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Kenya official: 17 dead after bus plunges into river
Date: 2018-04-11 08:21:37 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:15 - ID:7343905
NAIROBI, April 11 (MENA) - A Kenyan official says a bus has plunged into the Siyapei River, causing the deaths of 17 passengers and seriously injuring four people. Narok County Commissioner George Natembeya said today that 43 passengers survived ....
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UNHCR chief arrives in Rwanda
Date: 2018-04-09 13:10:44 GMT - Rwanda - Africa - SN:37 - ID:7341236
KIGALI, April 9 (MENA) - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi arrived Monday to Rwanda after visiting Congo as part of his tour of the region which also includes Burundi in midweek. During his visit, he is expected to meet ....
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Ex-S. Africa leader corruption case adjourns until June
Date: 2018-04-06 10:03:03 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:28 - ID:7336390
PRETORIA, April 6 (MENA) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma sat in the dock of a packed courtroom on Friday to face corruption charges in a long-running case that fueled the public anger that finally forced him from power, The Washington ....
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S. Africa's former president Zuma faces corruption charges
Date: 2018-04-06 08:31:44 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:15 - ID:7336271
PRETORIA, April 6 (MENA) - South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma is due to appear in the Durban High Court on Friday to face charges of corruption in a years-old arms deal, as a scandal from the 1990s comes back to haunt him within weeks of his ....
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Two peacekeepers dead, 10 wounded in Mali attack: UN
Date: 2018-04-06 07:59:05 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:14 - ID:7336211
BAMAKO, April 6 (MENA) - Two UN peacekeepers were killed and 10 others wounded on Thursday night during an attack on their camp in northeastern Mali, the UN mission said in a statement. The peacekeepers came under mortar fire, the mission, known ....
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Tripartite meeting over Ethiopia Dam starts
Date: 2018-04-05 11:06:30 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:23 - ID:7334888
KHARTOUM, April 5 (MENA) - A tripartite meeting grouping the foreign and irrigation ministers and intelligence chiefs of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia began at the Sudanese capital on Thursday with the aim of resolving an impasse over the hydroelectric ....
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Egypt participates in 19th summit of ATU Administrative Council
Date: 2018-04-03 15:24:11 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:87 - ID:7331194
CAIRO, April 3 (MENA) - The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) will take part in 19th Ordinary Session of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) Administrative Council that is set to kick off Wednesday in Kampala, ....
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Ethiopia installs new PM amid hopes he can stop protests
Date: 2018-04-02 11:16:24 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:34 - ID:7328772
ADDIS ABABA,April 2 (MENA) - Ethiopia's legislature has elected young and outspoken Abiy Amhed as prime minister, amid hopes that he will be able to quell sustained anti-government protests in Africa's second most populous nation, ABC ....
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Egypt elected to chair African group at WTO agricultural negotiations
Date: 2018-04-02 10:52:48 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:30 - ID:7328774
CAIRO, April 2 (MENA) - Minister of Trade and Industry Tarek Qabil said the African group at the World Trade Organization has unanimously elected Egypt through its trade representation office in the permanent diplomatic mission in Geneva to be a ....
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Death toll in Nigerian herding village attack rises to 36
Date: 2018-03-30 22:41:29 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:80 - ID:7325225
ABUJA, March 30 (MENA) – The death toll from an attack by suspected cattle rustlers on a herding village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State has risen to 36, a newspaper reported on Friday. Motorcycle-riding gunmen stormed the village of ....
