Africa
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Sudanese national dialogue settles 75% of controversial issues - Ghandour
Date: 2015-12-17 11:16:45 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:45 - ID:3945661
KHARTOUM, Dec 17 (MENA) – Participants in the Sudanese national dialogue have reached compromises to almost 75 percent of controversial issues, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said. In statements to MENA on Thursday, he said the ....
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Irrigation minister opens water projects in Uganda
Date: 2015-12-16 17:02:19 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:110 - ID:3941345
KAMPALA, Dec 16 (MENA) - Egypt's Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi attended Wednesday several water projects, which are a grant from the Egyptian government to the Ugandan nation. The projects include one of the groundwater ....
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Bomb attack on army convoy wounds 6 Somali soldiers
Date: 2015-12-16 16:14:57 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:100 - ID:3941245
MOGADISHU, Dec 16 (MENA) - A powerful roadside bomb explosion ripped through a military vehicle near Afgoye district in Lower Shabelle region, wounding at least six Somali soldiers, witness said on Wednesday. An eyewitness who requested anonymous, ....
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Sudanese FM praises "good results" in Khartoum meeting on Ethiopian dam
Date: 2015-12-16 14:10:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:81 - ID:3940105
KHARTOUM, Dec 16 (MENA) - Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour appreciated the progress made during the six-way meeting on the Ethiopian renaissance dam in Khartoum a few days ago. In statements to MENA on Wednesday, the Sudanese minister ....
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Environment min. meets African journalists
Date: 2015-12-16 13:23:48 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:70 - ID:3939853
CAIRO, Dec 16 (MENA) - Environment Minister Khalid Fahmy met on Wednesday with a delegation of African journalists. Attending the meeting were 25 African journalists and 10 Egyptian reporters. The meeting discussed a number of issues, atop of ....
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Qabil: Egyptian-Senegalese coordination to compensate companies suffered from fair fire in Senegale
Date: 2015-12-16 13:22:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:69 - ID:3939213
CAIRO, Dec 16 (MENA) - There is coordination between Egypt and Senegal over means to compensate the companies that suffered losses from the fire that broke out in the Egyptian pavilion at the Senegalese fair grounds on Monday, said Minister of Trade ....
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Mauritania hails Egyptian support in higher education field
Date: 2015-12-16 12:23:38 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:52 - ID:3939057
NOUAKCHOTT, Dec 16 (MENA) - The Egyptian Cultural Adviser here Ashraf el Azazy held discussions on Wednesday with the general director of higher education in the Mauritanian Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry. The two sides ....
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Nigeria military killed hundreds of Shias, activists say
Date: 2015-12-15 15:06:38 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:71 - ID:3933237
ABUJA, Dec 15 (MENA) - Activists on Tuesday accused Nigeria's military of killing hundreds upon hundreds, perhaps as many as 1,000, Shia Muslims in just three days in what the country's top human rights protector is calling "a massacre," CBC News ....
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Sudanese min. urges Egypt businessmen to invest in Sudan
Date: 2015-12-15 13:11:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:45 - ID:3931481
CAIRO, Dec 15 (MENA) – Sudanese Investment Minister Mudathir Abdel Ghani called on Egyptian businessmen to invest in various domains in Sudan, especially in the sectors of agriculture, mining and livestock. He made the remarks during the ....
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Iran summons Nigerian diplomat over killing of Shiites
Date: 2015-12-14 22:04:25 GMT - Iran - Africa - SN:124 - ID:3928193
TEHRAN, Dec 14 (MENA) - Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Nigerian Charge d'Affaires to protest the killing of Shiite Muslims in northern Nigeria, ABC news reported. Iran's foreign minister said a senior Foreign Ministry official condemned ....