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• Kenya woman, daughter beaten to death in Marietta, Georgia
  2007-08-08 12:37:40 - (SomaliNet) According to a newspaper report, authorities said a Kenyan immigrant and her two daughters, found slain last week in the US state of Georgia, had been beaten to death. Jane Gakuny Ku
  
• Ethiopia: Gov’t troops killed 200 rebels-Defense ministry
  2007-08-08 12:36:34 - (SomaliNet) Ethiopia\'s defence ministry on Tuesday said government troops had killed 200 rebels and captured hundreds in the restive predominantly Somali southern region of Ogaden over the past month.
  
• Ethiopia: Troops kill 1 after grenade attack amid weapons search in Somalia
  2007-08-07 10:41:31 - (SomaliNet) Ethiopian troops conducting a house-to-house search for weapons opened fire Monday, killing one civilian, after gunmen threw hand grenades at soldiers, witnesses said. Somalia\'s frag
  
• Horn of Africa: UN Envoy seeks to breathe life into Somali peace talks
  2007-08-07 10:34:15 - (SomaliNet) In a bid to rejuvenate peace talks that have been clouded by a deadly insurgency. The United Nations envoy to Somalia on Tuesday went to Mogadishu. Francois Lonseny Fall told
  
• Uganda: Seven die after canoe capsizes in Lake Victoria
  2007-08-07 10:28:56 - (SomaliNet) After a canoe they were travelling in capsized in the midst of a fight on board, seven people on Friday drowned in Lake Victoria. The dead were four Beach management Unit officials an
  
• Uganda: Uganda, Malaysia in a joint oil venture
  2007-08-07 10:26:05 - (SomaliNet) According to a statement from Uganda’s State House, Uganda and Malaysia have agreed to enter a joint venture in the production and refinery of oil. The agreement was reached at a mee
  
• Uganda: Congolese army releases 4 Ugandan soldiers
  2007-08-07 10:24:05 - (SomaliNet) After being captured on Lake Albert on July 29, Congolese army yesterday afternoon released the four UPDF soldiers. The commanders in eastern Congo also acknowledged that their troop
  
• East Africa: Kenya, Uganda cargo congesting port-report
  2007-08-06 11:49:44 - (SomaliNet) A recent study carried out the by the Kenya Ports Authority shows that containers bound for Kenya and Uganda take the longest period at the Mombasa port container terminal, contributing he
  
• Sudan: UN Darfur force plans may backfire-UN officials fear
  2007-08-06 11:46:52 - (SomaliNet) United Nations officials in Sudan fear that the hasty plan to send a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force to Darfur, approved by the Security Council last week, will backfire because its manda
  
• East Africa: 3 economies begin to converge-EADB
  2007-08-06 11:43:14 - (SomaliNet) The East African Development Bank has said economies of the original member states of the East African Community post modest achievements during 2006 in their convergence efforts. Ken
  

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