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Sudan-Egypt crossing to open Wed.
Date: 2014-08-23 12:17:57 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:40 - ID:887219
KHARTOUM, Aug 23 (MENA) – The experimental operation of the Egypt-Sudan Ashkit-Qastal land crossing will start on Wednesday instead of Monday, Egypt's Ambassador in Khartoum Osama Shaltout has said. The opening of the land terminal will achieve a ....
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Egypt to participate in IGAD summit in Ethiopia
Date: 2014-08-23 11:48:23 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:38 - ID:887308
CAIRO, Aug 23 (MENA) – An Egyptian delegation left Saturday for Ethiopia to participate in the regional leaders’ summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which takes place on Sunday, the Foreign Ministry spokesman ....
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Ebola crisis: Speed and extent of outbreak 'unprecedented'
Date: 2014-08-23 05:49:51 GMT - Liberia - Africa - SN:7 - ID:886711
MONROVIA, Aug 23 (MENA) - The World Health Organization has said the speed and extent of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is "unprecedented", the BBC reported Saturday. The WHO's Dr Keiji Fukuda expressed concern over so-called "shadow zones", ....
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Nigeria confirms 2 new Ebola cases
Date: 2014-08-22 12:38:03 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:50 - ID:886071
ABUJA, Aug 22 (MENA) - Two new cases of Ebola have been detected in Nigeria, ABC News cited Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu as saying Friday. Chukwu told reporters in Abuja, the capital, the two are spouses of a man and woman who had ....
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Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan to negotiate over Renaissance dam
Date: 2014-08-22 08:59:08 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:25 - ID:885698
CAIRO, Aug 22 (MENA) - Water ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia will meet on Monday in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum to kick off win-win tripartite negotiations on Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam. "Egypt will go to these talks with a new ....
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Nigeria militants 'seize police academy'
Date: 2014-08-21 18:01:59 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:131 - ID:885286
ABUJA, Aug 21 (MENA) - Northern Nigeria's riot police training academy has been overrun by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a witness in Borno state has told the BBC. Shots were heard after the militants arrived in three armoured vehicles and on ....
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Yemen, Djibouti, Somalia discuss cooperation to curb refugees' flow
Date: 2014-08-21 13:15:57 GMT - Yemen - Africa - SN:87 - ID:884757
SANA'A, Aug 21 (MENA) - Deputy Foreign Minister Amir al-Aidaroos on Thursday met separately in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with Interior Minister of Djibouti Hassan Omar Mohammed Bourhan and Somali Foreign Minister Abdirahman Duale ....
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Egypt, Mauritania probe Gaza situation
Date: 2014-08-21 11:45:22 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:61 - ID:884529
CAIRO, Aug 21 (MENA) – Egypt's Ambassador in Nouakchott Ahmed Fadel Yacoub met with Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ould Teguedi to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. Egypt and Mauritania are working on achieving a quantum leap in ....
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Lebanese kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria
Date: 2014-08-21 07:48:05 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:20 - ID:884074
ABUJA, Aug 21 (MENA) - General Manager of Black Horse Industries Limited, Mr. S. Sakalawi, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, The Nation newspaper reported. The Lebanese was seized and whisked away by three ....
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New suspected Nigeria Ebola cases after officials see progress
Date: 2014-08-20 17:06:08 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:131 - ID:883408
ABUJA, Aug 21 (MENA) - Nigeria Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that five new suspected cases of the Ebola virus were discovered in Lagos, local media reported. Earlier, the health minister expressed confidence the outbreak in the country ....
