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Nigerian militants Boko Haram attack 2 Cameroon villages, killing 12 people
Date: 2015-04-17 20:09:38 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:89 - ID:2400813
YAOUNDE, April 17 (MENA) - A Cameroon military official says Boko Haram militants have killed at least 12 people in attacks on two Cameroonian villages on the northern border with Nigeria, Fox News reported. Col. Jacob Kodji said on Friday that ....
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South Africa descends towards a new apartheid -- report
Date: 2015-04-17 17:56:11 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:76 - ID:2400425
JOHANNESBURG, April 17 (MENA) - Immigrants wielding machetes have clashed with police as they hunt for locals that attacked foreign shop owners as violence continues to spread across South Africa, The Daily Mail reported. Police fired rubber ....
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Boko Haram attacks 2 villages in Cameroon, kills 12
Date: 2015-04-17 15:25:36 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:63 - ID:2399733
YAOUNDE, April 17 (MENA) - Boko Haram militants killed at least 12 people in attacks on two Cameroonian villages on the northern border with Nigeria, ABC News reported Friday quoting a senior military official. The extremists entered the ....
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South Africa's Durban city rallies against xenophobia
Date: 2015-04-17 11:19:11 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:30 - ID:2398213
DURBAN, South Africa, April 17 (MENA) - Up to 5,000 people have taken part in a rally against xenophobia in South Africa's coastal city of Durban following attacks on foreigners, the BBC reported Friday. President Jacob Zuma condemned the ....
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Defense min. meets S. Sudan chief of staff
Date: 2015-04-16 10:43:40 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:37 - ID:2390509
CAIRO, April 16 (MENA) - Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi met on Thursday with South Sudan's Army Chief of Staff Paul Malong and his accompanying delegation. The meeting tackled the latest developments at the domestic and regional levels as well as ....
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Parl't group visits Elsewedy Cable factory in Ethiopia
Date: 2015-04-16 09:19:39 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:27 - ID:2389833
ADDIS ABABA, April 16 (MENA) - The Egyptian-Ethiopian Parliamentary Friendship Group visited on Thursday Elsewedy Cable Factory outside Addis Ababa. Egypt's Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Edris and Ethiopian media were among the ....
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Suicide bomber kills 3, wounds 16 in attack on UN peacekeeper base in northern Mali
Date: 2015-04-15 20:53:58 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:140 - ID:2388441
BAMAKO, April 15 (MENA) - The UN mission in Mali said a suicide bomber has attacked a peacekeeping base, killing at least three people, Fox News reported. In a statement released Wednesday, the UN mission known as MINUSMA said that the attack ....
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Burundi at 'crossroads' between peace and violence: UN
Date: 2015-04-15 18:55:56 GMT - Burundi - Africa - SN:113 - ID:2387549
BUJUMBURA, April 15 (MENA) - Burundi is at "crossroads" ahead of key elections, the UN rights chief said Wednesday. "I will put it bluntly: as I prepared for this mission, I talked to many knowledgeable people, within and outside the UN, in Geneva ....
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3 killed, peacekeepers injured in Mali suicide attack
Date: 2015-04-15 17:50:55 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:103 - ID:2387157
BAMAKO, April 15 (MENA) -At least three people have been killed and nine peacekeepers seriously injured in a suicide attack on a UN base in Mali on Wednesday, according to Radio France International. The explosion occurred in the northern town of ....
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Egypt amb. in Abuja hails Nigeria's success in organizing presidential, parliamentary polls
Date: 2015-04-15 14:26:45 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:74 - ID:2385737
ABUJA, April 15 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador in Nigeria Ashraf Abdel Qader Salama hailed Nigeria's success in organizing the presidential and parliamentary elections, which were held recently. In statements to Nigeria's Leadership Newspaper, ....
