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(SomaliNet) Uganda’s state minister for foreign affairs, Hon. Henry Okello Oryem has said Uganda has backed Rwanda’s application to the East African Community (EAC) as a means of improving diplomatic relations between the two countries.
"We support Rwanda’s
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(SomaliNet) A senior U.N. official was on Tuesday denied permission by Sudan Government to fly over the western region of Darfur on his way to visit Sudanese refugees in neighbouring Chad. Reuters reports.
The U.N’s Under Secretary-General, Jan Egeland has already been pr
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(SomaliNet) Supreme Court's decision to dismiss Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President, Dr. Kizza Besigye's petition seeking to nullify the February 23 Presidential Elections has Today Thursday has caused mixed reactions from citizens especially in the capital Kampala. Uganda
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(SomaliNet) Ethiopia's head of animal care at Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr. Sileshi Zewde said Wednesday that the final laboratory tests on birds suspected of having died of the H5N1 avian flu virus are negative. IRIN reported
"We were informed on Tuesday by
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(SomaliNet) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has taken over the chairmanship of the East African Community and has re echoed for the conclusion of plans to allow free movement of people and labour.
President Kibaki while addressing the heads of states summit at Arusha, said free movem
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(SomaliNet) Three more deaths have been confirmed among the 250 people who sank abode a Djiboutian boat carrying people on an annual religious pilgrimage, raising the death toll to 72 from 69, hospital officials said on Friday - Reuters.
The ship sank just as it had sailed 100 m
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(SomaliNet) The Chadian government has blamed Sudan of backing a rebel attack of an army base in its southeastern border region on Sunday with the aim of stunning presidential elections set for May. Reuters reported Sunday.
The Chadian Communication Minister, Hourmadji Moussa Do
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(SomaliNet) In a bid to help victims of drought in Africa where more than 40 percent of people are undernourished and thousands have died because of complications due to hunger, The United Nations has appealed for some $426 million for the exercise. AP reported Sunday.
The U.N
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(SomaliNet) A military plane carrying Kenyan political officials, police and religious leaders crashed in a town north of the capital killing some fourteen people including some government officials. Washington Times reported Tuesday.
According to wire reports, the plane which w
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(SomaliNet) The Kenyan government is being pushed by a Pan-African delegation of religious and civil leaders to pressurise Ethiopia to release thousands of people jailed for protesting last year's elections.
This call comes one week after the delegation met with Ethiopian Prime
