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132 dead in Kenya since March as seasonal rains cause floods
Date: 2018-05-09 22:35:05 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:80 - ID:7392529
NAIROBI, May 9 (MENA) - Kenya's government says at least 132 people have died since March from floods caused by seasonal rains, ABC News reported. The floods hit as the East African nation was recovering from a severe drought that had affected ....
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Somalia suicide bomber strikes market, kills at least 10
Date: 2018-05-09 20:53:04 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:75 - ID:7392616
MOGADISHU, May 9 (MENA) - A Somali official says a suicide bomber has killed at least 10 people at a crowded market in a southern town, Fox News reported on Wednesday. Security official Ali Mohamed said the bomber, thought to be with the Al ....
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Africa is strategic depth of Egypt -- AOI chief
Date: 2018-05-09 13:22:51 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:37 - ID:7391888
CAIRO, May 9 (MENA) - Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) Abdel Aziz Seifeddin said on Wednesday that Africa and especially the Nile Basin countries constitute the strategic depth of Egypt. The remark was made at a ....
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Minister: Egypt adopts plan for African digital market
Date: 2018-05-09 11:32:54 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:28 - ID:7391627
CAIRO, May 9 (MENA) - Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser el Qady has expounded the Egyptian plan towards shifting into a unified digital market for Africa. Addressing the fourth summit for Africa's shift into the ....
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Kenya says 9 soldiers killed in attack in Somalia
Date: 2018-05-07 22:00:43 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:96 - ID:7388860
NAIROBI, May 7 (MENA) - Kenya's president said on Monday that nine Kenyan soldiers were killed when extremists attacked their patrol car in neighboring Somalia. President Uhuru Kenyatta mourned the soldiers who were killed Sunday evening in an ....
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Landslides kill 18 in Rwanda
Date: 2018-05-07 19:26:17 GMT - Rwanda - Africa - SN:83 - ID:7388670
KIGALI, May 7 (MENA) - Landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 18 people in Rwanda's Northern and Western province over the weekend, pushing the death toll since January to more than 200, Euro News quoted government official as saying ....
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Biggest ever cholera vaccine drive underway in Africa: UN
Date: 2018-05-07 17:46:29 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:77 - ID:7388609
GENEVA, May 7 (MENA) - The biggest cholera vaccine drive in history is under way in Africa aimed at reining in a spate of outbreaks across the continent, The Straits Times quoted the UN and charity alliance Gavi as saying Monday. More than two ....
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Egypt mulls greater agricultural cooperation with Uganda
Date: 2018-05-07 12:01:25 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:37 - ID:7387455
CAIRO, May 7 (MENA) - Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Abdul Moneim el Banna on Monday discussed with his Ugandan counterpart Vincent Ssempijja means of increasing cooperation in agricultural areas. This came during a meeting held at ....
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Death toll from S.African gold mine collapse rises to 7
Date: 2018-05-05 20:50:12 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:68 - ID:7385217
JOHANNESBURG, May 5 (MENA) - A mining company in South Africa said seven workers died and six were rescued after an earth tremor caused a rock fall at a gold mine, ABC news reported on Saturday The Sibanye-Stillwater company said that 13 miners ....
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AU delegation to visit Sudan Saturday
Date: 2018-05-04 15:44:18 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:56 - ID:7383524
KHARTOUM, May 4 (MENA) – A delegation from the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) will start an official visit to Sudan on Saturday to discuss the latest developments in Darfur. During the visit that will last till Wednesday, May 9, ....
