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'Islamist militants' kill 10 in northern Cameroon
Date: 2014-08-07 06:36:36 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:13 - ID:862215
YAOUNDE, Aug 7 (MENA) - Militants with suspected ties to Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have killed 10 people in a raid on a remote village in north Cameroon, the BBC reported quoting police. Nine bus passengers and a soldier were shot dead ....
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Security council condemns killing of 6 aid workers in South Sudan
Date: 2014-08-07 04:22:24 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:2 - ID:862106
NEW YORK, Aug 7 (MENA) - The Security Council, which plans to visit South Sudan next week, expressed "outrage" at the recent attacks targeting civilians and humanitarian personnel, and underscored that such attacks "may constitute war crimes." A ....
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Libyan parliament urges warring factions stop fighting
Date: 2014-08-06 22:04:23 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:192 - ID:862039
TRIPOLI, Aug 6 (MENA) – The Libyan parliament issued Wednesday a decision urging all warring factions to immediately stop fighting and hostility actions in Tripoli and Benghazi. It demanded them to comply with the decision without any ....
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Sellal reiterates Algeria’s commitment to end Libya crisis
Date: 2014-08-06 21:25:12 GMT - Algeria - Africa - SN:185 - ID:862041
ALGIERS, Aug 6 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal met Wednesday in Washington with his Libyan counterpart Abdullah Al-Theni to whom he expressed Algeria’s commitment to end the crisis in Libya through the device of neighboring ....
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Nigeria pres. using third parties to talk with Boko Haram, free girls
Date: 2014-08-06 16:39:30 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:140 - ID:861746
ABUJA, Aug 6 (MENA) – The president of Nigeria disclosed Monday that his government is using third parties to talk to Islamist extremists and try to secure the safe release of the 200 schoolgirls they kidnapped, saying military action could prove ....
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Mahlab attends US-Africa Summit session
Date: 2014-08-06 15:44:07 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:130 - ID:861615
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) - Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab attended Wednesday the first session of the Washington-based US-Africa summit, which will wrap up today. US President Barack Obama opened the session, which focused on the future of ....
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Nigerian nurse dies of Ebola as five other cases confirmed
Date: 2014-08-06 11:51:18 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:76 - ID:861148
ABUJA, Aug 6 (MENA) - A Nigerian nurse has become the second person to die of the Ebola virus in Africa’s most populous nation, Bloomberg quoted Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu as saying Wednesday. The nurse had helped treat Liberian ....
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Obama allocates 30bn dollars of assistance and investments in Africa
Date: 2014-08-06 10:17:56 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:46 - ID:860839
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an allocation of 30 billion dollars in the form of general assistance and investments in Africa. Obama, during the US-Africa summit, now in session here, also urged African ....
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Desperate Nigerians fleeing Boko Haram arriving on deserted island in Chad, UN warns
Date: 2014-08-06 07:46:47 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:18 - ID:860627
ABUJA, Aug 6 (MENA) - The United Nations refugee agency sounded the alarm on behalf of the nearly 1,000 people who recently arrived in the uninhabited Chadian island of Choua after fleeing attacks by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. According to ....
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Ebola outbreak: BA suspends flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia over virus
Date: 2014-08-05 16:30:56 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:145 - ID:859988
LONDON, Aug 5 (MENA) - British Airways cancelled its flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia, cutting off the only direct flights between Britain and the Ebola-infected area of west Africa, The Telegraph reported. The carrier, which operates a direct ....
