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Boko Haram may have displaced over million in Nigeria: IOM
Date: 2015-01-20 12:26:27 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:50 - ID:1782369
GENEVA, Jan 20 (MENA) - Nigeria’s displaced population may be close to a million due to the mounting violence by the Boko Haram insurgency, according to International Organization for Migration. Unless the insurgency is stopped, the tragedy ....
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Zambia votes for new president
Date: 2015-01-20 07:57:16 GMT - Zambia - Africa - SN:13 - ID:1780009
LUSAKA, Jan 20 (MENA) - Zambians lined up at polling stations on Tuesday to vote for a successor to President Michael Sata, who died in October after a long illness, according to ABC News. The central business district of Lusaka, the Zambian ....
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Sudan seeks press code of conduct with Egypt
Date: 2015-01-19 21:35:49 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:141 - ID:1779121
KHARTOUM, Jan 19 (MENA) - The Sudanese press freedom organization held on Monday a workshop on formulating a Sudanese-Egyptian press charter. The workshop aimed to formulate a code of conduct between the Egyptian and Sudanese media, said head of ....
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French president receives Guinea's counterpart at Elysee
Date: 2015-01-19 18:00:07 GMT - France - Africa - SN:116 - ID:1777937
PARIS, Jan 19 (MENA) - French President Francois Hollande received on Monday his Guinea's counterpart Alpha Omar Conde at the Elysee palace. In a press release, the Elysee palace said the meeting discussed ways of combating Ebola virus and ....
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Mali declares itself Ebola-free
Date: 2015-01-19 13:14:40 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:66 - ID:1775245
BAMAKO, Jan 19 (MENA) - Mali is free of Ebola, the country’s minister of health declared Sunday, saying that 42 days have passed since its last patient tested negative for the virus. In the outbreak afflicting West Africa - infecting more than ....
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Niger security forces fire tear gas to disperse protest
Date: 2015-01-18 21:54:39 GMT - Niger - Africa - SN:151 - ID:1771493
NIAMEY, Jan 18 (MENA) - Security forces in Niger used tear gas Sunday to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters taking part in a banned demonstration in the capital, ABC news reported Sunday. The political altercation came after 10 people ....
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Boko Haram stages attacks in Nigeria and Cameroon
Date: 2015-01-18 20:59:30 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:145 - ID:1771345
YAOUNDE, Jan 18 (MENA) - Boko Haram attacked a village in northern Cameroon early Sunday, killing three people and staging its largest kidnapping yet in the country, the information minister said, adding that some of the hostages were ....
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Medical adviser of Egyptian embassy in Khartoum dies
Date: 2015-01-18 12:12:27 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:61 - ID:1767261
KHARTOUM, Jan 18 (MENA) - The Egyptian Embassy in Khartoum mourned the death of the embassy's medical adviser Adel Abu Zeid, who breathed his last on Saturday after a sudden heart attack. In a statement Sunday, the Egyptian Embassy in Sudan ....
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Chadian president says to answer Cameroon's call to fight Boko Haram
Date: 2015-01-18 08:42:22 GMT - Chad - Africa - SN:14 - ID:1764693
N'DJAMENA, Jan 18 (MENA) - Chadian President Idriss Deby said that his country has answered the call of Cameroon's President Paul Biya to fight Islamist group Boko Haram, Deutsche Welle reported on Sunday. "We cannot remain indifferent to what ....
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Egypt, Uganda mull plan to combat flood effects
Date: 2015-01-17 15:25:56 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:81 - ID:1762357
KAMPALA, Jan 17 (MENA) - Egypt and Uganda have agreed to implement a plan to combat the effects of floods in the African country. The agreement was reached during meetings of the joint technical committee held in Kampala. Egypt's Nile water ....
