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Sudan criticizes Cairo’s approach in dealing with Ethiopian dam
Date: 2014-05-12 21:44:46 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:161 - ID:718038
ADDIS ABABA, May 12 (MENA) - Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti has criticized Cairo’s approach in dealing with the issue of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (EGRD), calling on the Egyptian media and other circles to stop what he described as ....
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Security Council voices concern over CAR violence
Date: 2014-05-12 18:17:31 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:129 - ID:717777
NEW YORK, May 12 (MENA) – In a presidential statement, the Security Council expressed its concern at the deterioration in the security situation in parts of Central Africa, in particular the crisis in CAR and its growing regional impact, and the ....
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Nigeria refuses Boko Haram offer to free schoolgirls in exchange for prisoners
Date: 2014-05-12 17:29:34 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:118 - ID:717639
ABUJA, May 12 (MENA) - The Nigerian government refused Monday a Boko Haram offer to free more than 200 schoolgirls in exchange for prisoners. Most of the abducted girls' parents refused the offer, demanding the release of their daughters ....
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Nigeria's Boko Haram, others received $3m from bin Laden
Date: 2014-05-12 09:02:54 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:31 - ID:716323
ABUJA, May 12 (MENA) - A US intelligence report showed that Osama bin Laden provided everything from seed money to strategic direction to the now-infamous Nigerian terror group, The Punch newspaper reported. In 2002, Osama bin Laden dispatched an ....
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Nigeria state governor "has information" on abducted girls
Date: 2014-05-12 06:42:10 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:7 - ID:716138
ABUJA, May 12 (MENA) - The governor of Nigeria's Borno state says he has information on the whereabouts of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist group Boko Haram, the BBC reported Monday. Governor Kashim Shettima said he had passed reports ....
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Sectarian tension rises in Nigeria as groups burn churches, mosques
Date: 2014-05-11 19:42:18 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:146 - ID:715889
ABUJA, May 11 (MENA) - Sectarian tension is currently heightened in Kachia local government area of Kaduna State of Nigeria as religious groups, Christian and Muslim, burned churches and mosques, local media reported on Sunday. Military personnel ....
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Israel offers to help Nigeria find abducted girls
Date: 2014-05-11 18:15:50 GMT - Israel - Africa - SN:136 - ID:715797
GAZA CITY, May 11 (MENA) - Israel offered Sunday Nigeria help in locating 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram in an attack that had drawn global condemnation and prompted some Western powers to provide assistance, ....
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Prominent Qaeda leader killed in northern Mali
Date: 2014-05-11 11:57:36 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:75 - ID:715016
NOUAKCHOTT, May 11 (MENA) - The French army killed in Mali last month Abu Bakr el-Nasr, a close aide to Algerian Islamic leader of Al-Murabitoun Mokhtar Belmokhtar. Al-Murabitoun is a leader in the Qaeda-linked group in Mali. Nasr, an ....
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Egyptians in Ethiopia get ready for voting in presidential elections
Date: 2014-05-11 09:59:51 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:44 - ID:714692
ADDIS ABABA, May 11 (MENA) - Members of the Egyptian community here are getting ready for voting in the upcoming presidential elections as Egyptian expats will start balloting on May 15. In statements on Sunday, Egypt's Ambassador to Ethiopia ....
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Egypt keen on security of its "sisterly" countries
Date: 2014-05-11 09:53:35 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:42 - ID:714673
ADDIS ABABA, May 11 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohammad Idris asserted that Egypt was keen on the security of its sisterly countries, noting that some parties are intentionally harming Egyptian-Ethiopian relations. The ambassador's ....
