Africa

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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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • African justice ministers to meet in Cairo Monday

    Date: 2019-05-05 10:57:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:26 - ID:7928996

    CAIRO, May 5 (MENA) - African justice ministers will meet Monday in Cairo to endorse a project to merge the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) into the African Union (AU). The ministers will also discuss the African Peer Review ....

  • 18 killed in ethnic attacks in Mali -- UN

    Date: 2019-05-04 20:08:55 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:62 - ID:7928489

    BAMAKO, May 4 (MENA) - At least 18 civilians were killed in two related attacks this week in central Mali, the United Nations MINUSMA peacekeeping mission said on Saturday, as the death toll from fighting between local hunters and herders continues ....

  • Ebola outbreak deaths top 1,000 in Congo

    Date: 2019-05-04 07:58:35 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - Africa - SN:13 - ID:7927455

    KINSHASA, May 4 (MENA) - More than 1,000 people have died from Ebola in eastern Congo since August, the country’s health minister said Friday as hostility toward health workers continues to hamper efforts to contain the second-deadliest outbreak of ....

  • AU committee on legal affairs discusses statute, bylaws of AUDA

    Date: 2019-05-03 15:55:55 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:43 - ID:7926844

    CAIRO, May 3 (MENA) - The African Union (AU) Special Technical Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on Friday discussed in a meeting the statute and the bylaws of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA), as well as the draft statute of the ....

  • Sports minister meets with Ghana amb. to Egypt

    Date: 2019-05-02 19:59:35 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:48 - ID:7926033

    CAIRO, May 2 (MENA) – Youth and Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhi praised historical ties between Egypt and Ghana during a meeting he held Thursday with the African country’s Ambassador to Egypt Winfred Hammond. The minister informed the ambassador ....

  • Cairo presents 2001-2017 report to African commission on human rights .. 2 Cairo

    Date: 2019-05-01 18:55:00 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:56 - ID:7924625

    The report tackled the aggravating risks of illegal migration and helping people who travel abroad illegally in Africa and the procedures adopted by Egypt to face this problem. The report touched upon human trafficking, citing that the Egyptian ....

  • 25 people killed in Boko Haram attack on Nigerian village

    Date: 2019-04-30 16:52:06 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:61 - ID:7923380

    ABUJA, April 30 (MENA) - Victims' relatives said suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 25 people who had just returned home from a wedding, ABC News reported. Rebecca Malgwi said two of her ....

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