Africa

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  • FM attends preparatory meeting for Afro-Arab summit

    Date: 2014-06-24 17:44:18 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:144 - ID:795847

    MALABO, June 24 (MENA) – Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry has participated in the preparatory meeting for an Arab-African summit, slated for 2016. "The meeting was a good opportunity to show our concern with boosting Arab relations with the ....

  • Egypt, Tanzania FMs meet on fringe of African ministerial meeting in Malabo

    Date: 2014-06-24 16:39:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:129 - ID:795849

    MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - The foreign ministers of Egypt and Tanzania met Tuesday on the sidelines of an African ministerial meeting in Malabo. Bernand Membe of Tanzania congratulated his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shokri on implementing the second ....

  • Putin appoints Vsevolod Tkachenko as Russian ambassador to Ethiopia, African Union

    Date: 2014-06-24 15:46:14 GMT - Russia - Africa - SN:108 - ID:795651

    MOSCOW, June 24 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Vsevolod Tkachenko as Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia to Ethiopia and Presidential Envoy of Russia to the African Union (AU) headquartered in Addis Ababa, The Voice of ....

  • Egypt amb. stresses importance of ties with Mauritania

    Date: 2014-06-24 15:44:16 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:106 - ID:795745

    NOUAKCHOTT, June 24 (MENA) - Egyptian Ambassador in Nouakchott Ahmed Yacoub Tuesday stressed the importance of ties with Mauritania. Yacoub congratulated Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on his new presidential term. He was speaking at the end of a ....

  • Islamist fighters 'kidnap 90 women, children' from Nigeria villages

    Date: 2014-06-24 13:51:25 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:88 - ID:795472

    ABUJA, June 24 (MENA) - Eyewitnesses said that Islamist militants have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys from villages in northeast Nigeria, two months after Boko Haram fighters kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in an attack which ....

  • Summit meetings of NEPAD Steering Committee kick off on Wednesday

    Date: 2014-06-24 13:26:48 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:80 - ID:795255

    MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - Summit meetings of the Steering Committee of the NEPAD will kick off on Wednesday. Egypt's representative to the committee Ambassador Ibrahim Hassan told MENA that the meetings have special importance in light of the topics ....

  • Sisi will deliver keynote speech at AU Summit

    Date: 2014-06-24 11:43:50 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:51 - ID:795125

    MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will deliver a keynote speech at the inaugural session of the African Summit that will be held here on Thursday and Friday. President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema ....

  • Second day of African FMs meetings kicks off in Equatorial Guinea

    Date: 2014-06-24 09:03:38 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:28 - ID:794645

    MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - The executive council of the foreign ministers of the African Union resumed meetings here on Tuesday to prepare for the 23rd Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU). President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will lead Egypt's ....

  • Five killed in new Kenya coast attack

    Date: 2014-06-24 07:46:43 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:22 - ID:794623

    NAIROBI, June 24 (MENA) - At least five people have been killed in attack on the Kenyan coast, close to the scene of raids last week in which more than 60 people died, the BBC reported. Officials said an armed gang descended on the village of ....

  • Egypt FM attends AU banquet in Malabo

    Date: 2014-06-23 21:58:52 GMT - Guinea - Africa - SN:170 - ID:794303

    MALABO, June 23 (MENA) - The executive council of the foreign ministers of the African Union will continue on Tuesday its meetings in preparation for the AU heads of state summit, slated for Thursday. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is ....

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