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• Kenya: Kenyan Muslims protest US backed torture
  2007-08-31 04:13:23 - (SomaliNet) In protest against what they called the illegal detention and torture of fellow Muslims in an anti-terrorist drive urged on by the United States, Kenyan Muslims marched on police headquart
  
• Sudan: Top UN official criticizes Sudan for sending off envoy
  2007-08-31 04:10:13 - (SomaliNet) A top United Nations (UN) official on Wednesday criticised Sudan for undermining an agreement on humanitarian access by expelling the country director of the large aid organisation CARE fr
  
• East Africa: Export bodies launch joint website on foreign markets
  2007-08-31 04:06:51 - (SomaliNet) In partnership with the Export Promotion Council of Kenya (EPC), the Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB) and the Holland-based Centre for Developing Countries (CBE), the Tanzania Board of
  
• Kenya: 20 killed as truck smashes into bus
  2007-08-30 03:44:42 - (SomaliNet) A large articulated truck smashed into a passenger bus in western Kenya killing twenty two people leaving several others injured, police and medics said Wednesday. Area police command
  
• Tanzania: New Cholera outbreak claims more lives
  2007-08-30 03:33:07 - (SomaliNet) A new cholera outbreak in the north of Tanzania has claimed two more lives, health officials said on Wednesday. \"Since the beginning of this week, the hospital has attended to 31 peop
  
• Rwanda: President Kagame meets Italian leaders in Rome
  2007-08-30 03:29:47 - (SomaliNet) Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday met with the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Hon Fausto Bertinotti at the Piazza Montecitorio in Rome. They discussed Rwanda’s
  
• Sudan: Canada to expel Sudanese diplomat in tit-for-tat move
  2007-08-30 03:04:06 - (SomaliNet) In response to Sudan’s decision last week to kick out the Canadian charge d\'affaires, Canada will expel a Sudanese diplomat, Ottawa said on Wednesday. Nuala Lawlor and the European Un
  
• Burundi: African Union requests last rebel group to return to truce team
  2007-08-30 02:57:28 - (SomaliNet) The chief mediator between Burundian government and the rebels said on Wednesday that the African Union has asked the last rebel group fighting the Burundian government to rejoin a truce m
  
• Sudan: Gov’t official lashes at UN appeal over ‘late’ emergency relief
  2007-08-30 02:48:52 - (SomaliNet) Saying the assistance was coming too late, a government official on Wednesday lashed out a United Nations (UN) appeal for emergency relief for flood victims in Sudan. Meanwhile, the U
  
• Sudan: Rebels claim seizing control of Sudanese army base
  2007-08-30 02:44:28 - (SomaliNet) A Sudanese Darfur rebel group said it seized control of a Sudanese army base in neighbouring Kordofan province on Wednesday. Khalil Ibrahim, Sudan’s Justice and Equality Movement (JEM
  

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