Africa

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  • S. Sudanese requests to modify fees of oil passage via Sudan

    Date: 2014-12-23 09:31:51 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:45 - ID:1594989

    KHARTOUM, Dec 23 (MENA) - South Sudanese government will present a request to the Sudanese government to modify the value of fees on petroleum passage via the Sudanese territories. This comes after the decrease of the international prices of oil, ....

  • Essebsi urges Marzouki to take part in building Tunisia

    Date: 2014-12-23 08:40:11 GMT - Tunisia - Africa - SN:34 - ID:1594745

    TUNIS, Dec 23 (MENA) - Elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi urged his rival in the presidential elections Moncef Marzouki to take part in building the country. In an interview with the state-owned Tunisian Television yesterday, Essebsi ....

  • South Sudan summons Khartoum ambassador over hostile statements

    Date: 2014-12-21 09:29:51 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:23 - ID:1579949

    KHARTOUM, Dec 21 (MENA) - South Sudan summoned Sudanese Ambassador in Juba Mutrif Sadig in protest against some hostile statements by Sudanese officials against the country. South Sudanese Foreign Ministry questioned the diplomat on the reasons ....

  • Sierra Leone peacekeepers to leave Somalia mission

    Date: 2014-12-20 19:23:09 GMT - Sierra Leone - Africa - SN:100 - ID:1578197

    FREETOWN, Dec 20 (MENA) - A Sierra Leone military official says the country is withdrawing from the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia after being blocked from rotating its soldiers over concerns about the spread of Ebola, ABC News ....

  • More than 6,800 dead from Ebola – WHO

    Date: 2014-12-20 18:43:37 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:96 - ID:1578097

    GENEVA, Dec 20 (MENA) - The Ebola death toll has risen to more than 6,800 people, almost all of them in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. As of December 13, there had been 18,464 cases of infection from the deadly ....

  • Confrontations between Sudanese army, SPLA-N in South Kordofan

    Date: 2014-12-20 08:08:04 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:14 - ID:1573609

    KHARTOUM, Dec 20 (MENA) - The Sudan People's Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) said that its forces managed to repel an attack by the Sudanese Army in South Kordofan state. A force of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) attempted to capture Daloka area, ....

  • Ebola kills Sierra Leone's most senior doctor

    Date: 2014-12-19 19:27:10 GMT - Sierra Leone - Africa - SN:103 - ID:1572141

    LONDON, Dec 19 (MENA) - Sierra Leone's most senior doctor has died of Ebola just hours after an experimental drug to treat him arrived at Freetown's airport, The Guardian reported on Friday. Dr. Victory Willoughby is the 11th of the country's 120 ....

  • Juba rejects Sudan warning about rebels

    Date: 2014-12-19 17:05:58 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:83 - ID:1571617

    KHARTOUM, Dec 19 (MENA) - South Sudan's army rebuffed on Friday a warning by Sudan of a possible military incursion into the nascent state to fight rebels. The warning constitutes a declaration of war, a spokesman for the army of Juba said. He ....

  • UNHCR condemns massacres in Beni, in DR Congo

    Date: 2014-12-19 16:17:43 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:73 - ID:1571373

    GENEAVA, Dec 19 (MENA) - The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) condemned on Friday the ongoing massacre of civilians in the Beni area of eastern Congo, according to the UN Media Center. The UNHCR is greatly concerned by the ....

  • Panel on renaissance dam to convene by mid-Jan, minister says

    Date: 2014-12-19 11:04:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:44 - ID:1569277

    CAIRO, Dec 19 (MENA) - Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi said the tripartite panel between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the Ethiopian renaissance dam will convene in the middle of January. The panel will choose the consultant ....

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