Africa

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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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • Sudan's president back home from Jakarta

    Date: 2016-03-08 09:16:43 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:13 - ID:4465917

    KHARTOUM, March 8 (MENA) – Sudanese President Omar al Bashir returned home on Tuesday after his participation in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) 5th Extraordinary Summit on Palestine and Al Quds in Jakarta. He was received at Khartoum ....

  • MSF condemns looting of medical center in South Sudan

    Date: 2016-03-06 21:10:55 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:80 - ID:4456517

    CAIRO, March 6 (MENA) - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the looting of its medical center in Pibor, South Sudan, a statement distributed by MSF office in Cairo said. Medical supplies, therapeutic food for malnourished children ....

  • Egyptian medical convoy wraps up visit to S. Sudan

    Date: 2016-03-04 21:36:47 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:83 - ID:4445085

    CAIRO, March 4 (MENA) – An Egyptian medical convoy wrapped up a visit to South Sudan after it provided health services for three weeks in Juba. The convoy - the fourth in two years – grouped five orthopedic physicians and five others for ....

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