Africa

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  • UNHCR seeks $1.4 bln to support South Sudanese refugees in region

    Date: 2024-03-28 18:42:33 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:58 - ID:10642407

    GENEVA, March 28 (MENA) – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with 123 partners, is seeking $1.4 billion this year to meet the needs of 2.3 million South Sudanese refugees living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, ....

  • AfCFTA inks MoU to extend its reach to North Africa

    Date: 2024-03-28 16:16:48 GMT - Ghana - Africa - SN:50 - ID:10642346

    ACCRA, March 28 (MENA) - The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and N Gage Consulting have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on enhancing implementation of the AfCFTA within Africa, with a focus on North Africa and ....

  • Humanitarians raise concern for Somalia cholera outbreak amid vaccine dose shortage: UN

    Date: 2024-03-28 08:28:20 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:13 - ID:10641569

    NEW YORK, March 28 (MENA) - UN humanitarians said they are concerned about the spread of cholera in nearly half of the 72 Somalia districts amid a severe shortage in oral vaccine doses. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ....

  • Nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria freed after over two weeks in captivity

    Date: 2024-03-24 10:09:02 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:16 - ID:10636155

    WASHINGTON/ABUJA, March 24 (MENA) - Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, local officials said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched ....

  • Risk of famine in Sudan is of extreme concern - UK diplomat

    Date: 2024-03-20 18:53:56 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:62 - ID:10632111

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  • 100 villagers kidnapped in latest mass abduction in northern Nigeria

    Date: 2024-03-18 19:56:36 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:61 - ID:10629377

    ABUJA, March 18 (MENA) - Armed gangs attacked two villages in Nigeria's northwest over the weekend and seized at least 100 people from their homes, residents and a state official were quoted by ABC News as saying on Monday, in the latest mass ....

  • Egypt sets up 8 solar-powered groundwater stations in S.Sudan: Irrigation min.

    Date: 2024-03-18 11:29:08 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:21 - ID:10628470

    CAIRO, March 18 (MENA) - Egypt has set up eight solar-powered stations for drinking groundwater in the South Sudanese states of Central Equatoria and Jonglei in January, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Sewilam said on Monday. He ....

  • Niger ends military agreement with US

    Date: 2024-03-17 10:49:17 GMT - Niger - Africa - SN:21 - ID:10627055

    NIAMEY, March 17 (MENA) - Niger’s military government announced that it has ended an accord with the US that allowed military personnel and civilian staff from the Department of Defense to operate in Niger – days after holding high-level talks with ....

  • Tunisia stresses importance of AU Commission elections

    Date: 2024-03-15 19:29:04 GMT - Tunisia - Africa - SN:52 - ID:10625477

    TUNIS, March 15 (MENA) - Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Mounir Ben Rjiba stressed the importance of the upcoming African Union (AU) Commission's elections, amid the current regional and ....

  • UNICEF warns of catastrophic loss of lives in Sudan

    Date: 2024-03-15 13:37:11 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:35 - ID:10625094

    GENEVA, March 15 (MENA) - The UN children’s agency warned on Friday that up to 3.7 million children are expected to be acutely malnourished this year in Sudan, including 730,000 who need lifesaving treatment, according to media reports. Sudan’s ....

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