Kenya sets free 7,000 prisoners
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President Kibaki of Kenya frees 7,000 prisoners and raises constitutional reform on the 41st anniversary of independence.
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The Kenyan government on Wednesdayevening confirmed the release of its three nationals who had been kidnapped in Iraq more than a month ago, saying they will return home soon.
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Rwanda on Monday released 8,000  prisoners accused of involvement in the country's 1994  genocide, prompting anger from survivors of the slaughter who  fear new ethnic killings.
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Burma's ruling junta says it is releasing 5,070 prisoners who were arrested "inappropriately".
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The Myanmar authorities will release 5,070 more prisoners in the country for the third batch, the Myanma News Agency said Saturday night.
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Rwanda's government orders another wave of releases for thousands more prisoners held for the 1994 genocide.
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Kenya is trying to rid itself of one of  the last vestiges of colonial rule.
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KITSIYOT, Israel  - Israel released dozens of Palestinian prisoners on Friday as part of a U.S.-backed deal to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas following the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas Islamists last month.
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Seven oil workers who were kidnapped from an offshore oil field in the Niger Delta were released Monday after two days in captivity, police said.
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Burma&#39;s military government began releasing almost 4,000 prisoners yesterday whose detentions were ruled irrelevant or improper, state-run radio and television said.
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A well known Kenyan businessman has been imprisoned in the first conviction under President Mwai Kibaki&#39;s promised anti-corruption drive.
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Hundreds of Pakistanis jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban were released from an Afghan prison Sunday &#151; a major gesture meant to better strained relations between the neighboring countries.
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JANDA, Afghanistan - Taliban militants released the last seven South Korean hostages yesterday under a deal with the government in Seoul, ending a six-week drama that the insurgents claimed as a "great victory for our holy warriors."
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Three Kenyan drivers held hostage by militants in Iraq for 42 days return to Nairobi to an emotional welcome.
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RANGOON, Burma -- Burma's military junta released at least 19 political prisoners yesterday, including members of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party who were among thousands of inmates whose detentions were ruled improper. Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, remained under house arrest.
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Kenya's Human Rights Commission criticises conditions at Meru jail where seven prisoners have died.
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Burmaâs military junta released at least 19 political prisoners today, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.