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(SomaliNet) A power interconnection project agreement was Friday signed between Ethiopia and Djibouti enabling Ethiopia to supply electric power to Djibouti.
The project which will cost some 535 million birr (61.64 million U.S. dollars), is expected to be finalized in 2009.
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(SomaliNet) Sudanese Islamist leader said Friday in an interview that Muslim women should be free to marry Christian or Jewish men, defying the consensus among conventional Muslim jurists.
Hassan Turabi said that he came to this conclusion after hearing of a married American wom
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(SomaliNet) A new specialised cargo service meant to transport pharmaceutical products across Africa has been launched by Kenya Airways, being the first airline in Africa to offer the service. Reuters reported Tuesday.
The KQ Pharma Service will include warehousing and the use of
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(SomaliNet) Some 27 cases of cholera have been reported in Uganda’s northern district of Kitgum, leaving five people in the hospitals. Xinhua reported Tuesday.
Kitgum’s Chairman, Nahaman Ojwe said Tuesday that the outbreak was noticed on April 19 after five people c
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(SomaliNet) In an effort to waive the burden of Malaria, the Ethiopian government has launched a five-year malaria treatment and prevention plan, which will cost of US $447 million, the health ministry has said, IRIN, repored Tuesday.
The plan is intended to provide early diagno
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(SomaliNet) Talks over disputed border between Ethiopia and Eritrea scheduled to start in London on Friday have been postponed to May, as the head of an independent boundary panel was ill. Ethiopia said on Friday.
Both, Ethiopia and Eritrea who fought a 1998-2000 war, had agree
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(SomaliNet) Uganda's Information state minister Nsaba Buturo said yesterday Thursday that some thirty heads of State and government are to attend the swearing-in and inauguration of President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda for his next term of office on May 12, 2006, New Times reports.
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(SomaliNet) Some 28 people, who are missing after a ferry carrying passengers and cargo on East Africa's Lake Victoria capsized a week ago, are feared dead, police said Friday. AP reported.
The MV Nyamanga was heading from the western port city of Bukoba to Mwanza on the sou
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(SomaliNet) Following rebels' suspicion about the draft deal and refusal to sign it, The African Union (AU) deferred an April 30 deadline for rival parties in Sudan's Darfur conflict to agree peace, IRIN reports.
"The AU has extended the deadline of the peace talks by 48 hours a
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(SomaliNet) Following government's announcement that last year's weapons amnesty had failed, the Kenyan army has begun a massive operation to disarm cattle raiders and six districts in the west are being targeted.
Due to a clouding fear that the disarmament could end in violence
