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Conflicting parties near Tripoli airport urged to stop firing as huge oil depot catches fire
Date: 2014-07-28 15:00:16 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:73 - ID:849009
TRIPOLI, July 28 (MENA) - The Libyan interim government sent an urgent appeal to those who own firefighting cars in Tripoli to head for outskirts of Tripoli to extinguish a blaze at an oil depot, that has been ignited by rocket attack on ....
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3 dead, 10 injured in Nigeria's Kano suicide attack
Date: 2014-07-28 13:32:15 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:62 - ID:848909
ABUJA, July 28 (MENA) - A female suicide bomber in Nigeria’s Kano city killed three persons and injured 10 others on Monday in an attack targeting a petrol station, local media reported. A female suicide bomber detonated an explosive at the ....
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Somalia shuts down 30 embassies in West Africa
Date: 2014-07-28 10:01:30 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:35 - ID:848703
MOGADISHU, July 38 (MENA) - The Somali Federal Government has announced that it will close 30 of their diplomatic missions to countries in West Africa. Mr. Abdirahman Duale Beileh, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Somali Federal Government ....
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6 killed, 8 injured in bomb blast in Nigeria church
Date: 2014-07-27 18:16:19 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:87 - ID:848036
ABUJA, July 27 (MENA) – A blast hit a church in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing six people and wounding eight others on Sunday, eye-witnesses said. Three persons were arrested for allegedly being involved in the attack. The attack came ....
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Boko Haram kidnaps wife of Cameroon vice PM
Date: 2014-07-27 15:00:42 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:61 - ID:847833
ABUJA, July 27 (MENA) - Nigerian militant group Boko Haram have abducted the wife of the country's deputy prime minister in the north, according to the BBC. The wife of Amadou Ali and her maid were taken in the town of Kolofata near the Nigerian ....
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Body of Ebola victim cremated in Lagos
Date: 2014-07-27 09:31:49 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:20 - ID:847137
ABUJA, July 27 (MENA) - The body of the first victim of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria, who died in Lagos on Friday, has been cremated, Vanguard reported on Sunday. The event was witnessed by officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health and ....
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Magdi Yacoub, Egyptian amb. to Ethiopia inaugurate intensive care unit for heart surgery
Date: 2014-07-26 15:22:17 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:56 - ID:846408
CAIRO, July 26 (MENA) - Renowned heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub and Egyptian Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Edris inaugurated an intensive care unit for heart surgery in Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa. Yacoub is currently visiting Addis Ababa, ....
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US evacuates embassy in Libya amid clashes
Date: 2014-07-26 14:13:46 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:45 - ID:846220
WASHINGTON, July 26 (MENA) - The State Department has shuttered the US embassy in Libya and evacuated American staffers there as the security situation in the capital Tripoli deteriorates amid worsening clashes between rival militias, the ABC News ....
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Cholera kills 5 in Nigeria, 120 cases reported
Date: 2014-07-26 08:48:02 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:12 - ID:845730
ABUJA, July 26 (MENA) - Five persons have been killed in a cholera outbreak in Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State, South-East Nigeria, a local newspaper reported. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Akabuike, disclosed this ....
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UN says more support urgently needed to tackle growing food insecurity in the Sahel
Date: 2014-07-25 16:20:26 GMT - Italy - Africa - SN:65 - ID:845148
Rome, July 25 (MENA) - The United Nations on Friday called on the international donor community to renew a commitment to fight hunger and food insecurity in the Sahel by protecting and strengthening the resilience of the poor and very poor families ....
