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Hostages freed after Burkina Faso hotel attack
Date: 2016-01-16 07:24:59 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:12 - ID:4122809
OUAGADOUGOU, Jan 16 (MENA) - More than 60 hostages have been freed after security forces launched an assault on a hotel in Burkina Faso which was attacked by suspected Islamist militants, the Sky News reported. At least 20 people are reported to ....
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Al Shabab seizes African Union base in Somalia
Date: 2016-01-15 12:54:05 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:54 - ID:4119873
NAIROBI, Jan 15 (MENA) - Al Shabab militants have overrun an African Union military base outside the southern Somali town of el Ade, the BBC reported on Friday. The group says it has taken "complete control" of the AU camp and killed more than 60 ....
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Irrigation minister says natural flow of Blue Nile provides Egypt with 50bn cubic meters annually
Date: 2016-01-15 11:54:47 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:43 - ID:4118785
CAIRO, Jan 15 (MENA) – Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Hosam Moghazi said that Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia reached alternative understandings regarding water shares that are not recognized by Ethiopia. In press statements, Moghazi said that ....
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Dozens of Kenyan soldiers killed in attack on AU base in Somalia
Date: 2016-01-15 10:55:52 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:25 - ID:4118781
MOGADISHU, Jan 15 (MENA) - A Somali officer said that at least 50 Kenyan soldiers were killed in an attack on an African Union base in southern Somalia, the Russia Today reported on Friday. The militants stormed the base by detonating a car bomb, ....
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Al-Shabab militants storm AU military base in Somalia
Date: 2016-01-15 10:17:26 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:22 - ID:4118665
MOGADISHU, Jan 15 (MENA) - Al-Shabab militants have stormed an African Union military base in southern Somalia, Sky news reported Friday. The militants detonated a car bomb at the gate of the base, located about 550 km west of Mogadishu, said a ....
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Spokesman says Zimbabwean Leader Robert Mugabe is well
Date: 2016-01-14 12:57:55 GMT - Zimbabwe - Africa - SN:74 - ID:4113329
HARARE, Jan 14 (MENA) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is well and an online rumor that the 91-year-old leader is seriously ill is false, a state-run newspaper in Zimbabwe reported Thursday, citing a government official, according to ABC ....
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Liberia declared Ebola-free, ending West African outbreak
Date: 2016-01-14 10:26:26 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:45 - ID:4112357
GENEVA, Jan 14 (MENA) - Liberia has been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), effectively putting an end to the world's worst outbreak of the disease, according to the BBC. The "end of active transmission" was declared, ....
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Female suicide bombers kill at least 10 in Cameroon mosque attack
Date: 2016-01-13 12:18:40 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:65 - ID:4105869
YAOUNDE, Jan 13 (MENA) - Two female suicide bombers have attacked a mosque in a town near Cameroon’s border with Nigeria, killing at least 10 people and wounding about a dozen others, The Guardian reported Wednesday quoting the governor of the ....
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ITU to organize regional economic, financial forum of telecommunications/ICTs for Africa
Date: 2016-01-13 11:55:42 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:58 - ID:4105005
CAIRO, Jan 13 (MENA) - The Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will organize the Regional Economic and Financial Forum of Telecommunications/ICTs for Africa, in collaboration with the ....
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AU summit to take place Jan 21 in Addis Ababa
Date: 2016-01-13 11:15:49 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:42 - ID:4104845
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 13 (MENA) - The 26th African Union Summit will take place in Addis Ababa on from January 21 to 31. Held under the theme: “2016: African Year of Human Rights with a particular focus on the Rights of Women”, the Summit will bring ....
