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Uganda's police spokesman, 2 aides shot dead in Kampala
Date: 2017-03-17 10:08:05 GMT - Uganda - Africa - SN:30 - ID:6713341
KAMPALA, March 17 (MENA) - The spokesman for Uganda's police has been shot dead by gunmen outside his home in the capital, a government official was quoted by ABC News as saying on Friday. Andrew Felix Kaweesi was being driven to work earlier in ....
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Two killed in attack on South Sudan aid convoy: IOM
Date: 2017-03-16 18:38:34 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:87 - ID:6711005
JUBA, March 16 (MENA) - The International Organization for Migration said Thursday that two people were killed when gunmen attacked an aid convoy in South Sudan, where chronic violence has led to famine, Daily Mail reported. The aid organization ....
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Death toll from rubbish dump landslide in Ethiopia rises to 113
Date: 2017-03-15 19:16:21 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:83 - ID:6703873
ADDIS ABABA, March 15 (MENA) – At least 113 people were killed in a recent giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump near the capital Addis Ababa, Sky News TV reported on Wednesday. Part of the largest hillside at the Koshe landfill ....
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6 killed in Nigeria as teenage girls detonate explosives
Date: 2017-03-15 13:55:56 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:57 - ID:6700833
ABUJA, March 15 (MENA) - Nigerian officials say at least six people have been killed as four teenage girls detonated explosives worn on their bodies on the outskirts of Maiduguri city, ABC News reported on Wednesday. The National Emergency ....
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Death toll from Ethiopia's rubbish landslide rises to 72
Date: 2017-03-14 13:07:20 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:45 - ID:6694957
ADDIS ABABA, March 14 (MENA) - Seventy-two people have now been confirmed dead following the weekend landslide at a vast rubbish dump on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, the BBC reported on Tuesday. The search for more ....
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Death toll from Ethiopia's landslide rises to 65
Date: 2017-03-14 11:29:19 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:23 - ID:6694017
ADDIS ABABA, March 14 (MENA) - Ethiopian officials have confirmed that 65 people died in the weekend's landslide at a rubbish dump in the capital, Addis Ababa, the BBC reported on Tuesday. The search for more victims is continuing and funerals ....
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Global(1):Aviation Leaders From Over 130 Countries Participate in World ATM Congress 2017
Date: 2017-03-14 09:38:51 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:13 - ID:6693205
MADRID, March 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The fifth annual World ATM Congress concluded Thursday, 9 March. As the world's largest air traffic management (ATM) exhibition, the Congress attracted a record-breaking 7,757 registrants and 230 exhibitors ....
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Nile-COM subcommittee concludes meetings in Khartoum
Date: 2017-03-13 22:44:10 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:105 - ID:6691625
KHARTOUM, March 13 (MENA) - A subcommittee formed by the Nile Council of Ministers (Nile-COM) of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) concluded its activities here on Monday in the presence of Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed ....
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Car bomb blast kills 6 near hotel in Somalia's capital
Date: 2017-03-13 08:44:20 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:15 - ID:6683161
MOGADISHU, March 13 (MENA) - A suicide car bomber detonated near a hotel in Somalia's capital Monday morning, killing at least six people and injuring four others, local media reports quoted police as saying. The bomber detonated himself near the ....
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Somali Journalist critically wounded in car bomb blast
Date: 2017-03-12 22:39:57 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:91 - ID:6680769
MOGADISHU, March 12 (MENA) - A bomb under a car has seriously wounded a local journalist, working for London-based Somali channel, in Mogadishu, Shabelle News reported Sunday. The wounded journalist was identified as Abdihamid Mohamed Karzay, who ....
