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Nigeria asks Boko Haram to pick NGO intermediary to free Chibok girls
Date: 2016-08-28 16:03:09 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:67 - ID:5505149
NAIROBI, Aug 28 (MENA) - Nigeria would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organisation as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the northeastern village of Chibok in 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari was ....
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Mahlab meets with Sudanese Vice President in Nairobi
Date: 2016-08-27 22:35:12 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:86 - ID:5500849
KHARTOUM, Aug 27 (MENA) - Presidential Aide Ibrahim Mahlab on Saturday met with Sudanese Vice President Bakri Hassan Saleh in Nairobi. The meeting was held on the sidelines of Tokyo International Conference on African Development, which kicked ....
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Zimbabwe police arrest 67 over anti-government protest
Date: 2016-08-27 20:06:37 GMT - Zimbabwe - Africa - SN:75 - ID:5500333
HARARE, Aug 27 (MENA) - Zimbabwe police said they arrested 67 people following a violent protest that rocked the capital, Harare, ABC News reported on Saturday. The police recovered some property looted during the protests, police spokesman Paul ....
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No 'Arab Spring' in Zimbabwe -- Mugabe warns protesters
Date: 2016-08-27 07:21:03 GMT - Zimbabwe - Africa - SN:11 - ID:5496977
HARARE, Aug 27 (MENA) - President Robert Mugabe has warned there will be no ‘Arab Spring’ in Zimbabwe after protests against his decades-long rule descended into violence on Friday, Euronews reported on Saturday. A so-called ‘mega demonstration’ ....
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Sudan to take part in Tokyo International Conference on African Development
Date: 2016-08-26 16:01:18 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:61 - ID:5495325
Khartoum, Aug 26 (MENA) – A Sudanese delegation left Khartoum for Nairobi, Kenya, Friday to take part in the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). Led by Sudan’s First Vice President Bakri Hassan, the delegation includes ....
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Zimbabwe anti-Mugabe protest: Police fire tear gas
Date: 2016-08-26 11:09:22 GMT - Zimbabwe - Africa - SN:30 - ID:5493489
HARARE, Aug 26 (MENA) - Police in Zimbabwe have fired tear gas and water cannon at opposition supporters who had gathered for a protest march in the capital, Harare, the BBC reported on Friday. They have also beaten up people wearing red ....
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10 killed in militants attack on restaurant, beach in Mogadishu
Date: 2016-08-26 08:22:35 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:18 - ID:5492797
MOGADISHU, Aug 26 (MENA) - Ten people were killed in a car bomb and gun attack on a seaside restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Police said a car bomb exploded outside the Banadir Beach Club in the Lido area and gunmen then stormed the ....
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Half million Nigerian children may die, warns UNICEF
Date: 2016-08-25 12:06:17 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:41 - ID:5488917
GENEVA, AUG 25 (MENA) - The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has once again warned that half a million children estimated to be at risk, 49,000 in the north-eastern Borno state alone may be left to die if they do not receive timely ....
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Without aid, 49,000 children will die this year in northeast Nigeria - UN
Date: 2016-08-25 11:05:43 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:28 - ID:5487937
NEW YORK, Aug 25 (MENA) - Nearly half a million children around Lake Chad face "severe acute malnutrition" due to drought and a seven-year insurgency by militant group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, UNICEF said on Thursday. Of the 475,000 ....
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Floods in Sudan's Gezira leave 62 people dead, injured
Date: 2016-08-24 16:03:09 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:82 - ID:5484241
KHARTOUM, Aug 24 (MENA) - At least 26 people died and 36 others injured when the Sudanese state of Gezira was hit by heavy rains and floods, the state's government announced on Wednesday. Some 4,947 houses have collapsed as a result of the ....
