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Azhar aid convoy starts activities in Nigeria
Date: 2016-06-01 13:01:28 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:53 - ID:5022725
ABUJA, June 1 (MENA) - Al Azhar aid convoy started on Wednesday its activities in the Nigerian capital in the presence of Egyptian Ambassador in Abuja Ashraf Salama. Azhar Grand Imam ordered earlier dispatching an aid convoy to deliver food and ....
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Global(3):Dunkin' Donuts Celebrates Global Donut Day on Friday, June 3rd by Offering Guests a Free Donut with any Beverage Purchase
Date: 2016-05-31 06:40:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:3 - ID:5012745
Special offer available at participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants across the Middle East CANTON, Massachusetts, May 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Dunkin' Donuts, one of the world's leading baked goods and coffee chains, today announced a delicious ....
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2 men sentenced to life terms for bombing Somali airliner
Date: 2016-05-30 17:07:54 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:77 - ID:5010641
MOGADISHU, May 30 (MENA) - A military court in the Somali capital on Monday gave a life sentence to two men convicted of masterminding the bombing in February of an airliner which made an emergency landing with a gaping hole in the fuselage, said ....
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Chad's ex-ruler Hissene Habre convicted of crimes against humanity
Date: 2016-05-30 14:56:23 GMT - Senegal - Africa - SN:58 - ID:5009713
DAKAR, May 30 (MENA) - Chad's ex-ruler Hissene Habre has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison at a landmark trial in Senegal, said the BBC. The judge convicted him of rape, sexual slavery and ordering killings ....
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Mauritanian president will not run for another presidential term
Date: 2016-05-30 06:56:37 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:11 - ID:5005633
NOUACHOTT, May 30 (MENA) - Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz said he will not run for another presidential term, noting that opposition was raising the issue without any occasion. An interviewed broadcast by the Spanish radio late ....
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Global (1): Asia Plantation Capital Welcomes Interns From Local Universities to its Johor Distillery
Date: 2016-05-30 06:46:43 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:9 - ID:5005761
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia Plantation Capital will be providing industrial training for undergraduate students from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) starting in ....
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Niger military kills 10 Boko Haram extremists
Date: 2016-05-28 20:36:56 GMT - Niger - Africa - SN:87 - ID:4998609
NIAMEY, May 28 (MENA) - Niger's army has killed at least 10 Boko Haram militants after they tried to attack a military post in the country's southeast near its border with Nigeria, Fox News reported. Col. Moustapha Michel Ledru said Saturday that ....
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DR Congo to build world's largest dam -- report
Date: 2016-05-28 16:22:19 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:66 - ID:4997069
LONDON, May 28 (MENA) - The largest dam in the world is set to begin construction within months in the Democratic Republic of Congo but it could be built without any environmental or social impact surveys, a report published by The Guardian said. ....
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Port-Sudan to host meetings of higher Sudanese-Ethiopian economic committee
Date: 2016-05-28 14:47:03 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:49 - ID:4995733
KHARTOUM, May 25 (MENA) - The capital of the Red Sea State, Port-Sudan, will host on May 31 - June 1 the meetings of the joint higher Sudanese-Ethiopian economic committee, the Sudan News agency reported. The meetings will be co-chaired by the ....
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Violence erupts in Guinea Bissau as new PM appointed
Date: 2016-05-27 15:27:07 GMT - Guinea-Bissau - Africa - SN:64 - ID:4992033
BISSAU, May 27 (MENA) – Supporters of the ruling party in Guinea-Bissau attacked the presidential palace Friday in protest at appointing a new prime minister for the country. The president of Guinea-Bissau had named Baciro Dja as the west African ....
