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Lebanese embassy in Ivory Coast urges nationals to stay home
Date: 2016-03-13 17:20:29 GMT - Lebanon - Africa - SN:90 - ID:4502797
BEIRUT, March 13 (MENA) – The Lebanese Embassy in Ivory Coast on Sunday called on its nationals to stay home after the killing and injuring of several foreigners, including Lebanese persons in a terrorist attack carried out by gunmen at a hotel in ....
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4 million Sudanese citizens facing crisis food insecurity
Date: 2016-03-13 11:51:47 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:40 - ID:4499621
KHARTOUM, March 13 (MENA) - More than four million Sudanese citizens will face crisis food insecurity conditions or worse in the coming months, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA said ....
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Mauritanian university professors urge boosting cultural contact with Egypt
Date: 2016-03-12 15:52:25 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:49 - ID:4494693
NOUAKCHOTT, March 12 (MENA) – Professors of the Mauritanian universities called for boosting the Mauritanian-Egyptian cultural contact. Mauritanian university professor Ahmed Habiballah reiterated, during discussions organized by Egypt center for ....
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South Sudan: UN announces independent high-level probe into Malakal events
Date: 2016-03-12 10:19:31 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:27 - ID:4493161
NEW YORK, March 12 (MENA) - The United Nations will convene an independent high-level board of inquiry to conduct an in-depth investigation into how the UN responded last month to deadly violence in the town of Malakal, in northern South Sudan, UN ....
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Angola's Jose Eduardo dos Santos 'to step down in 2018'
Date: 2016-03-11 13:43:42 GMT - Angola - Africa - SN:52 - ID:4489129
LUANDA, March 11 (MENA) - Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has announced he will step down in 2018, having ruled since 1979, The BBC reported on Friday "I took the decision to leave and end my political life in 2018," he told a congress ....
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APRM chief due in Khartoum Wednesday to push for negotiations with armed groups
Date: 2016-03-10 10:41:07 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:33 - ID:4481325
KHARTOUM, March 10 (MENA) - President of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Thabo Mbeki is due to arrive here on Wednesday to discuss with the Sudanese government his call for holding a strategic consultative meeting in Addis Ababa with the ....
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US special forces kill 10 Shabab extremists
Date: 2016-03-10 08:21:49 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:17 - ID:4480605
WASHINGTON, March 10 (MENA) - US special forces hunting for a high-profile target killed more than 10 Islamic extremists during a nighttime firefight near an Al-Shabab-controlled town in Somalia, The Daily Mail reported on Thursday. A Somali ....
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20 Al Shabab militants killed in foreign raids in southern Somalia
Date: 2016-03-09 16:07:28 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:77 - ID:4477509
MOGADISHU, March 9 (MENA) – At least 20 Al Shabab militants were killed in raids launched by foreign forces on its strongholds in Awdhegle city in western Somalia, local sources said on Wednesday. A senior commander of Al Shabab movement was shot ....
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Unknown airstrikes kill 11 Al Shabaab militants in southern Somalia
Date: 2016-03-09 12:54:24 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:46 - ID:4475329
MOGADISHU, March 9 (MENA) – Eleven militants of the Somalian Al Shabab Movement were killed in air strikes staged by unknown Apache helicopters in Lower Shebelle region in southern Somalia. Reports indicate that foreign forces backed by Apache ....
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Sudanese environment min leaves Cairo back home
Date: 2016-03-08 14:22:38 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:68 - ID:4469281
CAIRO, March 8 (MENA) – Sudanese Environment Minister Hassan Abdel Qader Hilal left Cairo Tuesday heading for Khartoum winding up a week-long visit to Egypt. During the visit, Hilal attended the 15th conference for African Environment ....
