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    KENYA MAY LOSE 600 MILLION IN TENDER January 22, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Kenyans risks losing about Sh600 million meant for constituency development projects if a multi-million shilling tender goes according to Government plans, a parliamentary committee claimed Friday. It has been revealed that Treasury officials wanted an expensive supp

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    ETHIOPIA: AP CORRESPONDENT ASKED TO LEAVE COUNTRY IN 24 HOURS January 22, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) In what has been described as "tarnishing the image of the nation, and repeatedly contravening journalism ethics." Ethiopia's Ministry of Information announced Saturday it was decided that Anthony Mitchell, the Associated Press correspondent in Ethiopia leave the coun

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    SUDAN: WORLD IS FAILING DARFUR SAYS UK’S BLAIR January 26, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday that the global community was failing victims in the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan. British Premier spoke about the need for a surge in African Union peacekeepers and said there would be no improvement in the

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    KENYA: WB CAUTIONS PRESIDENT KIBAKI ON CORRUPT MINISTERS January 26, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) World Bank (WB) on Wednesday put President Kibaki on pressure asking him to firmly deal with Cabinet ministers implicated in the Anglo Leasing scandal. Reports The Standard. Kenya’s Kibaki was urged by The World Bank to use the Code of Conduct for ministers to

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    ETHIOPIA: DOMESTIC TURBULENCE TAKES NEW TURN January 27, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Ethiopia continues to experience domestic violence leaving the life of citizens at a stake. While student protests continued in most parts of the country, the city of Addis Ababa was recently disturbed with bombings. An explosion in the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia arou

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    SUDAN TO GET $ US 10 MILLION IN HUMANITARIAN FUND FROM NORWAY January 27, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Sudan has is set to receive 65 million Norwegian kroner (10 million U.S. dollars) from Norway as a humanitarian fund that will be used to address the most urgent humanitarian needs in the country. A press release from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry revealed that t

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    SUDAN: GOVERNMENT ACCUSES CHAD OF ATTACK ON WEST DARFUR January 29, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Sudan has accused Chad of bombarding an area in its western border state of West Darfur and said its army had retaliated. This was reveled on saturday 28th. Sudan and Chad share a tense border and each country accuses the other of supporting rebel movements against

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    ERITREA: GOVERNMENT CRITICIZES US ON BORDER ROW January 29, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Eritrea’s Information Ministry published an editorial accusing Washington of siding with Eritrea's neighbour, ten days after a U.S. mediator said she had been barred from traveling to the border where a 1998-2000 war cost 70,000 lives. In the recent months tens

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    KENYA: WORLD BANK DELAYS $265 MILLION AID OVER CORRUPTION January 31, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Unless Kenyan government clears the pending corruption scandal, the World Bank will not clear delayed loans of $265 million to the country. This was revealed on Monday 30th. Upon approving $145 million to Kenya at a time when President Mwai Kibaki's government fac

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    ETHIOPIA: AMNESTY RAPS GOVERNMENT ON MANY ARRESTS February 1, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Amnesty International has said Ethiopia has arrested thousands of citizens majority being members of the Oromo ethnic group over the past three months. Students are among those who have been rounded up since November by Ethiopian Government. Amnesty said the arrests

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