Africa

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  • Planning min.: 52nd ECA session focuses on achieving comprehensive, sustainable development in Africa

    Date: 2019-03-25 11:31:47 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:33 - ID:7864515

    CAIRO, March 25 (MENA) - Planning Minister Hala el Saeed said that the 52nd Session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development will contribute to achieving comprehensive ....

  • Health minister inks cooperation protocol with Somalia

    Date: 2019-03-24 16:01:27 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:62 - ID:7863481

    CAIRO, March 24 (MENA) - Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed on Sunday signed with her Somali counterpart Fawzia Abikar a cooperation protocol to support the healthcare system in Somalia. This came in pursuance of the directives issued ....

  • Planning minister: Egypt keen to take part in various African activities

    Date: 2019-03-24 13:35:52 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:48 - ID:7863284

    CAIRO, March 24 (MENA) - Minister of Planning Dr Hala el Saeed Sunday asserted Egypt's keenness to take part in various activities related to Africa. In statements before flying to Marrakech to take part in the 52nd meeting of the United Nations ....

  • OIC chief deplores terrorist attacks in Niger, Chad

    Date: 2019-03-24 09:18:00 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Africa - SN:16 - ID:7862710

    CAIRO, March 24 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen has strongly condemned heinous attacks by Boko Haram in Niger and Chad on Thursday. In an OIC statement, Othaimeen ....

  • 11 killed in Al-Shabab attack in Mogadishu

    Date: 2019-03-23 20:37:45 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:57 - ID:7862380

    MOGADISHU, March 23 (MENA) - Al-Shabab militants in Somalia attacked on Saturday a government building in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 11 people, according to the BBC news. Deputy labor minister Saqar Ibrahim Abdala and several ....

  • Ethiopian Airlines to sue US newspapers for publishing fake news

    Date: 2019-03-23 20:35:11 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:55 - ID:7862376

    ADDIS ABABA, March 23 (MENA) - Ethiopian Airlines said on Saturday that it will sue two US-based newspapers, The New York Times and Washington Post, for publishing baseless defamatory stories, The Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported on ....

  • 115 reported killed in armed attack in central Mali

    Date: 2019-03-23 20:22:41 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:54 - ID:7862377

    BAMAKO, March 23 (MENA) - Militia fighters descended on a village in central Mali before dawn Saturday, killing at least 115 people in the latest deadly attack blamed on an ethnic militia, local authorities were quoted by ABC news as saying. The ....

  • At least 293 people dead in Mozambique after Cyclone: UN

    Date: 2019-03-23 10:06:34 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:15 - ID:7861385

    NEW YORK, March 23 (MENA) - At least 293 people have died in Mozambique after a cyclone that led to catastrophic flooding, The New York Times reported, citing a statement by the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) ....

  • UN Economic Commission for Africa: EU devours 31% of African exports from 2010 to 2017

    Date: 2019-03-21 10:14:19 GMT - Morocco - Africa - SN:23 - ID:7858673

    MARRAKESH, March 21 (MENA) - The UN Economic Commission for Africa said the European Union devoured about 31 percent of African exports from 2010 to 2017. The commission, in a report Thursday, said that the volume of foreign trade of African ....

  • 5 Burkina troops killed in separate blasts, security official

    Date: 2019-03-18 20:31:57 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:102 - ID:7854756

    OUAGADOUGOU, March 18 (MENA) - Five members of the security forces were killed in roadside bomb attacks in eastern Burkina Faso at the weekend, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Monday. A policeman and a soldier were killed on Saturday when ....

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