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Egypt played leading role in drafting African space strategy - NARSS
Date: 2016-02-02 08:38:59 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:19 - ID:4233337
CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) – Egypt had a leading role in coordinating between working groups to lay down an African space policy and strategy, which was ratified Monday by African leaders during the 26th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Chairman of the ....
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African leaders ratify space policy, strategy documents
Date: 2016-02-01 14:40:01 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:75 - ID:4229553
CAIRO, Feb 1 (MENA) – African leaders ratified two documents on African space policy and strategy at the conclusion of the 26th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Chairman of the National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS) ....
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Boko Haram burns kids alive in Nigeria, 86 dead: officials
Date: 2016-01-31 21:53:23 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:129 - ID:4225217
ABUJA, Jan 31 (MENA) - A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria's homegrown Islamic ....
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Attack on Nigeria village 'kills 50'
Date: 2016-01-31 20:30:08 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:120 - ID:4224777
ABUJA, Jan 31 (MENA) - At least 50 people are reported to have been killed in north-eastern Nigeria in a gun and bomb attack by suspected Boko Haram militants, the BBC News reported. Pictures from the village of Dalori show burned-out buildings ....
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3 dead, 59 wounded in suicide bombings near Lake Chad
Date: 2016-01-31 16:52:39 GMT - Chad - Africa - SN:105 - ID:4223801
N'DJAMENA, Jan 31 (MENA) - Three people were killed and dozens wounded in two suicide bombings in the Lake Chad area on Sunday, Al Arabiya quoted a security official as saying. In the first attack in Guie, a bomber on a motorcycle blew himself ....
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Boko Haram launches fresh deadly attacks in Nigeria
Date: 2016-01-31 16:07:08 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:97 - ID:4223241
ABUJA, Jan 31 (MENA) - Dozens of people were feared killed when Boko Haram armed with guns and explosives attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, officials said Sunday, according to Daily Mail. A Nigerian military spokesman, Colonel Mustapha ....
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Oxfam: $1.9B in Ebola Aid not delivered by donors
Date: 2016-01-31 15:38:44 GMT - Cote d'Ivoire - Africa - SN:95 - ID:4223233
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Jan 31 (MENA) - International donors have failed to deliver $1.9 billion in promised funds to help West African countries recover from the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people and decimated already weak health ....
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Sisi presents report on climate change to African summiteers
Date: 2016-01-31 07:36:53 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:8 - ID:4219337
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 31 (MENA) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, in his capacity as head of the committee of African heads of state and governments, will present a report to the 26th Regular African Union Summit on the outcome of the United ....
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Sisi, Bashir discuss Arab, African developments
Date: 2016-01-30 17:02:58 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:83 - ID:4217617
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 30 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi asserted, during a meeting with his Sudanese counterpart Omar Bashir on the sidelines of an AU summit in Addis Ababa, Cairo's appreciation of the deeply-rooted relations with Sudan. Sisi ....
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Climate change could devastate Africa - paper
Date: 2016-01-30 16:51:40 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:81 - ID:4217245
WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (MENA) - A report by The Washington Post has warned that climate change could devastate Africa. The report said Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake, in western Kenya "is a fine turquoise strip that seems to recede ....
