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Ghana confirms its first cases of coronavirus
Date: 2020-03-13 11:19:45 GMT - Ghana - Africa - SN:30 - ID:8351872
ACCRA, March 13 (MENA) - Ghana confirmed its first cases of coronavirus on Friday. Ghana’s health ministry said its two cases were people who had returned recently from Norway and Turkey. “These are imported cases of COVID-19. Both patients ....
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First coronavirus case detected in Kenya
Date: 2020-03-13 08:46:51 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:17 - ID:8351684
NAIROBI, March 13 (MENA) - Kenya announced on Friday the first case of coronavirus in the country. Kenyan Minister of Health Mutahi Kagwe explained at a press conference that the discovered case had traveled to Kenya from the US and was detected ....
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S. Korea to delay rotation of troops in South Sudan over virus concerns
Date: 2020-03-12 08:00:22 GMT - south korea - Africa - SN:11 - ID:8350305
SEOUL, March 12 (MENA) - South Korea has decided to delay the rotational deployment of a new peace-keeping contingent of troops to South Sudan over concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, Yonhap quoted military officials as saying Thursday. The ....
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AU chief urges reaching consensus formula for GERD
Date: 2020-03-06 15:16:26 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:48 - ID:8342280
KHARTOUM, March 6 (MENA) - Chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission Moussa Faki has called for reaching a consensus formula for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Asked about the current deadlock in negotiations between Egypt, ....
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Dean of African Diplomatic Corps hails Egypt's anti-illegal migration role
Date: 2020-03-02 14:21:02 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:55 - ID:8335351
CAIRO, March 1 (MENA) - Dean of the African Diplomatic Corps in Egypt Mohamadou Labarang Monday praised Egypt's pioneering role and major efforts in combating the illegal immigration phenomenon in the Mediterranean region. Addressing a symposium ....
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US airstrikes kill 2 Al Qaeda affiliated militants in Somalia
Date: 2020-02-29 10:39:53 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:21 - ID:8332610
MOGADISHU, Feb 29 (MENA) - US forces have killed two terrorists in two airstrikes in Somalia on Friday, Radio Shabelle said on Saturday. US Africa Command (AFRICOM), working in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, has carried out ....
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African Union to deploy 3,000 troops to Sahel region
Date: 2020-02-27 20:08:06 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:88 - ID:8330969
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 27 (MENA) - The African Union confirmed Thursday that it expected to send a temporary deployment of 3,000 troops to West Africa's Sahel region, where regional forces are struggling to respond to a nearly eight-year-old onslaught by ....
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Somalia edges closer to first democratic election in half a century
Date: 2020-02-24 10:43:32 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:33 - ID:8325127
LONDON, Feb 24 (MENA) - The president of Somalia has signed a landmark federal law, paving the way for the country to hold its first popular election in half a century, The Guardian reported. A long awaited “one person, one vote” election could ....
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Africa's senior chief judges urge documenting Cairo meetings
Date: 2020-02-23 14:38:42 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:37 - ID:8323936
CAIRO, Feb 23 (MENA) - Participants of the Cairo's fourth high-level meeting of chief judges of African supreme courts and constitutional councils called for institutionalizing and documenting their annual meetings in Cairo in order to give it the ....
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Irrigation ministry praises strong cooperation with Uganda in water domain
Date: 2020-02-23 14:02:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:33 - ID:8323929
CAIRO, Feb 23 (MENA) - The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation has praised as strong cooperation between Egypt and Uganda in the water domain. A statement issued by the Ministry on Sunday said "In line with the cooperation protocol signed ....
