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Ethiopia, EU sign agreement to reduce disaster risks
Date: 2019-05-09 17:36:59 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:65 - ID:7935402
ADDIS ABABA, May 9 (MENA) - Ethiopia and the European Union (EU) signed an agreement under which it will finance a disaster risk reduction program, Africa''s Ministry of Finance reported on Thursday. The EU will spend 33 million Euros during the ....
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UN honors 180 Egyptian peacekeepers in DR Congo
Date: 2019-05-08 16:04:26 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:59 - ID:7933907
CAIRO, May 8 (MENA) – The UN honored Wednesday 180 Egyptian peacekeepers for their efforts to maintain security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The honorees are part of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic ....
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Egypt attaches great importance to Africa: Higher education minster
Date: 2019-05-08 12:26:20 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:35 - ID:7933291
CAIRO, May 8 (MENA) - Egypt attaches great importance to Africa due to its strategic significance, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said Wednesday. He added the government spares no efforts to provide all ....
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South Africa starts voting in presidential, parliamentary elections
Date: 2019-05-08 08:29:35 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:12 - ID:7932991
PRETORIA, May 8 (MENA) - South Africans have started voting in presidential and parliamentary elections amid issues of corruption and unemployment, Fox News reported. Wednesday's vote comes 25 years after the end of apartheid, but despite the ....
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SIS launches website in Portuguese
Date: 2019-05-07 11:12:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:36 - ID:7931776
CAIRO, May 7 (MENA) - The State Information Service (SIS) launched a new website in the Portuguese language as part of its portal (Egypt-Africa) which was launched to communicate with the African nations to support Egypt's presidency of the African ....
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93 killed, injured in bush fire in South Sudan
Date: 2019-05-07 10:34:36 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:29 - ID:7931780
JUBA, May 7 (MENA) - At least 33 persons were killed and 60 others injured in bush fire that gutted four villages in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal region, Euronews reported. The South Sudan president’s spokesman said the toll was likely to ....
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Sports min. lauds Burundi-Egypt partnership to draw on expertise of youths
Date: 2019-05-06 15:50:08 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:57 - ID:7930996
CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) – Minister of Sports and Youth Ashraf Sobhi expressed his appreciation of Burundi after the African country has selected Egypt as a partner to carry out an exchange program for youth to draw on their expertise for the benefit of ....
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Egypt hub of African cooperation to achieve 2063 development plan - Justice min.
Date: 2019-05-06 13:59:17 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:47 - ID:7930744
CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - Minister of Justice Hossam Abdel Rahim said Egypt is the hub of cooperation among the African Union state members and contributes to achieving the 2063 development plan. He conveyed the greetings of President Abdel Fattah ....
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Tuesday 1st day of Ramadan in Senegal
Date: 2019-05-06 06:08:07 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:7 - ID:7930151
DAKAR, May 6 (MENA) - Senegal has announced that Tuesday will be the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, according to a Senegalese newspaper. Mali, however, declared Sunday was the first day of Ramadan. Mauritania has declared that ....
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First-ever Arabic courses to be taught at University of Burundi – Egypt’s amb.
Date: 2019-05-05 19:04:55 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:75 - ID:7929926
CAIRO, May 5 (MENA) - Egypt’s Ambassador to Burundi Abeer Basiony on Sunday said Arabic language courses will be taught for the first time at the University of Burundi’s languages center. She detailed that the first phase of the courses are set ....
