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Djibouti’s government said it believes rallies by political parties are a pre-requisite for free and fair elections and that a violent demonstration last week by opponents of the state was hijacked by “trouble-makers.”

February 22nd Dunidda \ Africa A suicide car bomb by rebels who profess loyalty to al Qaeda killed at least 17 people near a police training camp in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, and police forecast the death toll would rise.

February 22nd Dunidda \ Africa Brussels, 21 February 2011: If Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) - incompetent, corrupt and hobbled by weak leadership - does not reform within six months, the international community should withdraw support and concentrate on more effective local administrations.

February 21st Dunidda \ Africa Scores of people have been reported killed in continuing violence in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, amid escalating protests against Muammar Gaddafi's 40-year rule across the north African nation.

February 20th Dunidda \ Africa Djibouti authorities have 'provisionally released' three top opposition leaders briefly detained after unprecedented protests demanding regime change, the state prosecutor says.

February 19th Dunidda \ Africa KAMPALA, Uganda -(Dow Jones)- Plans by the Ugandan opposition Interparty Coalition, or IPC, to tally and announce own presidential and parliamentary poll results have been hampered by the breakdown of their SMS software system, the IPC announced Saturday.

February 19th Dunidda \ Africa DJIBOUTI — Djibouti's interior ministry on Saturday accused opposition demonstrators of violence and vandalism, a day after an unprecedented anti-regime protest ended in clashes with the police.

February 18th Dunidda \ Africa DJIBOUTI — Djibouti police firing tear gas clashed Friday with demonstrators who turned out in their thousands in an unprecedented protest to demand the departure of President Ismael Omar Guelleh, an AFP reporter said.

February 18th Dunidda \ Africa DUBAI — Here are Friday's developments in the unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa following uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia that toppled their longtime rulers.

February 18th Dunidda \ Africa Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the tiny East African nation of Djibouti on Friday to demand that the president step down after two terms, the latest in a series of rallies modeled after political demonstrations across Africa and the Middle East.

February 18th Dunidda \ Africa Uganda has ordered phone companies to intercept text messages with words or phrases including "Egypt", "bullet," and "people power" ahead of Friday's elections that some fear may turn violent.

February 16th Dunidda \ Africa Judge cites need for deterrence in issuing the long prison sentence to teenager who attacked a US-flagged ship in 2009 A teenage Somali pirate who attacked a US-flagged ship in 2009 has been sentenced to more than 33 years in prison.Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was charged with kidnapping,

February 16th Dunidda \ Africa About a month to voting day on February 18, an opinion poll suggests that President Museveni is the favourite candidate with Kizza Besigye in second, although it also reports that very many Ugandans feel they cannot talk freely about politics.

February 16th Dunidda \ Africa Fifty-one illegal Somali immigrants died after a boat transporting them sank off the coast of northern Mozambique 10 days ago, police said on Tuesday. "There were 51 deaths, 50 Somalis and the captain of the boat," police spokesman Pedro Cossa told journalists, saying the boat sank off the Suhavo Island in Cabo Delgado.

February 15th Dunidda \ Africa The Algerian government has said it will end its 19-year-old state of emergency "within days". Mourad Medelci, the foreign minister, made the announcement on Monday, echoing a similar promise made by Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president, earlier this month.

February 15th Dunidda \ Africa A South Korean trawler and its 43 crew members arrived at the Kenyan port of Mombasa on Tuesday, about a week after their release from four months of captivity in Somalia.

February 14th Dunidda \ Africa The Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) extended its term for a further 3 years on 3rd February 2011, few days after IGAD Heads of States meeting on 30th January 2011, which stressed the urgent need to extend the term of the parliament in order to avoid constitutional crisis before 20th February 2011.

February 13th Dunidda \ Africa The group of African Development Bank (ADB) recently approved of an additional grant of $ 1.2 million for Djibouti through the concessional window of the African Development Fund (ADF), for the financing Program to reduce urban poverty (PREPUD).

February 13th Dunidda \ Africa In the last two decades, the history of northern Somalia is troubled by tensions within the sub-clans. In mapping a way through this region, Roobdoon Forum argues that sub-clan rivalries, combined with artificial borders inherited from the colonial European powers, forms part of the responsibility for today`s crisis in Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn regions (SSC) in Somalia.

February 13th Dunidda \ Africa The United Nations envoy for Somalia on Saturday said that the international community will continue supporting the beleaguered government despite differences over extension of the parliament mandate.