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Kenya arrests suspected al Shabaab fighter
Date: 2016-01-05 14:48:30 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:86 - ID:4056229
NAIROBI, Jan 5 (MENA) - Kenyan police arrested a suspected al Shabaab movement fighter in Mombasa on Tuesday and recovered weapons that had been intended for use in aborted New Year's Eve attacks on the coastal city, media reports quoted a senior ....
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New peace talks to be held in Addis Ababa between Sudan gov., opposition
Date: 2016-01-05 14:25:18 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:79 - ID:4055517
KHARTOUM, Jan 5 (MENA) - Member of the Sudanese government to negotiations with Sudan 's Movement (North Sector) Hussein Hamdy said the preparatory meeting between the government and opposition in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa will be ....
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Sudanese FM's Cairo visit part of political consultations - envoy
Date: 2016-01-04 14:26:08 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:57 - ID:4048133
KHARTOUM, Jan 4 (MENA) – Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour's visit of Egypt on Saturday is part of political consultations between the two countries and comes upon an invitation from Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's ....
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Efforts exerted to increase Egypt's presence in Mauritanian market
Date: 2016-01-04 13:21:07 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:49 - ID:4047717
NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 4 (MENA) - A high-level delegation from the Arab Contractors' Company under the company's vice chairman Imam Afifi along with head of the African branches sector Ashraf Abdel Aati headed for Mauritania on a several days' visit to ....
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Mauritanians reject MB calls for extremism
Date: 2016-01-03 21:57:25 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:100 - ID:4044697
NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 3 (MENA) – The Mauritanian society rejected calls of sedition and extremism by the Mauritanian Muslim Brotherhood group after the government closed unlicensed religious schools. Fifty-five Mauritanian organizations and societies ....
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35 years in jail for Zim rhino poacher
Date: 2016-01-02 17:42:44 GMT - Zimbabwe - Africa - SN:78 - ID:4038177
HARARE, Jan 2 (MENA) - Conservationists in Zimbabwe on Friday welcomed reports that a poacher who was part of a gang that killed two rhinos in the south of the country has been sentenced to 35 years in jail, News24 reported. The unusually heavy ....
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Addis Ababa to host technical meeting on Ethiopia dam
Date: 2016-01-02 15:38:18 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:65 - ID:4037397
CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) – The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa will host a two-day technical meeting as of Wednesday on the Ethiopia Renaissance Dam within the framework of the Khartoum agreement between Egypt, Sudana and Ethiopia under which two French ....
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3 Al Shabaab gunmen killed during attack on police station in Mogadishu
Date: 2016-01-02 12:34:40 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:41 - ID:4036385
MOGADISHU, Jan 2 (MENA) - Three gunmen belonging to hardline Al Shabaab movement were killed during their attack on a police station here. In statements, a security source said that the gunmen carried out a fierce attack with weapons on the ....
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3 killed in blast in restaurant in Mogadishu
Date: 2016-01-02 11:22:20 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:29 - ID:4035417
MOGADISHU, Jan 2 (MENA) – At least three people were killed and others injured in a blast targeting a restaurant near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu. No body claimed responsibility for the attack. Somali police said ....
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Hand grenade attack kills two at Ethiopian university - police
Date: 2016-01-01 18:30:37 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:70 - ID:4033773
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 1 (MENA) - A hand grenade attack killed two students and injured six in a university in southern Ethiopia, police said, the second such attack in the country in three weeks, the Daily News reported. An attacker or attackers ....
