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16,000 children recruited by armed groups in S. Sudan since 2013 - UNICEF
Date: 2016-08-19 12:17:45 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:28 - ID:5454169
GENEVA, Aug 19 (MENA) - More than 650 children have been recruited into armed groups in South Sudan since the beginning of this year, UNICEF said in a press release Friday. Fearful that renewed conflict could put tens of thousands of children at ....
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Rwanda police shoot dead terror suspect in Kigali
Date: 2016-08-18 11:43:06 GMT - Rwanda - Africa - SN:37 - ID:5448621
KIGALI, Aug 18 (MENA) - A terror suspect was shot dead in Rwanda after a three-hour shoot-out in an affluent suburb of the capital, Kigali, police say. The man barricaded himself in the house and injured one police officer during the late-night ....
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Egypt, Kenya water ministers meet
Date: 2016-08-18 11:31:01 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:34 - ID:5447929
CAIRO, Aug 18 (MENA) - Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Aati received his Kenyan counterpart Eugene Wamalwa and his accompanying delegation on Thursday for talks on means of promoting water cooperation. In the period between ....
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S.Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar flees country
Date: 2016-08-18 09:38:11 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:17 - ID:5446877
JUBA, Aug 18 (MENA) - South Sudan's opposition leader Riek Machar has left the country for a neighbouring state, opposition officials said on Thursday, several weeks after he withdrew from the capital Juba during fierce fighting with government ....
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Arab anti-terror forum kicks off in Khartoum
Date: 2016-08-18 08:46:29 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:13 - ID:5446689
KHARTOUM, Aug 18 (MENA) – The Arab anti-terrorism forum kicked off on Thursday in the Sudanese Capital Khartoum under the rubric of Arab media’s role in combating terrorism. The opening session of the two-day forum, organized by Sudanese ....
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Egyptian embassy in Togo solves problem of fraud victim
Date: 2016-08-17 14:36:53 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:42 - ID:5443473
Cairo, Aug 17 (MENA) - The Egyptian embassy in Togo has succeeded in solving the problem of an Egyptian citizen who has been subjected to online fraud by a gang comprising Nigerians and Togolese people. The Egyptian citizen was deceived by ....
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Nigeria: 23 prison officers dismissed after jailbreaks
Date: 2016-08-16 12:54:33 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:51 - ID:5437513
ABUJA, Aug 16 (MENA) - The board of Nigeria's Prisons Service is dismissing 23 officers from two prisons for allegedly colluding in jailbreaks, ABC News reported Tuesday. Prisons Service spokesman Francis Enobore says the board also is suspending ....
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WFP to distribute food to thousands in Libya
Date: 2016-08-15 16:35:36 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:68 - ID:5433141
TRIPOLI, Aug 15 (MENA) - The World Food Program (WFP) announced that it will distribute foodstuffs to 120,000 people across Libya within this month. However, the WFP, in its Tweet, didn't mention the areas where the food will be distributed. ....
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Egypt, Uganda discuss energy cooperation
Date: 2016-08-15 13:07:54 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:38 - ID:5430717
CAIRO, Aug 15 (MENA) – Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) Chairman Abdel Aziz Seif received visiting Ugandan Energy Minister Irene Muloni Monday. The meeting took up a number of files of mutual interest, especially renewable solar and ....
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100 trucks cross Salloum terminal to Libya
Date: 2016-08-15 12:25:40 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:35 - ID:5431305
MARSA MATROUH, Egypt, Aug 15 (MENA) - Matrouh security director Hisham Lotfi on Monday said procedures had been finalized for the departure of 100 trucks to Libya during the past 24 hours. He also said 151 empty trucks came back from Libya to ....
