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Opposition leader claims Burundi not ready for polls
Date: 2015-05-25 19:00:16 GMT - Burundi - Africa - SN:133 - ID:2663969
BUJUMBURA, May 25 (MENA) - Burundi is not ready for parliamentary or presidential elections next month because the government is curtailing freedoms including preventing the opposition from campaigning, ABC News quoted a leading opposition candidate ....
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Boko Haram in deadly raid on Nigeria town
Date: 2015-05-25 11:32:43 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:53 - ID:2660117
ABUJA, May 25 (MENA) - Boko Haram fighters killed several people and destroyed dozens of homes in a raid on a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, local residents, a vigilante and the military said on Sunday. Scores of Islamist militants in ....
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Tunisian soldier kills 3 fellow troops before he is shot dead
Date: 2015-05-25 11:25:00 GMT - Tunisia - Africa - SN:50 - ID:2659977
TUNIS, May 25 (MENA) - The shooting which took place, Monday morning in the Tunisian Bushusha barracks, killed four including the shooter and wounded over 15, according to a provisional toll from a medical source in the Tunis military ....
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Sudan confiscates many papers before hitting newsstands
Date: 2015-05-25 08:23:09 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:19 - ID:2658317
KHARTOUM, May 25 (MENA) - Sudanese authorities confiscated on Monday a number of newspapers before hitting newsstands. No reason was given for the motion. The confiscated papers are Al Sudani, Al Intibaha, Al Watan, Alwan, Al Jareeda, ....
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Eu allocates 9 mln euro to WFP to provide humanitrian aid in Sudan
Date: 2015-05-24 14:15:18 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:60 - ID:2654757
KHARTOUM, May 24 (MENA) - The European Commission (EC)'s Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) allocated 9 million euros to the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to the Sundanese people. In a ....
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AMCEN meeting Mon. to unify African visions on environmental issues
Date: 2015-05-24 09:35:04 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:21 - ID:2652361
CAIRO, May 24 (MENA) - Environment Minister Khaled Fahmi, also head of African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), will hold a two-day meeting with African environment ministers on Monday to discuss the results of the consultative ....
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Parliamentary elections starts in Ethiopia
Date: 2015-05-24 08:34:00 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:15 - ID:2651873
ADDIS ABABA, May 24 (MENA) – Polling stations across Ethiopia opened for Sunday's polls which 58 political parties compete for regional councils and federal parliament, ENA reported. Electorates have started to queue outside polling stations ....
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Somali MP Yusuf Dirir killed in Mogadishu attack
Date: 2015-05-24 07:40:16 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:9 - ID:2651477
MOGADISHU, May 24 (MENA) – A Somali member of parliament has been shot dead in Mogadishu in an attack by suspected Islamist militants, the BBC reported on Sunday. Security officials said that Yusuf Dirir was killed when gunmen opened fire on his ....
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Al Shabab gunmen kill Somali MP
Date: 2015-05-23 19:40:13 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:119 - ID:2650589
MOGADISHU, May 23 (MENA) - A Somali member of parliament has been shot dead in Mogadishu by militants from the al Shabab movement, BBC reported. MP Yusuf Mohamed Dirir died in hospital after a group of men stopped his car and proceeded to fire at ....
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Egyptian irrigation minister to visit Congo on May 29
Date: 2015-05-23 15:36:07 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:82 - ID:2649017
CAIRO, May 23 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador in Kinshasa Hani Salah met with the Congolese minister of environment and sustainable development who voiced anticipation for the visit of the Egyptian minister of water resources and irrigation to Congo on ....
