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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 ....
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Gunmen kill 15 herders in Nigeria's Zamfara
Date: 2018-03-29 21:34:00 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:137 - ID:7323588
BAMAKO, March 29 (MENA) - Gunmen believed to be cattle thieves killed 15 herders in the latest bout of violence in northern Nigeria’s herding communities, police and a local official said Thursday. “Armed bandits attacked Bawon-Daji village ....
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Ethiopian parliament to appoint new premier Monday
Date: 2018-03-29 17:57:06 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:123 - ID:7323646
ADDIS ABABA, March 29 (MENA) – The Ethiopian House of Peoples' Representatives called for an extraordinary session to endorse the election of the Prime Minister to replace the outgoing Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegen, who resigned from his ....
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Somali lawmaker fatally shot in Mogadishu
Date: 2018-03-28 21:31:38 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:118 - ID:7321279
MOGADISHU, March 28 (MENA) - A Somali regional lawmaker was fatally shot Tuesday in Mogadishu, Voice of America on Wednesday quoted police as having said. Ruqiya Abshir Noor was shot in her home in the city's Shibis district, according to ....
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Sudan to host Horn of Africa economic bloc summit in April
Date: 2018-03-28 16:02:24 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:99 - ID:7320962
KHARTOUM, March 28 (MENA) - Khartoum will host on April 12 a summit of the Horn of Africa economic bloc, Sudanese State Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Mohamed Abdallah Idris said Wednesday. The Sudanese minister made the ....
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Ex-South African president Zuma to appear in court on corruption charges
Date: 2018-03-26 21:51:07 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:187 - ID:7317547
PRETORIA, March 26 (MENA) - Former South African President Jacob Zuma is to appear in court on April 6 to face corruption charges, The Voice of America reported on Monday. Police said Zuma was issued a summon Monday, continuing a dramatic fall ....
