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Sisi arrives at Sharm el Sheikh conference center to open Africa 2017 forum
Date: 2017-12-08 11:46:16 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:27 - ID:7130191
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Dec 8 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has arrived at Sharm el Sheikh International Congress Center to open the Africa 2017 forum. A number of African heads of state and government as well as senior officials and ....
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UN says 1.25 million S. Sudanese are one step from famine
Date: 2017-12-08 09:49:36 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:23 - ID:7129823
NEW YORK, Dec 8 (MENA) - Over 1.25 million people in war-torn South Sudan are one step away from famine, twice as many as at the same time last year. In early 2018 half the country's population will be reliant on emergency food aid, the UN ....
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Egypt's Marghany elected head of Nile-Basin trade unions bloc
Date: 2017-12-06 18:04:02 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:58 - ID:7127028
CAIRO, Dec 6 (MENA) - Egypt's Gebaly el-Marghany has been elected to chair the Nile Basin Trade Unions Federation. The polls were held during the fourth forum of the Nile Basin Trade Unions in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El ....
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OIC condemns suicide bombing in northeastern Nigeria
Date: 2017-12-04 15:02:23 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Africa - SN:39 - ID:7122789
RIYADH, Dec 4 (MENA) - Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Yousef bin Ahmad Al Othaimeen condemned on Monday the terrorist bombing that hit a market in the town of Biu, northeastern Nigeria, leaving 13 people dead and ....
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13 killed in suicide bombing at northeastern Nigeria market
Date: 2017-12-02 14:51:27 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:41 - ID:7119940
ABUJA, Dec 2 (MENA) - A female suicide bomber pretending to wait in line for food handouts detonated her explosives, killing at least 13 people at a crowded market in northeastern Nigeria, authorities said. A second female bomber killed herself ....
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Grenade thrown at French troops in Burkina Faso wounds three before Macron's arrival
Date: 2017-11-28 07:13:29 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:8 - ID:7113155
OUAGADOUGOU, Nov 28 (MENA) - A grenade thrown at French soldiers wounded three civilians in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou shortly before the arrival of French President Emmanuel Macron, The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. The grenade ....
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Head of African affairs parliamentary committee, Ethiopian ambassador mull means of cooperation
Date: 2017-11-27 18:38:43 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:51 - ID:7112607
CAIRO, Nov 27 (MENA) - Head of the African Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives Sayed Feleifel on Monday met with the Ethiopian ambassador in Cairo at the Parliamentary headquarter in the presence of the committee’s members to discuss ....
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African journalists voiced solidarity with Egypt in fighting terrorism
Date: 2017-11-27 17:15:48 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:47 - ID:7112245
CAIRO, Nov 27 (MENA) - A delegation of African young journalists stressed on Monday solidarity with Egypt in its fight against terrorism as it constitutes the impediment which protects Africa, lauding the coherence and steadfastness of the Egyptian ....
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Mugabe to get $10m payoff and immunity for his family
Date: 2017-11-26 22:44:38 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:81 - ID:7110993
LONDON, Nov 26 (MENA) - Zimbabwean Former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace will receive a “golden handshake” worth many millions of dollars as part of a deal negotiated before the resignation of the ageing autocrat last week, one senior ....
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UN chief condemns deadly attacks against UN mission in Mali
Date: 2017-11-25 20:05:31 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:88 - ID:7109572
NEW YORK, Nov 25 (MENA) - Four United Nations peacekeepers and a member of the Malian armed forces were killed and 21 others were wounded on Friday in what Secretary-General António Guterres called "outrageous" attacks against the UN mission in the ....
