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Blast kills 3 bomb disposal experts in Somalia's capital
Date: 2017-05-17 11:41:02 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:38 - ID:6815043
MOGADISHU, May 17 (MENA) - Three bomb disposal experts were killed in a car bomb blast west of Somalia's capital on Wednesday, Fox News quoted police as saying. The bomb was detonated as the experts were trying to dismantle a car laden with ....
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2 Somali soldiers killed while defusing car bomb in Mogadishu
Date: 2017-05-17 11:12:46 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:31 - ID:6814969
MOGADISHU, May 17 (MENA) - Two Somali soldiers were killed on Wednesday when a booby-trapped car went off while they were defusing it. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but al Shabaab terrorist group recently launched several ....
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Massive explosion rocks Mogadishu
Date: 2017-05-17 10:38:09 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:22 - ID:6814880
MOGADISHU, May 17 (MENA) - A car loaded with explosives blew up at a checkpoint in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday in the latest attack by suspected Al-Shabaab militants. According to police, the huge explosion occurred at Wadajir ....
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Latest fighting kills 37 people in Central African Republic
Date: 2017-05-11 22:19:20 GMT - Central African Republic - Africa - SN:78 - ID:6807596
BANGUI, May 11 (MENA) - A local Central African Republic branch of the Red Cross says that days of clashes in the central region have left at least 37 people dead and many displaced. The group said violence flared in Alindao, some 100km east of ....
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Three injured as South Sudan VP attacked
Date: 2017-05-09 15:15:31 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:62 - ID:6804082
JUBA, May 9 (MENA) - Gunmen attacked on Tuesday the convoy of South Sudan's First Vice President Taban Deng Gai, wounding three of his bodyguards, a government official had been quoted as saying. The ambush took place on a highway linking the ....
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UN: 2m children displaced by South Sudan conflict
Date: 2017-05-08 06:27:57 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:9 - ID:6801436
NEW YORK, May 8 (MENA) - The United Nations said that the civil war in South Sudan has forced more than two million children to flee their homes, Sky news reported Monday. "No refugee crisis today worries me more than South Sudan, Valentin ....
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26 people killed after 2 buses collide on Nigerian highway
Date: 2017-05-06 20:42:16 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:65 - ID:6799856
ABUJA, May 6 (MENA) - Authorities say at least 26 people have died after two buses collided and caught fire on a busy highway in western Nigeria, ABC News reported. Oyo state police spokesman Adekunle Ajisebutu said Saturday that 11 others were ....
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WHO: Somalia launches cholera vaccination campaign
Date: 2017-05-04 12:42:45 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:46 - ID:6796662
GENEVA, May 4 (MENA) – WHO and the Federal Ministry of Health of Somalia launched the first round of a preventative oral cholera vaccination campaign (OCV) on Thursday in Baidoa at the Baidoa Regional Hospital, targeting 224,000 persons aged 1 year ....
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Malian gov't condemns vicious attack on military convoy
Date: 2017-05-03 08:01:33 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:12 - ID:6794512
BAMAKO, May 3 (MENA) - The Malian government condemned on Wednesday a brutal attack on a military convoy in the country's central region. Nine soldiers were killed and five injured in an ambush of the military convoy. Armed assailants attacked ....
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Acute malnutrition surges in Somalia children: UNICEF
Date: 2017-05-02 12:53:30 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:38 - ID:6793438
GENEVA, May 2 (MENA) - Some 1.4 million children in drought-hit Somalia are projected to suffer acute malnutrition this year, 50 percent more than estimated in January, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) was quoted by Business Insider as saying on ....
