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Sudan's health min. hails agreements signed with Egypt
Date: 2018-10-28 15:30:06 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:64 - ID:7642987
KHARTOUM, Oct 28 (MENA) – Sudanese Health Minister Mohammed Abu Zaid Mustafa on Sunday lauded agreements that his country signed with Egypt in the health sector. Speaking to the Sudanese News Agency, Abu Zaid shed light on the executive program ....
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Two UN peacekeepers killed in Mali attacks
Date: 2018-10-28 05:53:03 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:1 - ID:7642021
BAMAKO, Oct 28 (MENA) - Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed and “several others” were wounded in two attacks in central and northern Mali on Saturday, Sky News reported quoting the United Nations mission in the country as saying. In a statement, ....
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Somalia says al-Shabab official killed
Date: 2018-10-27 08:08:34 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:10 - ID:7640912
MOGADISHU, Oct 27 (MENA) - Somalia's national security agency says a senior official with the al-Shabab extremist group has been killed, a day after the US military announced an airstrike against al-Shabab in the same area. Saturday's statement ....
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Ethiopia's House approves new cabinet with 50 percent women
Date: 2018-10-16 12:49:00 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:60 - ID:7624088
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 16 (MENA) - Ethiopia's new Cabinet is now a record 50 percent female, including the country's first woman defense minister, after lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved the nominations put forward by reformist Prime Minister Abiy ....
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Speaker of Ethiopia's House resigns
Date: 2018-10-16 12:26:38 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:55 - ID:7624061
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 16 (MENA) - Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) of Ethiopia, Muferiat Kamil has submitted her resignation after being appointed as Minister for the newly-established Ministry of Peace. The move comes as the ....
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UNHCR: Mass Congolese returns from Angola could lead to humanitarian crisis
Date: 2018-10-16 12:18:25 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:54 - ID:7624233
GENEVA, Oct 16 (MENA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by a fast-developing humanitarian situation in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sparked by mass returns from Angola over the last two weeks. Congolese ....
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WHO to probe Ebola outbreak in Congo on Wednesday
Date: 2018-10-15 17:41:11 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:98 - ID:7623175
GENEVA, Oct 15 (MENA) - The World Health Organization said its experts will meet this week to determine whether an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes a global health emergency. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom has convened ....
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2nd session of Afripol General Assembly kicks off in Algeria
Date: 2018-10-15 09:16:20 GMT - Algeria - Africa - SN:22 - ID:7621929
ALGIERS, Oct 15 (MENA) - The second session of the General Assembly the African Union Police Cooperation Mechanism (Afripol) kicked off on Monday. The get-together is organized Afripol and the General Directorate of National Security ....
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Eritrean president arrives in Addis Ababa
Date: 2018-10-14 12:07:23 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:39 - ID:7620754
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 14 (MENA) - Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki arrived in Addis Ababa Sunday on his second visit to Ethiopia for talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The talks will focus on the implementation of a peace and friendship ....
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16 killed in Nigeria pipeline fire
Date: 2018-10-12 20:52:30 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:58 - ID:7618873
LAGOS, Oct 12 (MENA) - Sixteen people were killed after a fire broke out on Friday on an oil pipeline in the southeast of Nigeria, a spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said. The fire occurred along the Osisioma axis near ....