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Aung San Suu Kyi faces fresh corruption charges in Myanmar as trial nears
Date: 2021-06-10 08:52:38 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - Africa - SN:22 - ID:9002551
NAYPYIDAW, June 10 (MENA) - Myanmar’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other former officials from her government have been hit with fresh corruption charges, according to The Guardian. Citing the country’s anti-corruption commission, the ....
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Africa: Covid-19 death toll hits over 132,000 across continent
Date: 2021-06-07 15:04:39 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:63 - ID:8997871
ADDIS ABABA, June 7 (MENA) - African countries reported 4.925 million confirmed Covid-19 cases and 132,500 fatalities because of coronavirus, announced the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union. The centers ....
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AU condemns Burkina Faso’s worst attack in years
Date: 2021-06-06 16:53:54 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:73 - ID:8996108
ADDIS ABABA, June 6 (MENA) - Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki on Sunday condemned a terror attack that killed at least 132 people in Burkina Faso. The attackers struck during the night on Friday, killing residents of the ....
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Egypt decries Burkina Faso’s terrorist attack
Date: 2021-06-05 20:27:06 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:75 - ID:8994739
CAIRO, June 5 (MENA) – Egypt has strongly condemned a terrorist attack in northern Burkina Faso, which left over 100 civilians dead. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that the Egyptian government and people extend their deepest ....
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Eleven killed in fresh violence in eastern DR Congo
Date: 2021-06-04 12:37:49 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - Africa - SN:27 - ID:8992466
KINSHASA, June 4 (MENA) - At least 11 people were killed by an armed group in eastern DR Congo, sources said, bringing the troubled region's death toll to at least 70 since the start of the week. Eleven miners in the gold-rich territory of Djugu, ....
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AGN meetings in Sharm to unify African position ahead of COP26 summit: Environment min.
Date: 2021-06-02 18:12:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:101 - ID:8989606
CAIRO, June 2 (MENA) - The African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN) meetings in Sharm El Sheikh will help create a unified African negotiating position, Minister of Environment Yassmin Fouad said Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Fouad ....
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Angolan president sacks head of security service
Date: 2021-06-01 15:12:08 GMT - Angola - Africa - SN:65 - ID:8987575
LUANDA, June 1 (MENA) - Angolan President João Lourenço Tuesday sacked the security minister and head of security and intelligence service over a financial scandal, Afro News reported. “General Pedro Sebastião is sacked from the position of ....
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Tanzania not to send troops to Mozambique
Date: 2021-06-01 13:46:06 GMT - Tanzania - Africa - SN:54 - ID:8987253
DAR ES SALAAM, June 1 (MENA) - Tanzania will not send troops to Mozambique to counter insurgents in gas rich Carbo Del Gado Province which is close to the border between the two countries, according to the Citizen newspaper of Tanzania. The ....
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Gunmen abduct school children in latest Nigeria kidnapping raid
Date: 2021-05-31 22:04:36 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:118 - ID:8986188
ABUJA, May 31 (MENA) - Students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger were indiscriminately shot at and abducted Sunday by a group of "armed bandits," state police said in a statement. At least one person was ....
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AU, AL discuss boosting Afro-Arab cooperation
Date: 2021-05-31 17:16:31 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:98 - ID:8985861
ADDIS ABABA, May 31 (MENA) - African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye and Permanent Representative of Arab League to the AU Saleh Sahboun reviewed here on Monday ways to enhance and diversify mutual ....
