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Nigeria protests Trump’s 'shithole' remark
Date: 2018-01-15 19:41:51 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:104 - ID:7192936
ABUJA, Jan 15 (MENA) - Nigeria has protested remarks made by US President Donald Trump over countries of immigrants in his country including Africans. The African government, on Monday, summoned US Ambassador to Nigeria Stuart Symington to ....
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1 killed in suspected Al-Shabab attack in Kenya
Date: 2018-01-13 16:48:05 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:45 - ID:7189134
NAIROBI, Jan 13 (MENA) - Kenyan officials said a civilian was killed and several policemen wounded when suspected members of the Somalia-based extremist group Al Shabab attacked a convoy of vehicles, ABC news reported Saturday Kenyan Interior ....
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Mali plans operation to flush Islamists from lawless center
Date: 2018-01-12 22:22:45 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:75 - ID:7188020
BAMAKO , Jan 12 (MENA) – Mali and neighboring Senegal will deploy 1,000 troops in an operation to pacify central Mali, which has suffered growing violence by Islamists previously confined to its desert north, The Daily Mail quoted a security source ....
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AU says 'frankly alarmed' by Trump's 'very racist' comments
Date: 2018-01-12 20:15:07 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:69 - ID:7187942
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 12 (MENA) – The African Union said it was "frankly alarmed" by the US President Donald Trump's "very racist" comments, ABC reported on Friday. "Given the historical reality of how many Africans arrived in the United States as ....
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Republic of Congo general arrested, accused of coup plot
Date: 2018-01-12 18:57:59 GMT - Republic of the Congo - Africa - SN:64 - ID:7187887
BRAZZAVILLE, Jan 12 (MENA) - Authorities in Republic of Congo have arrested a general who had been close to the president on allegations of planning a coup, Fox News reported. Local media reports said Friday that former armed forces inspector Gen. ....
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One killed as Somali, Kenyan troops clash in border town
Date: 2018-01-12 10:19:05 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:26 - ID:7187019
MOGADISHU, Jan 12 (MENA) - A Somali soldier was killed in brief clashes between Somali and Kenyan troops in a border town, Mohamed Ahmed, a Somali military officer said on Friday. Somali soldiers fought Friday morning with Kenyan soldiers on ....
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Mali PM due in Algeria on Monday
Date: 2018-01-12 08:33:46 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:16 - ID:7186825
BAMAKO, Jan 12 (MENA) - Mali's Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga will pay a visit to Algeria on Monday for talks on bilateral relations. The visit is the first by Maiga since assuming his post last December, Mali news agency reported on ....
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Electricity Holding company celebrates graduation of new class of Nile Basin countries trainees
Date: 2018-01-11 13:26:20 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:46 - ID:7185255
CAIRO, Jan 11 (MENA) - President of the Electricity Holding company Gaber Desouky witnessed Thursday a graduation of 27 Nile Basin countries' trainees from Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan. In a statement, Desouky ....
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Scores feared dead and up to 100 missing after boat sinks off Libya's coast
Date: 2018-01-10 05:58:28 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:1 - ID:7183086
TRIPOLI, Jan 10 (MENA) - Survivors from a boat that foundered off Libya’s coast on Tuesday said about 50 people who had embarked with them were feared dead, while the coastguard said the number of missing might be as high as 100, The Guardian ....
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UN starts probe into attacks on Congo peacekeepers
Date: 2018-01-06 08:26:13 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:14 - ID:7176874
NEW YORK, Jan 6 (MENA) - The United Nations (UN) has launched an investigation into recent attacks on peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The investigation will focus on the Dec. 7 attack, in which 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers ....
