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South Africa election: Polls open
Date: 2014-05-07 07:04:14 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:20 - ID:707545
PRETORIA, May 7 (MENA) - Polls have opened in South Africa's fifth general election since the end of apartheid 20 years ago, BBC reported. About 25 million people have registered to vote - roughly half the population. The governing African ....
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300 killed by Boko Haram in order Town with Cameroon
Date: 2014-05-07 06:38:17 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:17 - ID:707544
ABUJA, May 7 (MENA) -About 300 people were killed in Nigerian border town with Cameroon, Gamboru Ngala, when armed Boko Haram insurgents drove into the town in armored vehicles. The militants targeted a local market as they fired sporadically ....
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Obama: US to help Nigeria track down 200 kidnapped schoolgirls
Date: 2014-05-07 06:09:09 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:9 - ID:707506
WASHINGTON, May 7 (MENA) - President Barack Obama said the U.S. sent a team to help Nigeria locate more than 200 schoolgirls seized by Islamist militants three weeks ago, the BBC reported. President Obama said the U.S. team will combine military, ....
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Nigerian leader accepts US help in saving abducted schoolgirls
Date: 2014-05-06 21:23:55 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:144 - ID:707323
ABUJA, May 6 (MENA) – Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted his US counterpart Barack Obama's offer to provide help in finding more than 200 schoolgirls, abducted in northeastern Borno State. US Secretary of State John Kerry has said ....
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Kerry asserts importance of Egypt-Ethiopia co-op
Date: 2014-05-06 19:54:48 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:133 - ID:707238
ADDIS ABABA, May 6 (MENA) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who concluded a three-day visit to Addis Ababa on Saturday, asserted the importance of cooperation between Egypt and Ethiopia, Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dina Mufti said on ....
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Egypt condemns abduction of Nigerian girls by Boko Haram
Date: 2014-05-06 18:48:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:124 - ID:707180
CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - The Egyptian foreign ministry deplored the kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram, spokesman for the ministry Badr Abdel-Ati said. He expressed hope that the abducted students would be released soon. ....
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Sisi meets African media delegation
Date: 2014-05-06 18:34:42 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:121 - ID:707069
CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - Presidential candidate Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has received an African media delegation. The delegation included representatives of media outlets in Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Burundi. During the ....
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Al-Azhar condemns Boko Haram kidnapping of Nigerian girls from their school
Date: 2014-05-06 17:39:39 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:111 - ID:706852
CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - Al-Azhar condemned Tuesday Boko Haram's kidnapping of Nigerian girls from their school, claiming they would deal with them as slaves to be sold or married by force. In a statement, Al-Azhar said this act has no link with the ....
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South Sudan Fighting Rages as Kerry Appeals to Rebel Leader
Date: 2014-05-06 10:37:21 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:37 - ID:706052
NEW YORK, May 6 (MENA) - Just days after Secretary of State John Kerry sought to broker high-level talks to halt the fighting in South Sudan, his peacemaking efforts have been thrown into question by heavy clashes here in Bentiu, the capital of ....
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UN chief in South Sudan for talks with Kiir, civilians
Date: 2014-05-06 10:37:03 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:36 - ID:706035
JUBA, May 6 (MENA) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in South Sudan, where he has called on both officials and rebel leaders to find a political solution to nearly five months of civil war, the VOA reported Tuesday. Ban's one-day ....
