Africa

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  • FM back home after African tour

    Date: 2015-05-07 15:02:23 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:73 - ID:2539777

    CAIRO, May 7 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry returned home Thursday from Eritrea, concluding a two-day African tour had taken him to South Sudan as well. During his visit of Asmara, the Egyptian top diplomat met with Eritrean Foreign ....

  • 54 killed in cattle raid attacks in Kenya

    Date: 2015-05-06 19:06:25 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:154 - ID:2533961

    NAIROBI, May 6 (MENA) - The Kenya Red Cross said on Wednesday that 54 people have been killed in Kenya’s northern region in fighting that police say was started by a cattle raid. The Kenya Red Cross said five people are critically wounded and 350 ....

  • Shabaab movement kills government official in Mogadishu

    Date: 2015-05-06 15:56:02 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:123 - ID:2532817

    MOGADISHU, May 6 (MENA) - Members of Somalian terror group al-Shabaab killed a government official in Mogadishu one day after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited the country. Abdifatah Barre, the deputy district commissioner of Mogadishu's ....

  • Egypt FM leaves Juba for Asmara

    Date: 2015-05-06 13:59:36 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:97 - ID:2531801

    JUBA, May 6 (MENA) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry left here Wednesday for the Eritrean capital Asmara. South Sudanese Foreign Minister Barnaba Benjamin saw off Shoukry and his accompanying delegation at the airport. During his ....

  • Shoukry says Egypt keen on S. Sudan stability, peace, unity

    Date: 2015-05-06 13:59:15 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:102 - ID:2531241

    JUBA, May 6 (MENA) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has said he is in South Sudan to discuss means of boosting bilateral relations. Emerging from a meeting with President Salva Kiir on Wednesday, Shoukry spoke to the press. He told ....

  • FM visits Egypt clinic in Juba

    Date: 2015-05-06 13:54:31 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:101 - ID:2531369

    JUBA, May 6 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry visited on Wednesday the Egyptian clinic in South Sudan. He also inspected the clinic sections, operated by Egyptian doctors. Some 300 South Sudanese nationals visit the clinic daily, where ....

  • Kerry in Djibouti to thank officials over evacuating US citizens from Yemen

    Date: 2015-05-06 13:50:43 GMT - Djibouti - Africa - SN:98 - ID:2530897

    DJIBOUTI, May 6 (MENA) - US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Djibouti on Wednesday for talks with the government and to thank officials over helping US citizens to leave Yemen, the Washington Post said. As of April 28, the US embassy in ....

  • Algeria FM to represent Bouteflika at AU summit

    Date: 2015-05-06 13:34:18 GMT - Algeria - Africa - SN:96 - ID:2531233

    ALGIERS, May 6 (MENA) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika entrusted Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra to represent him at the summit of the Committee of Ten Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) on the reform of United Nations ....

  • More inter-Islamic coordination needed to fight terror -- Awqaf min.

    Date: 2015-05-06 13:26:43 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:92 - ID:2530453

    KHARTOUM, May 6 (MENA) - Egypt's Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa underscored the importance of boosting cooperation between religious institutions in Islamic countries to counter extremism ideology. Gomaa was speaking during a meeting here ....

  • Shoukry conveys Sisi best regards to Kiir

    Date: 2015-05-06 12:29:23 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:71 - ID:2530417

    JUBA, May 6 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, currently visiting here, conveyed a message from President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to Salva Kiir, the President of South Sudan. Shoukry extended Sisi's best regards to Kiir and stressed Egypt's ....

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