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17 killed, scores injured in Nigeria blast
Date: 2014-07-01 12:04:44 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:42 - ID:806454
ABUJA, July 1 (MENA) - At least 17 people have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a market in Maiduguri, north-eastern Nigeria. The explosives were reportedly hidden in a vehicle carrying charcoal that went off at the town's ....
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Car bomb rocks crowded Nigeria market
Date: 2014-07-01 11:44:34 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:37 - ID:806277
ABUJA, July 1 (MENA) - An explosion hit a market in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a stronghold of the violent Islamist group Boko Haram, on Tuesday. The explosion, believed to be caused by a car bomb, occurred at around 8:00 a.m. when ....
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Rainstorm destroys 60 buildings, kills 15 persons in Nigeria
Date: 2014-06-30 18:46:11 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:120 - ID:805654
ABUJA, June 30 (MENA) - The Nigerian Cross River Emergency Management Agency said on Monday that a rainstorm had destroyed not less than 60 residential buildings and public structures and killed no fewer than 15 persons in different parts of the ....
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Nigeria gunmen attack village, fire on worshippers in churches
Date: 2014-06-29 21:16:25 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:130 - ID:804177
ABUJA, June 29 (MENA) - Suspected Islamic extremists sprayed gunfire at worshipers and torched four churches Sunday in a village just miles from the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, The Star reported. At least 30 bodies have ....
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Egypt amb. meets Burundi min. on bilateral relations
Date: 2014-06-29 19:27:56 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:114 - ID:804060
CAIRO, June 29 (MENA) - Egypt's ambassador in Bujumbura Attia Abo El Naga met Sunday with Burundi's Foreign Minister Laurent Kavakure. The pair discussed bilateral relations and issues of common interest. The Burundian minister hailed the ....
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Nigerian president slams terrorist attacks northeastern country
Date: 2014-06-29 19:03:35 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:106 - ID:804036
ABUJA, June 29 (MENA) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has slammed an explosion Friday in a brothel in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bauchi that killed 10 people, said a statement on Sunday. The Nigerian government will work to arrest ....
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Scores killed in attacks on churches northeast of Nigeria
Date: 2014-06-29 18:24:44 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:94 - ID:804005
ABUJA, June 29 (MENA) - Suspect Boko Haram Islamists armed with explosives attacked a series of churches on Sunday near Chibok, the northeastern town where more than 200 teenage girls were kidnapped in April, France 24 reported. According to ....
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Khartoum calls on Libya to protect its embassy in Tripoli
Date: 2014-06-29 08:53:24 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:24 - ID:803095
KHARTOUM, June 29 (MENA) - Khartoum government called on the Libyan government to protect its embassy in Tripoli. The Sudanese request comes after the Sudanese embassy was attacked in Tripoli by unidentified people Friday. The government also ....
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Egypt slams terrorist attack in Abuja
Date: 2014-06-28 15:13:06 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:64 - ID:802338
CAIRO, June 28 (MENA) - Egypt condemns the terrorist attack that took place in a mall in the Nigerian capital of Abuja last night, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ambassador Badr Abdel-Atti on Saturday. Abdel-Atti expressed his heart-felt ....
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UK condemns Abuja explosion
Date: 2014-06-27 22:31:58 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:132 - ID:801465
ABUJA, June 27 (MENA) - The British government on Friday condemned the recent bomb attack on a shopping mall in Nigeria's capital Abuja and promised to stand with the authorities of the West African country as they seek to bring the perpetrators of ....
