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• Sudan: Rebels agree on common platform for peace negotiations
  2007-08-06 11:40:45 - (SomaliNet) Sudan’s Darfur\' rebel groups agreed on a common platform on Monday for peace negotiations with the Sudanese government. Eight factions meeting in the Tanzanian town of Arusha \"pres
  
• Sudan: Over a thousand women freed-official
  2007-08-06 11:37:57 - (SomaliNet) A Sudanese official said on Sunday that Sudan has freed more than a thousand women and children from the south who had been jailed in Khartoum for brewing and selling alcohol, a crime und
  
• East Africa: Rwanda, Burundi trade shoots up
  2007-08-06 11:35:33 - (SomaliNet) A performance report monitoring at the port reveals that transit traffic bound for Rwanda and Burundi rose sharply at Mombasa last year, with indications that the total throughput will con
  
• Sudan, China sign pact to build $630 mln Mauritania railway
  2007-08-06 11:13:46 - (SomaliNet) Sudan\'s Danfodio Holding and China\'s Transtech Engineering have signed an agreement to build a 460 million euro railway linking Mauritania\'s capital Nouakchott with southern phosphate depo
  
• Kenya: Health minister condemns \'humiliating\' arrest
  2007-08-05 12:28:49 - (SomaliNet) In an open complaint, Kenya\'s health minister and highest-ranking female politician, Charity Ngilu, said on Sunday her brief detention by police last week for freeing an arrested activist
  
• Uganda: Top security panics as stolen explosive materials spark terrorism scare
  2007-08-05 12:22:11 - (SomaliNet) In what has thrown up Uganda’s top security chiefs in into a panic, dangerous radioactive materials often used by terrorists to manufacture bombs have been stolen from the country’s public
  
• Uganda: Gunmen attack oil team killing British geologist
  2007-08-05 12:11:14 - (SomaliNet) In a tragic incident, gunmen on Uganda’s Lake Albert attacked a barge (ferry) operated by Canada\'s Heritage Oil Corp. on Friday morning, killing a British geologist. The attack took
  
• Kenya: Cattle truck kills twelve
  2007-08-05 08:39:34 - (SomaliNet) A cattle truck lost control and plunged into a valley near Kenya’s northern town of Moyale, killing twelve people on Saturday, a local official said. Nine passengers travelling in th
  
• Tanzania: 10 killed by Cholera, 19 hospitalized
  2007-08-05 08:35:14 - (SomaliNet) A medical official in Tanzania said Saturday tat ten people died and 19 others were hospitalized after a cholera outbreak erupted in northern Tanzania. The medical officer in the coun
  
• Four more Ethiopian journalists sentenced; pardon anticipated
  2007-08-03 09:14:05 - COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS PRESS RELEASE Four more Ethiopian journalists sentenced; pardon anticipated New York, August 2, 2007—Ethiopia’s High Court handed down heavy prison sentences to fou
  

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