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• Uganda: Chronically poor will get $ 10 monthly allowance
  2007-08-11 02:52:40 - (SomaliNet) Officials said on Thursday that Uganda will pay a $10 monthly allowance to the country\'s \"chronically poor\" who live on less than a dollar a day. The $7,7-million program is being fun
  
• Kenyan: Court acquits 4 men accused of murdering British lady
  2007-08-11 02:26:25 - (SomaliNet) Four men accused of murdering a well-known British environmentalist and wildlife photographer at her home in Kenya\'s central Rift Valley were on Friday acquitted by a Kenyan court. Na
  
• Uganda: Human ashes found at Ugandan embassy in London
  2007-08-09 09:31:07 - (SomaliNet) A Ugandan parliamentary committee has revealed that human remains have been discovered in the basement of the Ugandan High Commission in London. Lt Saleh Kamba, MP, said that the ash
  
• Kenya: Gov’t criticised of failing to tackle cancer
  2007-08-09 09:26:48 - (SomaliNet) Despite the disease killing more people than Aids, the Kenyan Government has been criticised for failing to establish cancer treatment clinics. Mary Onyango, Kenya Breast Health prog
  
• Sudan: Darfur rebels claim shooting gov’t warplane
  2007-08-09 09:21:34 - (SomaliNet) Sudan’s Darfur rebels said on Wednesday they had shot down a government fighter bomber over the arid western Sudanese region, although it was not immediately possible to confirm the claim.
  
• Kenya: Press freedom body condemns media bill
  2007-08-09 08:42:07 - (SomaliNet) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki should block a bill that would force journalists to disclose their sources to the government; Press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders urged the presid
  
• Kenya: Nobel prize laureate wants stability ahead of polls
  2007-08-08 13:17:41 - (SomaliNet) Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai on Tuesday called for stability in the east African country ahead of general elections scheduled for December. Maathai called \"on all
  
• Kenya: President Kibaki leading in poll
  2007-08-08 13:17:04 - (SomaliNet) President Mwai Kibaki would get the most votes but not enough to win a second term if Kenya\'s presidential elections were held today, according to a poll released on Tuesday. The elec
  
• Sudan says the ICC has no authority in Darfur.
  2007-08-08 13:16:03 - (SomaliNet) After months of talks, threats and negotiations, the government finally agreed to a joint UN-AU 26 000-strong peacekeeping force in Darfur, but said most of the troops should come from Afr
  
• Sudan: Gov’t unhappy at some Darfur rebel demands
  2007-08-08 13:15:21 - (SomaliNet) Sudan\'s government is not enthusiastic about some elements of a joint Darfur rebel negotiating platform agreed during UN and African Union mediated talks, UN Darfur envoy Jan Eliasson said
  

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