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Indian PM arrives in Tanzania
Date: 2016-07-10 11:21:56 GMT - Tanzania - Africa - SN:23 - ID:5233013
DAR ES SALAAM, July 10 (MENA) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Tanzania on Sunday as part of his four-nation Africa tour aimed at enhancing ties with the continent, particularly in the economic sphere, ABC news reported. Modi was ....
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Al Shabab raid Kenya police station
Date: 2016-07-09 13:58:35 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:37 - ID:5229589
NAIROBI, July 9 (MENA) – Al-Shabab, a Somali-led Al-Qaeda group, attacked a police station in northeastern Kenya, Kenyan police said on Saturday. The attack – launched by about 100 elements – left only one policeman injured, Russia Today ....
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Scores of bodies from South Sudan gunfire -- Juba doctor
Date: 2016-07-09 10:15:17 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:17 - ID:5228017
JUBA, July 9 (MENA) - Soldiers have brought scores of bodies to a hospital in South Sudan's capital after gunfire erupted throughout Juba on Friday evening, abc news reported on Saturday, quoting a doctor at the hospital. The doctor said a total ....
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Six killed in suicide attack at mosque in NE Nigeria
Date: 2016-07-08 12:51:59 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:40 - ID:5225529
ABUJA, July 8 (MENA) - Six people were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a mosque in Damboa, northeast Nigeria, World Bulletin quoted the army as saying. Nigerian Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said one bomber ....
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Libyan presidential council appoints permanent representative to AU Commission
Date: 2016-07-08 08:52:01 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:22 - ID:5224109
TRIPOLI, July 8 (MENA) - The Libyan Presidential Council issued a decision appointing Saleh Hama Mohamed as permanent representative to the African Union Commission. Mohamed is a parliamentarian and a member in the Libyan national dialogue team ....
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Al Shabaab movement kills two men in public
Date: 2016-07-08 08:28:58 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:18 - ID:5223745
MOGADISHU, July 8 (MENA) - The radical Al Shabaab group shot dead two men in central Somalia in public. The killing field was in “Harardhere” in "Mudug" province which is controlled by Al Shabaab terrorist group, a source told Radio ....
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Official: 5 soldiers killed in shooting in South Sudan
Date: 2016-07-08 08:00:18 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:14 - ID:5223853
JUBA, July 8 (MENA) - Five South Sudanese government soldiers were killed in a shootout on Thursday night between opposing army factions in the capital, the ABC News quoted a military official as saying Friday. A convoy of soldiers loyal to ....
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African Union to withdraw troops from Somalia by 2020
Date: 2016-07-07 16:54:59 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:83 - ID:5222597
ADDIS ABABA, July 7 (MENA) - The African Union said Thursday that it plans to withdraw its forces from Somalia by the end of 2020 after years of trying to secure the Horn of Africa country against extremist group al-Shabab, the ABC News reported. ....
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Gambia sacks 27 government officials accused of corruption
Date: 2016-07-06 09:59:53 GMT - The Gambia - Africa - SN:27 - ID:5216757
BANJUL, July 6 (MENA) - Authorities in Gambia have sacked 27 government officials including 10 permanent secretaries on suspicion of having fraudulently acquired official cars and other items, state television said on Tuesday. The officials are ....
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AU denounces suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia
Date: 2016-07-06 09:10:15 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:24 - ID:5216537
ADDIS ABABA, July 6 (MENA) - Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma denounced the suicide attacks in the Saudi Kingdom that took place on Monday. In a statement issued by the commission, Zuma described the attack ....
