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Speaker of Ethiopia's House resigns
Date: 2018-10-16 12:26:38 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:55 - ID:7624061
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 16 (MENA) - Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) of Ethiopia, Muferiat Kamil has submitted her resignation after being appointed as Minister for the newly-established Ministry of Peace. The move comes as the ....
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UNHCR: Mass Congolese returns from Angola could lead to humanitarian crisis
Date: 2018-10-16 12:18:25 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:54 - ID:7624233
GENEVA, Oct 16 (MENA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by a fast-developing humanitarian situation in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sparked by mass returns from Angola over the last two weeks. Congolese ....
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WHO to probe Ebola outbreak in Congo on Wednesday
Date: 2018-10-15 17:41:11 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:98 - ID:7623175
GENEVA, Oct 15 (MENA) - The World Health Organization said its experts will meet this week to determine whether an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes a global health emergency. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom has convened ....
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2nd session of Afripol General Assembly kicks off in Algeria
Date: 2018-10-15 09:16:20 GMT - Algeria - Africa - SN:22 - ID:7621929
ALGIERS, Oct 15 (MENA) - The second session of the General Assembly the African Union Police Cooperation Mechanism (Afripol) kicked off on Monday. The get-together is organized Afripol and the General Directorate of National Security ....
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Eritrean president arrives in Addis Ababa
Date: 2018-10-14 12:07:23 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:39 - ID:7620754
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 14 (MENA) - Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki arrived in Addis Ababa Sunday on his second visit to Ethiopia for talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The talks will focus on the implementation of a peace and friendship ....
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16 killed in Nigeria pipeline fire
Date: 2018-10-12 20:52:30 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:58 - ID:7618873
LAGOS, Oct 12 (MENA) - Sixteen people were killed after a fire broke out on Friday on an oil pipeline in the southeast of Nigeria, a spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said. The fire occurred along the Osisioma axis near ....
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At least 34 people dead after landslide in eastern Uganda
Date: 2018-10-12 09:40:59 GMT - Uganda - Africa - SN:15 - ID:7617938
KAMPALA, Oct 12 (MENA) - A landslide triggered by torrential rains in eastern Uganda has killed at least 34 people, the Ugandan Red Cross has said. Martin Owor, Commissioner for disaster preparedness and management, said the landslides tumbled ....
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Africa's youngest billionaire kidnapped by gunmen from luxury hotel
Date: 2018-10-11 20:15:14 GMT - Tanzania - Africa - SN:103 - ID:7617760
DODOMA, Oct 11 (MENA) - Gunmen have kidnapped an African billionaire from a luxury hotel in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, police said. Mohammed Dewji, 43, was taken by the men who waylaid him as he left the hotel gym after his early ....
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Cairo to host Lake Victoria-Mediterranean navigational line meetings
Date: 2018-10-11 13:31:23 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:62 - ID:7616976
CAIRO, Oct 11 (MENA) - Cairo will host on Tuesday the fourth advisory board meetings for the navigational line between Lake Victoria and the Mediterranean Sea project. The navigation line project linking Lake Victoria and the Mediterranean Sea ....
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Italian PM to visit Ethiopia, Eritrea
Date: 2018-10-09 12:53:39 GMT - Italy - Africa - SN:62 - ID:7613491
ROME, Oct 9 (MENA) - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is scheduled to visit Ethiopia and Eritrea on Thursday and Friday, the Italian AKI Press reported on Tuesday. This is considered the first tour in years to be made by an Italian prime minister ....
