Africa
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Nigeria defense ministry: Boko Haram leader dead
Date: 2014-09-24 20:27:15 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:205 - ID:1007733
Abuja, Sept 24 (MENA) - Nigeria's ministry of defense spokesman announced Wednesday that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was dead, Russia Today reported. No more details were available till now. The announcement is the first time the ....
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Mauritania's premier meets Egyptian ambassador
Date: 2014-09-24 14:55:38 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:121 - ID:1005029
NOUAKCHOTT, Sept 24 (MENA) - Mauritania's Prime Minister Yahya Ould Hademine held a meeting Wednesday with Egyptian Ambassador in Nouakchott Ahmed Fadel. During the meeting, the diplomat delivered Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab's ....
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Mauritania marks 44th anniversary of Abdel Nasser death
Date: 2014-09-24 14:06:25 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:112 - ID:1004897
NOUAKCHOTT, Sept 24 (MENA) - Mauritania and Egyptian Cultural Center (ECC) in Nouakchott would hold a ceremony on Sunday to mark the 44th death anniversary of late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. The ceremony, which would be hosted by ....
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Sudanese opposition refuses any Bashir-led govt
Date: 2014-09-24 09:47:10 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:63 - ID:1001785
KHARTOUM, Sept 24 (MENA) - Sudan's opposition Popular Congress Party turned down a proposal from US, Britain and Norway to form a transitional government led by Omar Al-Bashir. Political Secretary of Popular Congress Party, Kamal Omar said in ....
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Official in Egyptian embassy in Addis Ababa survives road crash
Date: 2014-09-23 16:39:16 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:129 - ID:998469
ADDIS ABABA, Sept 23 (MENA) - Head of the information bureau at the Egyptian embassy in Ethiopia said Tuesday that he survived a road crash while he was heading to Addis Ababa airport to bid farewell to Egyptian Irrigation Minister Hosam Moghazy. ....
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Child malnutrition emergency in South Sudan
Date: 2014-09-23 16:29:15 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:124 - ID:998349
GENEVA, Sept 23 (MENA) - Tens of thousands of children under the age of five remain at risk of malnutrition-related death in South Sudan, despite temporary improvements in the food security situation that were released today by the Integrated Food ....
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Irrigation min. holds press conf. on Ethiopia visit Wednesday
Date: 2014-09-23 14:47:49 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:110 - ID:997901
CAIRO, Sept 23 (MENA) – Irrigation Minister Hosam Moghazy will hold a press conference on Wednesday to address the results of his recent visit to Ethiopia. Moghazy paid a visit to the construction site of Ethiopia's renaissance dam. The ....
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UN World Food Program convoy arrives in western Libya
Date: 2014-09-23 08:01:11 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:28 - ID:993753
TRIPOLI, Sept 23 (MENA) - A seven-truck convoy from the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) and Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has arrived in the west of the country to help the thousands of families displaced by recent fighting in Tripoli, the Libya Herald ....
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Egypt joins Arab-African meeting in New York
Date: 2014-09-23 06:10:37 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:14 - ID:993265
CAIRO/NEW YORK, Sept 23 (MENA) - Egypt took part in a ministerial meeting for a committee tasked with implementing the Arab-Africa summit held in Kuwait. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 69th UN General Assembly meeting, Spokesman for ....
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Ebola fight: 40 dead found in DR Congo raising toll to over 2,000
Date: 2014-09-22 21:06:12 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - Africa - SN:169 - ID:992349
KINSHASA, Sept 22 (MENA) – Ebola outbreak has killed 40 people in Democratic Republic of Congo, where there have been 71 cases, Russia Today TV reported. Two of the five countries affected by the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak are managing to ....