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UNHCR calls for calm, restraint after Rwanda refugee camp protests
Date: 2018-02-22 12:40:47 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:32 - ID:7259578
GENEVA, Feb 22 (MENA) - The UN Refugee Agency, is calling for calm and restraint after worrying reports of a refugee protest turning violent in Rwanda’s Kiziba refugee camp. Rwanda’s Kiziba refugee camps is located in the Karongi District, in ....
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Egypt elected rapporteur of 30th FAO Regional Conference for Africa
Date: 2018-02-22 12:19:01 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:28 - ID:7259374
CAIRO, Feb 22 (MENA) - Egypt has been elected rapporteur of the 30th FAO Regional Conference for Africa (ARC) by the participants of the ARC ministerial meetings, currently held in Khatroum. Egyptian Agriculture Minister Abdel Men'em el Banna is ....
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UN secretary general expresses concern over augmenting food insecurity rate in Africa
Date: 2018-02-22 11:28:35 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:24 - ID:7259421
KHARTOUM, Feb 22 (MENA) - UN Secretary General António Guterres expressed deep concern over the increase of the rates of food insecurity in Africa, asserting the importance of the agricultural sector in bridging the food gap. This came during his ....
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Ministerial talks of FAO regional conf. kick off in Sudan
Date: 2018-02-22 11:00:03 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:22 - ID:7259146
KHARTOUM, Feb 22 (MENA) - Ministerial meetings of the 30th FAO Regional Conference for Africa (ARC) kicked off early Thursday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Egyptian Agriculture Minister Abdel Moneim el Banna is participating in the ....
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US says drone strike in Somalia kills 3 al Shabab extremists
Date: 2018-02-21 21:52:04 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:79 - ID:7258438
MOGADISHU, Feb 21 (MENA) - The United States military says it has carried out a drone strike against al Shabab extremists in Somalia, killing three "terrorists,” ABC News reported on Wednesday. The US Africa Command statement says the airstrike ....
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Nigeria says 111 schoolgirls missing following Boko Haram attack
Date: 2018-02-21 20:28:46 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:73 - ID:7258705
ABUJA, Feb 21 (MENA) - As many as 111 Nigerian schoolgirls are thought missing following an attack by Islamist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, according to police. Yobe State Commissioner of Police Abdulmaliki Sumonu told journalists 111 girls ....
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French president to visit Mauritania in June
Date: 2018-02-19 06:39:16 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:8 - ID:7253144
NOUAKCHOTT, Feb 19 (MENA) - French President Emmanuel Macron will pay a working visit to Mauritania ahead of the African summit, due on June 30, according to Mauritanian newspapers out Monday. Macron will visit one of the Mauritanian regions ....
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Nigeria releases 475 Boko Haram suspects for rehabilitation
Date: 2018-02-18 18:13:34 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:91 - ID:7252727
ABUJA, Feb 18 (MENA) - A Nigerian court has released 475 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram for rehabilitation, the justice ministry said, as the country’s biggest legal investigation of the militant Islamist insurgency continued, The ....
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Egypt begins establishing joint farm in Eritrea
Date: 2018-02-18 09:01:48 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:13 - ID:7251554
CAIRO, Feb 18 (MENA) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation unveiled that work has started in the establishment of a joint Egyptian-Eritrean farm in Eritrea, the seventh such kind of farming projects to be built by Egypt in ....
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18 killed, 50 injured in Nigeria bomb blast
Date: 2018-02-17 15:00:13 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:55 - ID:7250801
ABUJA, Feb 17 (MENA) - Three suicide bombers have hit the town of Konduga in north-east Nigeria, killing at least 18 people, the BBC News reported Saturday. At least, 50 more were injured in the bomb blast. Two attacked a fish market and a ....
