Africa

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  • COMESA combined annual GDP hit dlrs 768 billion: COMESA secretary general

    Date: 2018-12-06 14:33:53 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:58 - ID:7702070

    SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Dec 6 (MENA) - COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe said that the annual total GDP of the COMESA amounts to dlrs 768 billion. In press statements, Kapwepwe said that the COMESA includes 21 African states with a total ....

  • COMESA chief forecasts GPD of African economies to hit $ 29 trillion by 2050

    Date: 2018-12-06 14:10:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:53 - ID:7702386

    SHARM EL SHEIKH, Dec 6 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Chileshe Mpundu has forecast that the GDP of African states' economies will hit USD 29 trillion by 2050, up from the current USD two ....

  • Egypt partakes in donors conf.of G5 Sahel in Nouakchott

    Date: 2018-12-06 13:29:10 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:47 - ID:7702273

    NOUAKCHOTT, Dec 6 (MENA) - An Egyptian delegation under Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs Hamdi Loza took part in a donors conference for development that opened Thursday for the leaders of the Sahel five member-states in ....

  • Arab Contractors honored as best contracting company in Uganda in 2018

    Date: 2018-12-05 09:59:54 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:23 - ID:7700216

    CAIRO, Dec 5 (MENA) - Ugandan Vice President Edward Ssekandi honored Egypt's Arab Contractors Company as the best contracting company in Uganda in 2018. The move came in appreciation of the company's commitment to international standards while ....

  • COMESA organizes workshop for investment promotion agencies ahead of Africa 2018

    Date: 2018-12-05 09:36:58 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:18 - ID:7700212

    SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Dec 5 (MENA) - The Regional Investment Agency (RIA) of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) organized a workshop on Wednesday for the investment promotion agencies in Africa in the run-up to the Africa ....

  • Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari denies dying and being replaced by Sudanese clone

    Date: 2018-12-03 07:17:41 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:9 - ID:7696634

    ABUJA, Dec 3 (MENA) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has denied claims he died and was replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumour that has circulated on social media for months, ABC News reported. Buhari, who is ....

  • 9 al-Shabab militants killed in US airstrike in southern Somalia

    Date: 2018-12-01 18:54:54 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:41 - ID:7695032

    MOGADISHU, Dec 1 (MENA) - The US military said it has killed nine members of the al-Shabab extremist group with a new airstrike in southern Somalia, ABC news reported on Saturday. The airstrike occurred on Friday near Lebede, a community in the ....

  • 21 killed, injured in car bomb blast in Mogadishu

    Date: 2018-11-26 11:52:34 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:50 - ID:7687082

    MOGADISHU, Nov 26 (MENA) - At least six people were killed and 15 others injured in a car bomb blast in the capital, Mogadishu, police said. The car bomb was detonated Monday at a busy junction in Mogadishu's Wadajir district, said Capt. Mohamed ....

  • 12 killed in suspected terrorist attack in Mozambique

    Date: 2018-11-25 08:36:54 GMT - Mozambique - Africa - SN:13 - ID:7684893

    MAPUTO, Nov 25 (MENA) - Twelve people have been killed in a suspected terrorist attack in northern Mozambique, with thousands of villagers fleeing the area into neighbouring Tanzania, Radio France Internationale reported on Sunday. "There was an ....

  • Nigeria Metele attack: President Buhari speaks of deep shock

    Date: 2018-11-25 07:01:23 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:7 - ID:7684837

    ABUJA, Nov 25 (MENA) - Nigeria's leader has vowed to close the "loopholes" which allowed militants to reportedly kill dozens of soldiers at a base in north-eastern Borno state, the BBC reported on Sunday. President Muhammadu Buhari addressed last ....

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