Africa

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  • Sisi receives Burkina Faso FM

    Date: 2014-09-10 11:31:48 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:61 - ID:915454

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Wednesday received Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibrill Yipene Bassole, with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry attending. The meeting took up means of promoting bilateral cooperation in ....

  • Nigeria's Kaduna governor meets Egypt's Iftaa delegation

    Date: 2014-09-09 18:39:09 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:134 - ID:914366

    ABUJA, Sept 9 (MENA) – Nigeria's Kaduna State Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero received on Tuesday a delegation from Egypt's Darul Iftaa, currently making a tour of Africa that also includes Ivory Coast and Senegal. The meeting was attended by ....

  • Dar al-Ifta scholars deliver speeches on Islam's tolerance in Nigeria

    Date: 2014-09-09 10:50:46 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:40 - ID:913177

    ABUJA, Sept 9 (MENA) – Scholars from Egypt's Dar al-Ifta delivered on Tuesday speeches at the Grand Mosque in Abuja in the presence of Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria Ashraf Salama. The lectures, which were delivered by a number of Dar al-Ifta ....

  • Burkina Faso's FM to visit Egypt Wednesday

    Date: 2014-09-09 10:41:42 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:32 - ID:913435

    CAIRO, Sept 9 (MENA) - Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibrill Yipene Bassole is due in Cairo Wednesday for talks with Egyptian officials on means of boosting bilateral cooperation. During the visit, Bassole will meet with Foreign Minister Sameh ....

  • Mahlab meets Mauritania's agriculture minister

    Date: 2014-09-09 10:08:37 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:23 - ID:913232

    CAIRO, Sept 9 (MENA) – Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab met on Tuesday with Mauritanian Agriculture Minister Ibrahim Wald Mubarak in the presence of Egypt's Agriculture Minister Adel el-Beltagy. They discussed ways of boosting cooperation between the ....

  • Eritrean president arrives in Cairo

    Date: 2014-09-08 12:29:43 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:68 - ID:912061

    CAIRO, Sept 8 (MENA) - Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki arrived at Cairo International Airport on Monday. Afewerki arrived on board of a private plane and was welcomed at the airport by Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab. During his visit, ....

  • Kenya's President lauds US for killing Al Shabaab leader Godane

    Date: 2014-09-06 16:31:40 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:94 - ID:909276

    NAIROBI, Sep 6 (MENA) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has lauded the killing of Al Shabaab leader Muktar Abdirahman Godane, the man behind the planning of Westgate mall attack in September last year that killed at least 67 people, the state's ....

  • Somalia on alert after al-Shabab leader Godane killed

    Date: 2014-09-06 09:03:39 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:23 - ID:908508

    MOGADISHU, Sept 6 (MENA) - Somalia is on alert for retaliatory attacks by the Islamist group al-Shabab after the group's leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, 37, was killed in a US air strike, the BBC reported. National Security Minister Kalif Ahmed Ereg ....

  • Kenya leader Uhuru Kenyatta's ICC trial shelved

    Date: 2014-09-05 20:23:30 GMT - Netherlands - Africa - SN:107 - ID:908177

    THE HAGUE, Sept 5 (MENA) - Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have asked for the case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to be adjourned indefinitely, the BBC News reported. ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she still did ....

  • Ebola death toll passes 2,000 - WHO

    Date: 2014-09-05 19:32:08 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:102 - ID:908174

    ABUJA, Sept 5 (MENA) - The World Health Organization said the number of people who have died in the Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000 across five West Africa countries, with about half the deaths in Liberia, Nigerian media quoted a WHO ....

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