanzania: The European Commission to give Tanzania $794 million
  2007-11-14 23:40:03 - (SomaliNet) As part of an effort to help it boost trade, the European Commission (EC) will give Tanzania $794 million between 2008 and 2013, the EU office in Tanzania said on Wednesday. Tanzania,
  
• Kenya: Taiwanese ship freed by Somali pirates arrives in Kenya
  2007-11-14 23:29:55 - (SomaliNet) After being captured for five months, a Taiwanese fishing ship that was freed last week by Somali pirates arrived safely in Kenya on Wednesday, an official said. The Ching Fong Hwa No
  

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