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• Eritrea: Country prepares to celebrate 7th World Diabetes Day
  2007-10-29 13:13:19 - (SomaliNet) Eritrea is preparing to celebrate the 7th World Diabetes day. Most people in our society think that diabetes is the disease of the rich only. However it is victimizing everyone with n
  
• Ethiopia: Lack of AU troops hindering Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia - Condoleezza Rice
  2007-10-29 13:09:17 - (SomaliNet) Ethiopia has not been able to withdraw from Somalia because the African Union (AU) has not been able to provide the peacekeepers needed to replace its troops , US Secretary of State Condol
  
• Kenya: Several roads to be shut as over 15 000 participate in International marathon
  2007-10-27 07:09:32 - (SomaliNet) As over 15,000 people take part in this year\'s Standard Chartered Nairobi International marathon, several roads in Nairobi will be closed on Friday and Saturday. Uhuru Highway betwee
  
• Eritrea: Sweden negotiates with govt for the release of journalist arrested 6 years ago
  2007-10-27 04:23:11 - (SomaliNet) This weekend marked six years since the Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak was imprisoned in his former homeland Eritrea. According to a news source, while he is still behind bars, Isa
  
• Kenya: Rights body says hundreds allegedly die in gang crackdown
  2007-10-26 12:50:39 - (SomaliNet) In a growing national controversy ahead of a presidential election in December, a rights group said on Thursday that police may have killed hundreds of people in a crackdown on Kenya\'s not
  
• Kenya: General elections slated for December 27
  2007-10-26 12:46:40 - (SomaliNet) Days after the Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki dissolved parliament, the electoral commission announced on Friday that Kenya will hold presidential and legislative elections on December 27.
  
• Sudan: Sudanese lawyer wins top EU human rights award
  2007-10-26 12:42:22 - (SomaliNet) As a recognition of his work in the war-torn region of Darfur, a Sudanese lawyer Salih Mahmoud Osman won the European Union\'s top human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, the European Parl
  
• Sudan: U.S. to sanction Sudan over UN -AU peacekeepers delay
  2007-10-26 12:34:04 - (SomaliNet) If Sudan continues \"dragging its feet\" over accepting a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force, the United States will consider further sanctions against the nation, a top U.S. official sai
  
• Sudan: Darfur rebels vow to launch more assaults on oil installations
  2007-10-26 12:22:56 - (SomaliNet) Unless the Sudanese government in Khartoum gives in to a string of demands, Darfur rebels vowed on Thursday to launch more assaults on oil installations across, including compensation for
  
• Eritrea, Morocco confirm participation at end-of-year race
  2007-10-26 12:18:21 - (SomaliNet) In a move that brings to five the number of countries that are already enlisted for the competition, Eritrea and Morocco have confirmed their participation at the 1997 edition of the end-o
  

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