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• Kenya: Gang leader apprehended
  2007-08-23 12:34:19 - (SomaliNet) Police arrested a suspected leader of a Kenyan gang blamed for a string of shootings and beheadings this year, family members said on Wednesday. Njoroge Kamunya, who is in his mid-for
  
• Sudan: S.Sudan to empower tribal chiefs to judge untried prisoners
  2007-08-23 12:24:42 - (SomaliNet) A southern Sudanese official said South Sudan will empower tribal chiefs to judge thousands of untried prisoners filling the semi-autonomous region\'s overcrowded jails in the absence of ne
  
• Burundi: Senior opposition politician’s home raided by police
  2007-08-23 03:19:05 - (SomaliNet) After being accused of accused by the government of being behind a string of grenade attacks at the weekend, a senior opposition politician;s home was was raided by police in Burundi on W
  
• Sudan: Death toll from floods rises to 89
  2007-08-21 11:47:49 - (SomaliNet) As the European Commission announced it had distributed €2-million to those affected by the disaster The death toll from serious flooding in Sudan has risen to 87 people, government offic
  
• Uganda: Hundreds demonstrate homosexuality in capital Kampala
  2007-08-21 11:33:58 - (SomaliNet) Calling for the deportation of an American journalist who covers gay issues in the east African nation, hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda\'s capital on Tuesday. \"Ho
  
• Ethiopia: Four journalists released from prison
  2007-08-21 08:34:51 - New York, August 20, 2007—Four imprisoned Ethiopian journalists of now-defunct Amharic-language weeklies were released on conditional pardon on Saturday along with 27 opposition activists, according to news reports and local journalists.
  
• Tanzania: Gov’t rejects speeding up East Africa federation
  2007-08-20 14:22:45 - (SomaliNet) The fast-tracking of the East African political federation has suffered a major setback after Tanzanians overwhelmingly rejected the plan. The ultimate goal of the process was to have
  
• Uganda: Thousands rendered homeless by floods
  2007-08-20 14:12:32 - (SomaliNet) Torrential rains that have pounded Uganda’s regions of Teso, most sub-counties in the districts of Kumi, Soroti, Bukedea, Amuria and Katakwi in the past days and weeks have rendered thousa
  
• Sudan: Rebels announce return n to war-torn Western Sudan for unification
  2007-08-20 12:19:32 - (SomaliNet) In a bid to unify its armed wings into a single force, an Asmara-based umbrella group of Darfur rebel movements announced on Monday it would return to the war-torn western Sudanese region.
  
• Sudan: Gov’t intercepts attack plot – report
  2007-08-20 12:11:12 - (SomaliNet) Sudan’s state news agency SUNA said on Monday that the Sudanese governmet broke up a group of Sudanese plotting to attack the French, British, US and UN diplomatic missions in Khartoum, ca
  

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