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• Eritrea: Defense minister holds talks with Indian naval force commanders
  2007-09-04 09:01:47 - (SomaliNet) Eritrea’s Minister of Defense General Sebhat Ephrem, on Monday held talks with the commanders of 3 Indian Naval Force ships who are currently on a working visit to Eritrea. Accordin
  
• Ethiopia: Gov’t allocates $ 240 million for current financial year
  2007-09-04 08:48:14 - (SomaliNet) The Ethiopian government has raised the minimum wage and pension for public servants, saying it has allocated 2.2 billion birr (approximately US$243.6 million) to be paid out in the curren
  
• Sudan: UN boss Ban Ki-Moon warns Sudan on human rights issues
  2007-09-04 00:28:21 - (SomaliNet) After arriving on Monday to lay the groundwork for an end to the Darfur conflict through talks and deployment of thousands of peacekeepers, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gav
  
• Horn of Africa: Implement border ruling or risk sparking a \"new crisis\"- Eritrea warns Ethiopia
  2007-09-03 01:29:19 - (SomaliNet) Ethiopia must implement a border ruling or risk sparking a \"new crisis\", Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki said state-media reported on Saturday. The Eritrean president’s comments c
  
• Sudan: Rebels kill 40 people at the weekend
  2007-09-03 00:52:55 - (SomaliNet) In an attack earlier this week on a base for government forces in the neighbouring Kordofan region, Sudan\'s interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday, Sudanese rebels from war-torn
  
• Ethiopia: Ethiopian rebels announce ceasefire
  2007-09-03 00:50:09 - (SomaliNet) While a UN mission assesses their claims of human rights abuses in the remote eastern Ogaden region, Ethiopian rebels announced a ceasefire on Sunday. \"Effective immediately, armed fo
  
• Sudan: Soldiers deployed in oil filed to withdraw gradually- oil minister
  2007-09-03 00:47:01 - (SomaliNet) Sudanese Oil Minister Ahmed Awad al-Jaz said on Saturday that northern soldiers deployed in Sudan\'s vital southern oil fields will be withdrawn gradually. Meanwhile, the Sudanese army
  
• Sudan: Release opposition politician –Lawyers request
  2007-09-03 00:41:29 - (SomaliNet) In what the Sudanese lawyers say there was no evidence to link him to it, awyers they have requested the release of a Sudanese opposition politician detained over an alleged coup plot, a s
  
• Ethiopia: Gov’t to remove thousands of beggars from capital streets
  2007-08-31 04:16:24 - (SomaliNet) In a bid to create a more \"conducive\" atmosphere for coming Millennium celebrations, Ethiopia will try to remove tens of thousands of beggars from the streets of Addis Ababa city officials
  
• Eritrea: Eritreans fleeing authoritarian regime- Aid agencies
  2007-08-31 04:14:57 - (SomaliNet) Foreign aid groups have said a growing number of Eritreans are fleeing their authoritarian regime and joining in exile a previous generation who sought refuge from a long and deadly freedo
  

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