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Kenyan President is ready to proceed with presidential elections
Date: 2017-10-18 11:48:29 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:28 - ID:7045804
NAIROBI, Oct 18 (MENA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta expressed his readiness to proceed with the new presidential elections, slated for October 26, BBC reported Wednesday. "We have no problem going back to elections. We are sure we will ....
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US says ready to back Somalia in terror fight
Date: 2017-10-16 21:23:38 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:78 - ID:7043167
MOGADISHU, Oct 16 (MENA) - The US mission to Somalia has stressed Washington's readiness to assist Mogadishu in the terror fight. The mission, in a statement, condemned as cowardly a deadly attack that left a round 280 people dead in the Somali ....
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Egypt takes part in African FMs meeting on immigration
Date: 2017-10-15 14:09:50 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:43 - ID:7040585
CAIRO, Oct 15 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry entrusted Egypt's Ambassador to Rwanda Namera Nejm to lead Egypt's delegation to the African Foreign Ministers meeting on immigration issues, slated for October 20-21 in Kigali. Organized by the ....
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Huge blast rocks Somalia's capital; police say 20 killed
Date: 2017-10-14 14:39:12 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:46 - ID:7039206
MOGADISHU, Oct 14 (MENA) - A huge explosion from a truck bomb killed 20 people in Somalia's capital, police said, as shaken residents called it the most powerful blast they'd heard in years. The explosion appeared to target a hotel on a busy road ....
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At least 4 dead as airplane crashes into sea near airport in Cote d’Ivoire
Date: 2017-10-14 11:10:39 GMT - Cote d'Ivoire - Africa - SN:30 - ID:7038715
ABIDJAN, Oct 14 (MENA) - At least four people died when a small cargo airplane crashed off the shores of Cote d'Ivoire. The turboprop plane was flying during a storm accompanied by heavy rain and lightning, Russia Today channel reported on ....
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AU donates food items to drought-hit Somalia
Date: 2017-10-11 20:03:03 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:102 - ID:7035007
MOGADISHU, Oct 11 (MENA) - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said on Wednesday that it had donated an assortment of food items worth 100,000 US dollars to the Somali government to aid victims affected by drought, Shabelle News ....
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Kenya: 2 dead as gunmen open fire killing university staff
Date: 2017-10-10 10:52:14 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:26 - ID:7032251
NAIROBI, Oct 10 (MENA) - A Kenyan police official says gunmen have killed two employees of a technical university in Mombasa on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast in a suspected extremist attack, ABC News reported on Tuesday. The assault occurred as ....
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AMISOM suffers from heavy losses in attack by Al Shabaab in Somalia
Date: 2017-10-08 15:20:35 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:56 - ID:7029577
MOGADISHU, Oct 8 (MENA) - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) suffered Sunday heavy losses in a land mine explosion planted by terrorist Al Shabaab group in Shabelle south of Somalia, eyewitnesses told Somali Shabelle media network. The ....
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UN Rights office denounces killings of demonstrators in Cameroon
Date: 2017-10-07 19:39:21 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:65 - ID:7028273
GENEVA, Oct 7 (MENA) - The UN Human Rights office denounced the killings of demonstrators from Cameroon’s Anglophone community in towns across the Northwest and Southwest regions, The Voice of America (VOA) reported Saturday. Government figures ....
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East Congo militia attacks UN base, 5 killed
Date: 2017-10-06 16:07:57 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - Africa - SN:56 - ID:7026800
KINSHASA, Oct 6 (MENA) - Militia fighters in eastern Congo attacked a UN peacekeeping base on Friday, triggering clashes that left two of the fighters dead and two peacekeepers slightly wounded, the UN mission was quoted by CBC News as ....
