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US issues travel warning to Americans in Sudan over high terror threat
Date: 2016-01-22 06:36:54 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:6 - ID:4164737
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (MENA) - Americans should avoid traveling to three areas in Sudan and to exercise caution in the rest of the country, according to an advisory issued by the US Department of State on Thursday. ِِِِِِAccording to Sputnik News, the ....
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Sudan, Egypt probe trade ties
Date: 2016-01-21 15:19:43 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:86 - ID:4161021
KHARTOUM, Jan 21 (MENA) – Sudanese Trade Minister Salah Mohamed Hasan probed with Egyptian Ambassador to Sudan Osama Shaltout means of promoting trade and investment cooperation. The meeting took up means of removing trade obstacles between the ....
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Egypt/Press/Headlines 4 last Cairo
Date: 2016-01-21 06:35:48 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:13 - ID:4157425
THE EGYPTIAN GAZETTE: - President Xi starts milestone visit to Cairo - President Sisi: Egypt will work with China to achieve common interests, future development - Cairo for closer ties with IPU, AIPU - Mufti condemns terrorist attacks against ....
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Kenyan police kill 4 terror suspects
Date: 2016-01-20 12:39:16 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:49 - ID:4152429
NAIROBI, Jan 20 (MENA) - Four wanted terror suspects were shot dead in the Kenyan city Malindi early on Wednesday morning after months of evading arrest. police went to the suspects' hideout after reports from locals, BBC reported. Security ....
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3 policemen killed in Mali attack
Date: 2016-01-20 07:58:28 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:10 - ID:4150265
BAMAKO, Jan 20 (MENA) - Three policemen were killed by militants in an overnight attack in central Mali, according The Economic Times. The three policemen were shot dead in an overnight attack near the town of Mopti while on duty, a military ....
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Kenya's president vows to defeat al-Shabab
Date: 2016-01-19 15:31:46 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:67 - ID:4147217
NAIROBI, Jan 19 (MENA) - Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said the country remains “unbowed and undeterred” in the fight against al-Shabab militants in Somalia. He asserted that Kenyans must stand with the families of the soldiers killed in a ....
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UN food agency says 14 million face hunger in southern Africa
Date: 2016-01-18 14:48:01 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:70 - ID:4139645
GENEVA, Jan 18 (MENA) - About 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Niño weather pattern, the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) said. The worst-affected country is ....
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Terrorist group affiliated to AQIM carried out Burkina Faso hotel attack
Date: 2016-01-18 09:36:08 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:24 - ID:4136005
NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 18 (MENA) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) announced that three of its members have carried out the attack on a luxury hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso. Press sources quoted an AQIM statement as saying that the three ....
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Egypt committed to cooperate with Nile Basin countries: minister
Date: 2016-01-17 21:08:12 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:122 - ID:4134497
CAIRO, Jan 17 (MENA) – Egypt is still committed to honestly cooperate with all Nile Basin countries to make maximum use of the available water resources for the benefit of everyone, said the irrigation minister. In statements late on Sunday, ....
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Burkina Faso Security forces hunt possible surviving attackers, 14 foreigners dead
Date: 2016-01-17 20:11:39 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:114 - ID:4134537
OUAGADOUGOU, Jan 17 (MENA) - Security forces are hunting for any possible surviving gunmen from an attack on a hotel in Burkina Faso that left at least 29 people deadand showed the expanding reach of regional jihadists in West Africa. The drama ....
