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DRC: Approve more 3,000 peacekeepers in eastern Congo-UN chief
Wed. November 05, 2008 08:43 am. - (SomaliNet) The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to approve a "surge" of more than 3,000 troops and police to help prevent a full-scale war from erupting in eastern Co Read More...

Cameroon: Gov’t official says court jails elephant poacher for 5 years
Wed. November 05, 2008 08:32 am. - (SomaliNet) A government official said on Tuesday that a Cameroon court sentenced a poacher to five years in jail and a hefty fine for killing eight elephants. The official said after a tip-off f Read More...

South Africa: Court to hear Zuma graft appeal this month
Wed. November 05, 2008 08:26 am. - (SomaliNet) Saying the South African state would be ready, a spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, which has spearheaded the case against Zuma, confirmed a media report that the court in B Read More...

DRC: Rebel leader threatens war unless gov’t agrees to talks
Wed. November 05, 2008 08:02 am. - (SomaliNet) Unless the government agreed to talks on the country's future, Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda threatened on Tuesday to take his eastern guerrilla war westwards to the capital Kinsha Read More...

Indonesia: Bomb attackers threaten two embassies in Indonesia
Wed. November 05, 2008 06:02 am. - (SomaliNet) Ahead of the execution of three of the perpetrators of the 2002 Bali bomb attacks in Indonesia, there is increasing unrest. After receiving a text message threatening attacks on the Read More...

DRC: UN warns of humanitarian disaster in DRC
Tue. November 04, 2008 02:04 pm. - (SomaliNet) The first UN aid convoy has arrived in rebel-controlled North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting, many o Read More...

Southern Africa: Cholera kills some 40 people, mostly children
Tue. November 04, 2008 01:04 pm. - (SomaliNet) Health officials said on Monday that about 40 people, mostly children, have died from cholera in Mozambique's central Manica province, and nine people have died from an outbreak of the di Read More...

Zimbabawe: Botswana President calls for Zimbabwean presidential rerun
Tue. November 04, 2008 12:55 pm. - (SomaliNet) As "one viable way forward" to get Zimbabawe out of its political crisis, Botswana President Ian Khama on Monday called for an internationally supervised rerun of the presidential poll in Read More...

Zambia: I have not lost this election, says opposition contestant Sata
Tue. November 04, 2008 12:50 pm. - (SomaliNet) Michael Sata, Zambia's opposition leader on Tuesday again rejected ruling party Rupiah Banda's victory in last week's presidential by-election, setting the stage for a protracted political Read More...

Nigeria: Gunmen abduct prominent Nigerian doctor
Tue. November 04, 2008 12:47 pm. - (SomaliNet) Police said on Tuesday that gunmen have kidnapped a prominent Nigerian doctor from his home in the southeastern Nigerian state of Anambra. "Dr Tochukwu Mbachu, the Anambra state chair Read More...

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