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OIC condemns Ivory Coast's deadly attack
Date: 2016-03-14 12:19:58 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Africa - SN:41 - ID:4507489
JEDDAH, March 14 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) vehemently condemned Monday the Ivory Coast's terrorist attack that left at least 14 dead on Grand Bassam beach. OIC's Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani expressed deep ....
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Al Qaeda claims responsibility for deadly Ivory Coast beach town attack
Date: 2016-03-13 22:17:00 GMT - Cote d'Ivoire - Africa - SN:111 - ID:4504181
ABIDJAN, March 13 (MENA) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for an attack on three hotels Sunday in Grand-Bassam, a beach town in Ivory Coast that's popular with locals and foreigners, ABC News reported. Resident Josiane ....
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UN Chad peacekeeper kills 2 colleagues in northern Mali
Date: 2016-03-13 20:23:26 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:107 - ID:4504065
BAMAKO, March 13 (MENA) - The United Nations said that a Chadian peacekeeper in northern Mali has killed two colleagues and injured another after shooting at them, Fox News reported. The spokeswoman for the UN mission in Mali, Radhia Achouri, ....
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'At least 16 dead' after gunmen open fire in Ivory Coast resort
Date: 2016-03-13 20:01:54 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:104 - ID:4503537
LONDON, March 13 (MENA) - Sixteen people have been killed after six heavily armed gunmen attacked a beach resort in Ivory Coast, The Independent reported. The government has said the attackers have been 'neutralized.' Al-Qaeda in the Islamic ....
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Lebanese embassy in Ivory Coast urges nationals to stay home
Date: 2016-03-13 17:20:29 GMT - Lebanon - Africa - SN:90 - ID:4502797
BEIRUT, March 13 (MENA) – The Lebanese Embassy in Ivory Coast on Sunday called on its nationals to stay home after the killing and injuring of several foreigners, including Lebanese persons in a terrorist attack carried out by gunmen at a hotel in ....
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4 million Sudanese citizens facing crisis food insecurity
Date: 2016-03-13 11:51:47 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:40 - ID:4499621
KHARTOUM, March 13 (MENA) - More than four million Sudanese citizens will face crisis food insecurity conditions or worse in the coming months, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA said ....
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Mauritanian university professors urge boosting cultural contact with Egypt
Date: 2016-03-12 15:52:25 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:49 - ID:4494693
NOUAKCHOTT, March 12 (MENA) – Professors of the Mauritanian universities called for boosting the Mauritanian-Egyptian cultural contact. Mauritanian university professor Ahmed Habiballah reiterated, during discussions organized by Egypt center for ....
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South Sudan: UN announces independent high-level probe into Malakal events
Date: 2016-03-12 10:19:31 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:27 - ID:4493161
NEW YORK, March 12 (MENA) - The United Nations will convene an independent high-level board of inquiry to conduct an in-depth investigation into how the UN responded last month to deadly violence in the town of Malakal, in northern South Sudan, UN ....
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Angola's Jose Eduardo dos Santos 'to step down in 2018'
Date: 2016-03-11 13:43:42 GMT - Angola - Africa - SN:52 - ID:4489129
LUANDA, March 11 (MENA) - Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has announced he will step down in 2018, having ruled since 1979, The BBC reported on Friday "I took the decision to leave and end my political life in 2018," he told a congress ....
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APRM chief due in Khartoum Wednesday to push for negotiations with armed groups
Date: 2016-03-10 10:41:07 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:33 - ID:4481325
KHARTOUM, March 10 (MENA) - President of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Thabo Mbeki is due to arrive here on Wednesday to discuss with the Sudanese government his call for holding a strategic consultative meeting in Addis Ababa with the ....
