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Six dead in Kenya overnight flooding with 11 others missing
Date: 2018-05-04 10:48:48 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:24 - ID:7383087
NAIROBI, May 4 (MENA) - Six people have drowned in Kenya in overnight flooding and 11 others are missing, local authorities said Friday, the latest of dozens of deaths caused by heavy seasonal rains in recent weeks, ABC News reported. "We are at ....
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UN says 80 killed in weeks of flooding in Kenya
Date: 2018-05-04 09:31:11 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:18 - ID:7382930
NAIROBI, May 4 (MENA) - The UN humanitarian agency says 80 people have been reported dead and hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes since March due to heavy rainfall in Kenya, the Washington Post reported on Friday. The UN statement ....
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Sudan, Ethiopia discuss boosting bilateral ties
Date: 2018-05-03 14:58:24 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:57 - ID:7381970
KHARTOUM, May 3 (MENA) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday discussed in two separate meetings with Sudanese First Vice President Bakri Hassan Salih and Vice President Hassabo Mohammed Abdel Rahman ways of boosting bilateral ....
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UN official: UN backs talks, not elections in South Sudan
Date: 2018-05-03 09:06:11 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:18 - ID:7381259
NEW YORK, May 3 (MENA) - The U.N.'s deputy peacekeeping chief says the United Nations opposes the South Sudan government's plan to hold elections if warring parties are unable to reconcile differences at peace talks now scheduled to start on May ....
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Ethiopian PM says keen on optimization of Nile water use
Date: 2018-05-02 22:23:57 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:95 - ID:7381099
KHARTOUM, May 2 (MENA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed asserted on Wednesday night his country’s keenness on optimization of the use of River Nile as resource of water. Ethiopia will set that goal for the relevant talks with Egypt and ....
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Ethiopian PM arrives in Sudan
Date: 2018-05-02 21:10:34 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:89 - ID:7380805
KHARTOUM, May 2 (MENA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived Wednesday in Khartoum on a two-day visit to the country, SUNA news agency reported. Sudanese President Omar al Bashir received Ahmed at the airport along with a number of senior ....
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Egyptian MP visits Chad to rally support for PAP candidacy
Date: 2018-05-02 19:00:25 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:80 - ID:7380741
N'DJAMENA, May 2 (MENA) - Lawmaker Mostafa el Gendi met on Wednesday with President of the National Assembly of Chad Haroun Kabadi as part of his African tour to drum up support for his bid to chair the Pan-African Parliament (PAP). During the ....
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OIC condemns Nigerian mosque bombing
Date: 2018-05-02 15:21:39 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Africa - SN:68 - ID:7380509
RIYADH, May 2 (MENA) - The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Youssef Al Othaimeen has condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks on worshippers during afternoon prayers at a ....
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Egypt denounces twin bomb blasts in Nigeria
Date: 2018-05-02 09:48:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:22 - ID:7379795
CAIRO, May 2 (MENA) - Egypt denounced the twin bomb blasts in a mosque as worshipers gathered for afternoon prayers and a marketplace in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State in Nigeria on Tuesday that left at least 60 people killed and others ....
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Female Somali aid worker shot dead in capital, police say
Date: 2018-05-01 20:46:52 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:72 - ID:7379318
MOGADISHU, May 1 (MENA) - Gunmen shot dead a female aid worker in Somalia's capital on Tuesday, ABC quoted police as saying, in the latest of several targeted attacks against humanitarians in the long-chaotic Horn of Africa nation. Maryan ....
