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Outgoing AL chief meets successor
Date: 2016-06-29 11:32:25 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:52 - ID:5180437
CAIRO, June 29 (MENA) - Outgoing Arab League Secretary General Nabil el Araby met Wednesday with Ahmed Abul Gheit, the new AL chief who will assume office as of July 1. The meeting took up duties of the AL chief to facilitate joint Arab ....
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S. Sudan appeals to int'l community to work on improving its economic conditions
Date: 2016-06-28 14:06:30 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:58 - ID:5174385
JUBA, June 28 (MENA) - South Sudan's government appealed to the international community to intervene to improve the economic conditions in the country. In statements to the US-run Radio Sawa, Government spokesman Michael Makuei said the ....
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Mauritania president invites Somalia counterpart to attend Arab summit
Date: 2016-06-27 20:11:19 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:79 - ID:5171261
NOUAKCHOTT, June 27 (MENA) – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has invited his Somali counterpart Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to attend the 27th session of the Arab Summit due to kick off on July 25. This came in a message delivered by ....
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Madagascar stadium blast kills two
Date: 2016-06-26 21:52:40 GMT - Madagascar - Africa - SN:110 - ID:5165137
ANTANANARIVO, June 26 (MENA) - A grenade explosion has killed at least two people during Madagascar's national day celebrations in the capital Antananarivo, officials in Madagascar said. About 70 people were wounded in the blast at a stadium, the ....
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Nigerian security forces rescue 4 kidnapped including foreigners
Date: 2016-06-26 21:22:17 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:104 - ID:5164965
ABUJA, June 26 (MENA) - Security forces on Sunday rescued three foreigners and a Nigerian who were among seven construction workers kidnapped in an ambush on a police convoy in southeastern Nigeria that killed a driver, the ABC News cited police as ....
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Shoukry greets new S. Sudanese FM on post
Date: 2016-06-26 17:16:06 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:88 - ID:5164121
CAIRO, June 26 (MENA) - In a phone call Sunday, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry congratulated new South Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor on taking office, Spokesman of Foreign Ministry Ahmed Abu Zeid said. During the call, Shoukry asserted the ....
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Minister among 11 killed in Somalia hotel attack
Date: 2016-06-26 14:37:22 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:60 - ID:5162549
MOGADISHU, June 27 (MENA) - A junior minister was among 11 people killed in an attack by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab militants on a hotel in the Somali capital, the foreign ministry said Sunday. The body of Buri Mohamed Hamza, minister of state ....
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Hosting Arab summit enhances Mauritania's regional, int'l role - ministry
Date: 2016-06-26 09:58:31 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:26 - ID:5160189
NOUAKCHOTT, June 26 (MENA) - Hosting the coming Arab summit cements Mauritania's role at the Arab, African and international arenas, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The Arab summit will take place on July 25 in Nouakchott. Mauritania ....
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New fighting forces civilians to flee homes in S. Sudan - ICRC
Date: 2016-06-25 16:38:04 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:63 - ID:5158209
GENEVA, June 25 (MENA) - Renewed clashes in and around Wau, in the northwest of South Sudan, have forced thousands of civilians to flee in fear, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned Saturday ICRC is seriously concerned by ....
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Huge explosion outside hotel in Somali capital, police say
Date: 2016-06-25 15:22:23 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:59 - ID:5157985
MOGADISHU, June 25 (MENA) - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the gate of a Mogadishu hotel, followed by a second explosion heard inside the hotel as gunmen fought their way inside, Fox News cited police as saying Saturday. ....
