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• Kenya: Ministers Deny Fuelling Post-Polls Violence
  Cabinet ministers accused by the official human rights watchdog of organising or funding the post-election violence have come out angrily protesting their innocence.

• Zambia: Calls For Caution on New President
  THE MMD in Lusaka has endorsed the candidature of Vice President Rupiah Banda as the presidential candidate in the forthcoming presidential by-election with more joining in the calls.

• Zambia: Govt Restricts Presidential Mourners
  THE Government has restricted the number of mourners to attend the Church service and burial of President Mwanawasa.

• Somalia: Refugee Surge Stretching Camp Facilities
  Maka Abullahi Keinan, 18, is among hundreds of refugees newly arrived from Somalia at Dagahaley, one of the three main refugee camps in Dadaab town in northeastern Kenya.

• Nigeria: Force Accuses Militants of Planning New Attacks
  The security Joint Task Force (JTF), code-named 'Operation Restore Hope', has alleged that the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) had concluded plans to unleash fresh wave of...

• Nigeria: Yar'Adua Moves to Second Hospital
  President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has been moved to the King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital in Saudi Arabia, where is currently recuperating after undergoing a surgery, Daily Champion can reveal.

• Ghana: Ruling Party Set for Sweep in National Poll
  If crowd attendance was only what it takes to win an election, Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) would have been declared winner of this year's polls long before the December 7 voting date.

• Africa: Will Upcoming Elections Offer Genuine Choices?
  Africa faces a spate of parliamentary and presidential polls before the end of the year.

• Ethiopia: Battling Malnutrition in the South
  Since June, Girara health centre in southern Ethiopia has been a hive of activity each Monday when health staff run the outpatient therapeutic clinic.

• Congo-Kinshasa: Calm Returns to North Kivu - UN
  Alan Doss, the top United Nations official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says calm has returned to Rutshuru in the country's volatile North Kivu province following last week's...

• Kenya: Govt to Import Crude Oil From Sudan
  Kenya has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Sudan to facilitate the importation of 500,000 barrels of crude oil monthly into the country.

• Tanzania: Railway to Zambia on Brink of Collapse
  All is not well at the Tanzania-Zambia Railways Authority (Tazara) and the railway line is now at the brink of collapse, East African Business Week has learnt.

• South Africa: Food Security Under Threat
  South Africans' food security - particularly the urban and rural poor, is under threat as they grapple with the highest food inflation rate in five years, according to the government's advisory body...

• Rwanda: Rights Body Criticizes Country's Justice System
  The Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its latest report entitled "Law and Reality: Progress in Judicial Reform in Rwanda" has severely criticized Kigali's legal system as not independent and needed vivid...

• Ghana: Gunshots Disrupt Electioneering
  There was pandemonium at the Jubilee Park in Tamale, yesterday, when unknown gunmen allegedly opened fire and succeeded in scuttling away supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who had turned...

• Ghana: Mixed Reaction to Aid Talkshop
  About a 1,000 delegates are expected to take up their seats tomorrow at a high level forum on the effectiveness of aid that opens in Ghana's capital, Accra. But their arrival has been met with mixed...

• Somalia: PM Survives No-Confidence Vote
  Interim Somali Prime Minister Nur "Adde" Hassan Hussein has survived a vote-of-confidence motion in Parliament, Radio Garowe reported Monday.

• Zambia: Voters Debate Succession to Mwanawasa
  In bars, coffee shops and on the streets, one topic dominates discussion in this sprawling resort town on the border with Zimbabwe: will Zambia's next president fit into the late President Levy...

• Uganda: Longest-Serving Traditional Leader Dies
  The Kyabazinga of Busoga Henry Wako Muloki, who died at 4a.m. yesterday at Mulago Hospital Cancer Institute in Kampala at the age of 87, was the longest-surviving traditional ruler in the country.

• Kenya: Ministers Keep Jobs Despite Graft Cases
  Three Cabinet ministers are among nine MPs from across the political divide who are facing court charges.

• Guinea: 'We Can Forgive, But We Have to Know the Truth'
  Kadiatou Diallo Sylla shares a shack with her family in Bambeto, a Conakry suburb. She is haunted by memories of her 14-year-old son, an only child: he was killed by the military during...

• Sudan: Juba's Cubans - a Special Diaspora
  Bona Bol's ambitions are even bigger than his 6 ft 5 frame. Together with his partner Majok Wek, he has already started a company importing goods into war-devastated Southern Sudan.

• Uganda: Shortage of Aids Drugs Persists, Says Ministry
  THE shortage of Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs in the country could be worse than earlier reported, according to the stock status of the health ministry's Anti-Retroviral Therapy programme.

• Ghana: Accra Agenda for Action - a Step Backwards?
  Ahead of the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF3), opening in Accra on September 2nd, representatives of civil society at a parallel forum have raised concerns that the HLF could...

• Nigeria: Yar'Adua Expected Home on Tuesday
  Barring any last minute development, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, who has been away for over two weeks after reportedly undergoing some medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, will be back to the...

• Kenya: Thousands From Somalia Pour Into Refugee Camp
  They are broke, hungry and on the verge of despair. Sleeping under trees at night with their children and waiting for handouts by the day to hold together their souls and emaciated frames. They can...

• Zambia: State Pours K46 Billion Into Polls Preps
  THE Government has released K46 billion to the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to prepare for the forthcoming presidential by-election.

• Nigeria: Mark, Bankole's Cold War Threatens Budget
  The delays experienced by the President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua administration in getting its budget passed by the National Assembly could worsen in the months ahead, THISDAY can report today.

• Somalia: Insurgent Commander Speaks At Mogadishu Press Conference 'In Person'
  One of Somalia's most brutal and well-known warlords held a press conference Monday in the national capital Mogadishu, speaking in public for the first time since the Ethiopian invasion of December...

• Sierra Leone: Questioning the Use of Aid
  Sierra Leone has been a major recipient of foreign aid since the end of a devastating 11-year civil war in 2002. But government, donors and citizens are all questioning how effectively this aid is...