Africa

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  • S. Sudan defense min. hails Egypt's support, rejection of sanctions

    Date: 2016-02-10 10:47:11 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:26 - ID:4285261

    JUBA, Feb 10 (MENA) - South Sudanese Defense Minister Kuol Manyang Juuk said that Egypt is advanced at the military level, noting that South Sudan hails Egypt's role in supporting his country in the current crisis. The S. Sudanese minister lauded ....

  • Ethiopia dam technical committees reach joint memo on French offer

    Date: 2016-02-09 12:37:27 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:54 - ID:4279657

    KHARTOUM, Feb 9 (MENA) – The national technical committees of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia concerned with the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam reached a joint memo to be submitted to the French consultancy firm BRL containing their notes on the company’ ....

  • 2 Somali airport workers arrested over bomb in plane

    Date: 2016-02-07 22:00:46 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:107 - ID:4269697

    MOGADISHU, Feb 7 (MENA) - Somali intelligence officials said two airport workers handled a laptop that concealed a bomb that later exploded in a passenger plane, the CNN reported on Sunday. Both workers have been arrested. In a video made ....

  • Libyan envoy slams indiscriminate shelling of Darnah

    Date: 2016-02-07 17:17:27 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:93 - ID:4268837

    CAIRO, Feb 7 (MENA) - Libyan Representative to the Arab League (AL) Ashour Abu-Rashed condemned on Sunday the bombardment that targeted Darnah city in Libya early in the day. The attack left four people, including a child and a woman, dead. A ....

  • Boko Haram attacks Borno communities again, kills 4

    Date: 2016-02-07 15:28:36 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:80 - ID:4267865

    ABUJA, Feb 7 (MENA) - Suspected Boko Haram terrorists raided two villages, Mairi and Malari in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno, killing four persons and razing houses in the communities. The attacks came barely one week after the Dalori ....

  • Two survivors of sunken boat off Sudanese shores arrive in Cairo

    Date: 2016-02-07 14:07:43 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:67 - ID:4266461

    CAIRO, Feb 7 (MENA) - Two Egyptian fishermen, who have been rescued after a fishing boat sunk in Sudanese territorial waters on January 30, along with the body of the Egyptian fisherman, who were on board of the same vessel arrived at Cairo ....

  • Procedures to transfer body of Egyptian fisherman to Egypt 'finalized' - Egypt embassy in Sudan

    Date: 2016-02-07 12:11:37 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:45 - ID:4265849

    KHARTOUM, Feb 7 (MENA) - Procedures to transfer the body of the Egyptian fisherman, found by the Sudanese navy, from Sudan to Egypt have been finalized, said Acting Charge d' Affaires at the Egyptian Embassy in Khartoum Karim Amin. The body of ....

  • South Sudanese presidential spokesman hails Egypt's supportive stance

    Date: 2016-02-07 11:52:20 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:43 - ID:4265513

    JUBA, Feb 7 (MENA) - South Sudanese Presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny hailed Egypt's supportive stance towards South Sudan. South Sudan is keen on cooperating with Egypt in the various fields, Ateny said, adding that South Sudanese ....

  • 10th meeting of tripartite committee on Ethiopia dam starts in Khartoum

    Date: 2016-02-07 08:40:58 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:17 - ID:4264241

    KHARTOUM, Feb 7 (MENA) - The 10th meeting of the tripartite committee between Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Renaissance Dam which Addis Ababa is constructing on the Blue Nile, began here on Sunday. Ahmed Bahaa el Din, the Head of the ....

  • Somali plane 'was holed by bomb' after Mogadishu take-off - officials

    Date: 2016-02-06 18:14:54 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:101 - ID:4262505

    MOGADISHU, Feb 6 (MENA) - A blast that punched a large hole in the fuselage of a passenger plane at Somalia's Mogadishu airport on Tuesday was caused by a bomb, the BBC quoted Somali officials as saying Saturday. "It was a bomb that exploded in ....

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