Africa

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  • France hails UN resolution condemning human rights violations in Burundi

    Date: 2015-12-18 19:32:51 GMT - France - Africa - SN:104 - ID:3954793

    PARIS, Dec 18 (MENA) - France has welcomed the unanimous adoption of a UN Human Rights Council resolution condemning human rights violations and abuses committed in Burundi by all actors and reaffirming that the perpetrators must be held accountable ....

  • African Union agrees to send 5,000 troops to Burundi

    Date: 2015-12-18 18:22:33 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:93 - ID:3954633

    ADDIS ABABA, Dec 18 (MENA) – The African Union has agreed "in principal" to send troops to Burundi to stop the country from spiralling into anarchy, a diplomat said on Friday. The country's current political crisis pits supporters of President ....

  • Egypt condemns violent actions in Burundi, calls for dialogue

    Date: 2015-12-17 20:40:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:124 - ID:3949925

    CARIO, Dec 17 (MENA) - Egypt's Foreign Ministry on Thursday expressed alarm at the escalating violence in Burundi. According to spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid, the Foreign Ministry called on all political parties in the country to hold national ....

  • Egyptian embassy following up fire at pavilion in Senegal fair

    Date: 2015-12-17 20:37:30 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:123 - ID:3949961

    CAIRO, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Egyptian Embassy in Senegal is following up latest development of the fire that broke out in the Egyptian pavilion at the Senegalese fair grounds on Sunday, a statement by the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. All Egyptian ....

  • West Africa bans full-faced veil

    Date: 2015-12-17 19:22:18 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:117 - ID:3949773

    ABUJA, Dec 17 (MENA) - The president of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, said Thursday that leaders of member states agreed to ban full-faced veil. At the end of their two-day meeting in ....

  • Sudanese national dialogue settles 75% of controversial issues - Ghandour

    Date: 2015-12-17 11:16:45 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:45 - ID:3945661

    KHARTOUM, Dec 17 (MENA) – Participants in the Sudanese national dialogue have reached compromises to almost 75 percent of controversial issues, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said. In statements to MENA on Thursday, he said the ....

  • Irrigation minister opens water projects in Uganda

    Date: 2015-12-16 17:02:19 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:110 - ID:3941345

    KAMPALA, Dec 16 (MENA) - Egypt's Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi attended Wednesday several water projects, which are a grant from the Egyptian government to the Ugandan nation. The projects include one of the groundwater ....

  • Bomb attack on army convoy wounds 6 Somali soldiers

    Date: 2015-12-16 16:14:57 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:100 - ID:3941245

    MOGADISHU, Dec 16 (MENA) - A powerful roadside bomb explosion ripped through a military vehicle near Afgoye district in Lower Shabelle region, wounding at least six Somali soldiers, witness said on Wednesday. An eyewitness who requested anonymous, ....

  • Sudanese FM praises "good results" in Khartoum meeting on Ethiopian dam

    Date: 2015-12-16 14:10:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:81 - ID:3940105

    KHARTOUM, Dec 16 (MENA) - Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour appreciated the progress made during the six-way meeting on the Ethiopian renaissance dam in Khartoum a few days ago. In statements to MENA on Wednesday, the Sudanese minister ....

  • Environment min. meets African journalists

    Date: 2015-12-16 13:23:48 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:70 - ID:3939853

    CAIRO, Dec 16 (MENA) - Environment Minister Khalid Fahmy met on Wednesday with a delegation of African journalists. Attending the meeting were 25 African journalists and 10 Egyptian reporters. The meeting discussed a number of issues, atop of ....

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