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36 suspected al Shabaab suspects arrested in Kenya
Date: 2016-05-10 14:33:47 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:80 - ID:4881457
NAIROBI, May 10 (MENA) - Thirty six suspected al Shabaab militants have been arrested in Operation Linda Boni which began nine months ago. The suspects were referred to agencies concerned, said head of security operations James ole Serian. He ....
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Senegal, Gambia thank Cairo univ. for exempting African students from residency, food fees
Date: 2016-05-10 13:36:18 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:57 - ID:4880565
CAIRO, May 10 (MENA) – Senegal and Gambia thanked President of Cairo University Gaber Nassar for exempting students from all African states from paying fees of residency and food in the university. The Foreign Ministry informed the Supreme ....
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Health minister leaves Cairo for Addis Ababa
Date: 2016-05-08 22:48:27 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:132 - ID:4869165
CAIRO, May 8 (MENA) - Health Minister Ahmed Emad Eddin Rady left here late on Sunday heading for Addis Ababa to take part in the first meeting of the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention in Africa. The meeting will be held form May 9 until ....
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Mali forces arrest man accused of links to attacks
Date: 2016-05-08 18:30:31 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:112 - ID:4868201
BAMAKO, May 8 (MENA) - Malian authorities said forces have arrested an al-Qaeda-linked extremist who was living in a neighborhood near the country's international airport, the ABC News reported. Commandant Modibo Naman Traore announced Sunday in a ....
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98 Yemeni fishermen return home after being held in Eritria for several months
Date: 2016-05-08 07:25:32 GMT - Yemen - Africa - SN:12 - ID:4862693
SANAA, May 8 (MENA) - As many as 98 Yemeni fishermen arrived to Salif port of Hodeidah, after being held for months in an Eritrean port, the Yemeni Khabar news agency reported. The released fishermen came on a boat from the “Massawa” port in ....
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Understandings reached with rejectionists to Sudanese national dialogue
Date: 2016-05-07 09:37:18 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:22 - ID:4857405
KHARTOUM, May 7 (MENA) – Sudan’s presidential assistant Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed said understandings were reached with political powers reluctant to join the country’s national dialogue. Hamed, also vice president of the ruling National Congress ....
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Kenyan gov't critic killed
Date: 2016-05-07 07:18:31 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:11 - ID:4857069
NAIROBI, May 7 (MENA) - An opposition leader said a businessman who was critical of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's government was shot dead as he drove home, the ABC News reported. Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga suggested the ....
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global(1):Reports of Corrupt Practices in Cross-Border Aid to Syria
Date: 2016-05-07 06:24:17 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:6 - ID:4856929
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is conducting a complex investigation into cross-border aid programs providing humanitarian relief in Syria. These ....
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Nigerian militants attack Chevron Facility in oil-rich Niger Delta Region
Date: 2016-05-06 17:45:26 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:80 - ID:4855805
ABUJA, May 6 (MENA) - Militants have blown an offshore oil facility operated by US oil group Chevron in southern Nigeria, the navy said on Friday, in renewed violence that could hit exports in Africa's largest oil producer. "There was an attack ....
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Irrigation min.: Meeting of tripartite committee on dam bring closer viewpoints
Date: 2016-05-06 09:02:03 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:20 - ID:4852833
CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Mohamed Abdel Aati said that the tripartite committee on the Ethiopian renaissance dam convened on May 2-3 in Addis Ababa to discuss points related to the technical studies on the effects ....
