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AllAfrica News: East Africa
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Somalia: Multinational Force to Combat Pirates
The United States Navy has announced the formation of an international force to provide security in the dangerous shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden off the Somali coast.
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Sudan: Country in Danger of Splitting, Warns Report
Southern Sudan might break away from the north if the "troubled relationship" between Sudan's dominant centre and regions on its periphery are not resolved, a new report has warned.
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Uganda: Rebel Leader Still in DRC
LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony is in Garamba jungles and has not escaped the allies' snare to sneak into the Central African Republic (CAR).
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Sudan: U.S. to Help Airlift Darfur Equipment
The United States Africa Command, under the directive of President George Bush, will soon airlift Rwandan equipment meant for the Rwandan peacekeepers from Kigali to war ravaged Darfur in Sudan.
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Sudan: Pluses and Minuses of War Crimes Charges
Attempts to charge Sudan's leaders with war crimes in Darfur have dramatically changed the country's political scene, says a new report by the British think tank Chatham House.
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Uganda: New HIV Cases Alarm Doctors
DOCTORS have raised a fresh alarm over the rate at which Ugandans are becoming infected with HIV, especially married people.
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Somalia: Opposition Candidate Wins Puntland Presidency
A much-anticipated regional election in Somalia's self-governing State of Puntland ended peacefully on Thursday with the democratic election of Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed "Farole," Radio Garowe reports.
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Southern Africa: Region Takes Giant Step Toward African Economic Community
Three regional economic blocs have made a giant step towards the long-conceived goal of an African Economic Community, approving the expeditious establishment of an enlarged Free Trade Area (FTA) encompassing 26 Member States in three sub-regions.
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Sudan: Fifty Feared Dead in Rebel Attack
Fifty people were feared to have been killed and at least nine abducted in attacks on villages in southwest Sudan, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (in DRC), locals said.
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Nigeria: South South Leaders Seek Speedy Implementation of Report
South South leaders have urged Aso Rock to quickly implement the report of the Niger Delta Technical Committee (NDTC), headed by Ledum Mitee, which had recommended that a White Paper be issued on it by January 1.
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Uganda: North Leaders to Be Disarmed
LEADERS who were given guns at the peak of the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency are to be disarmed, a security committee has resolved.
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Uganda: Country to Benefit From World Bank $2 Billion Crisis Fund
UGANDA is to benefit from the World Bank's $2b (sh3,960b) facility for speeding up grants and long-term interest-free loans to help the world's poorest countries cope with the global financial crisis. Uganda is among the world's 78 poorest countries.
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Uganda: Organic Cotton Faces Bleak Market - Experts
A BLEAK market for organic cotton is making it hard to pay farmers high prices as promised, an official of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) has said.
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Uganda: URA Freezes Kamwenge Accounts
THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has frozen Kamwenge district local government accounts.
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Ethiopia: Government Liberalizes Radio?
The Ethiopian Government is best known for the tight control it has exerted over the political process of the country.
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