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    GHANA: PRESIDENT PUSHES FOR ONE MORE YEAR March 28, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Ghana's president, John Agyekum Kufuor is pushing for the extension of the four year presidential term to five years. This was revealed by Kwabena Agyapong, Ghana's president Press Secretary after a press conference on Monday. Kufour will push for this extension th

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    LIBYA: ECLIPSE ATTRACTS THOUSANDS March 28, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Libya expects a solar eclipse today ( Wednesday). This has boasted Libya's Tourism sector because it has attracted thousands of tourists from all over the world. This is the most tourist attracting event Libya has ever witnessed. This is according to Ahmed Aziz from

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    NAMIBIA: CITY AUTHORITIES TO BUY FLOODED HOMES March 28, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Authorities from the city of Windhoek, Namibia have offered to buy the homes of those affected by the January floods. This was revealed by the City's spokesperson, Ndangi Katoma. This is an effort to settle the dispute between the affected residents and the city au

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    NIGERIA: GOVERNOR CALLS FOR CALM DURING ECLIPSE March 28, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Olusegun Agagu, governor of Nigeria's Ondo State has called for calm during the time Nigeria will be experiencing an eclipse today ( Wednesday). Nigerians are encouraged to keep law and order and to realise that the eclipse is natural and thus should not be welcomed

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    LIBERIA: CHURCH OFFICIALS AT THE DEFILEMENT GAME AGAIN March 28, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Officials from the "Never Die" Church in Liberia are reportedly having sex with four under age girls. Joseph Sagbe, a detective of the Liberia National Police says that the victims are aged 7,9,10 and 11 years. The accused include Wisdom Counselor, Living Counselor

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    RWANDA: $ 7 MILLION LOST IN IMPOUNDED PLANE IN BELGIUM March 29, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) The impounded cargo airliner, the Silverback, in Belgium seven months ago for alleged non-compliance of flight standards caused the company a loss of 7 million U.S. dollars. Rwandan Civil Aviation Authority revealed. The General Manager of Silverback Cargo Freighters

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    BURUNDI: UN LEGAL EXPERT TO KICK OFF TALKS ON JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION March 29, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) In a bid to help set up a truth and reconciliation commission and a special tribunal for human rights abuses committed during the country's 12-year long civil war in Burundi, the top United Nations legal expert is leading a mission of high-level UN officials to negotiat

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    SOMALIA: 1.5 MILLION LIVES THREATENED BY DROUGHT-SAYS BRITISH CHARITY March 29, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) A British charity, Christian Aid, has warned that some 1.5 million people face the threat of starvation in crisis-torn Somalia. Christian Aid said it had received reports of people dying of thirst and others being driven to drinking their own urine to surviv

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    RWANDA: PRESIDENT KAGAME INVITED FOR EAC SUMMIT March 30, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Rwandan president, Paul Kagame has been invited to attend the forthcoming seventh East African Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit scheduled to take place in Arusha-Tanzania on April 5. New Times Reported The East African Community issued a press release on Thursd

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    BENIN: PRESIDENT-ELECT, TO BE SWORN IN APRIL 6 March 31, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Benin President-elect Yayi Boni is to be sworn in the country's political capital, Porto-Novo on April 6th, for a five-year mandate, the Constitutional Court said Wednesday. The Court's chair, Conceptia Ouinsou said no petition had been filed by any of the other cand

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