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Sudanese security cancels soccer matches for security reasons
Date: 2015-11-20 09:51:18 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:22 - ID:3767362
KHARTOUM, Nov 20 (MENA) - Sudanese security authorities decided to cancel soccer matches to be held Friday for security reasons. The matches due between al Hilal and al Merrikh teams and al Amal and Nile Shendy teams were canceled. (MENA) M H ....
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Guinea president sacks minister, officials over violence
Date: 2015-11-20 07:11:15 GMT - Guinea - Africa - SN:11 - ID:3766666
CONAKRY, Nov 20 (MENA) - Guinean President Alpha Conde fired his interior minister and two other government officials for "gross misconduct", for their handling of deadly violence that broke out at a religious gathering last weekend. Interior ....
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Intensive talks to hold 6th meeting on Renaissance dam in Khartoum
Date: 2015-11-19 13:37:19 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:64 - ID:3762946
CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) - Intensive consultations are being held between the technical and diplomatic bodies in the Eastern Nile countries of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to set a date for the sixth meeting of the water and foreign ministers in the three ....
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Relationship between Egypt, Sudan strong - officials
Date: 2015-11-19 13:29:54 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:63 - ID:3763010
KHARTOUM, Nov 19 (MENA) – The strategic relationship between the Egyptian and Sudanese peoples over history is stronger than bids trying to tear them apart, the two countries had said. The remarks were given during a meeting here between Sudanese ....
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Sudan conducts military drills along coasts of Red Sea
Date: 2015-11-18 20:52:01 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:144 - ID:3759449
KHARTOUM, Nov 18 (MENA) – The Sudanese army has conducted military drills along the Red Sea coast. Units of the army's navy air forces and ground forces have taken part in the annual drill. The military maneuvers were launched to boost the ....
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Nigeria president accuses ex-officers of stealing billions in arms deals
Date: 2015-11-18 14:48:39 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:96 - ID:3757194
ABUJA, Nov 17 (MENA) - Nigeria's leader has ordered the arrest of the former president's national security adviser for allegedly stealing billions of dollars meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram Islamic extremists rampaging across northeast ....
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Dozens killed in blast at market in Nigerian city of Yola
Date: 2015-11-18 14:47:24 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:95 - ID:3757154
ABUJA, Nov 18 (MENA) - A blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday evening, killing 32 people and wounding 80 others, both the Red Cross and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. The explosion occurred ....
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Five Tanzanian miners freed after 41 days trapped underground, says ministry
Date: 2015-11-17 11:34:42 GMT - Tanzania - Africa - SN:58 - ID:3748273
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 17 (MENA) - Five Tanzanian gold miners have been rescued after spending 41 days trapped deep underground eating cockroaches and frogs to survive, media reports quoted the mining ministry and survivors as saying. The miners were ....
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Boko Haram destroyed 1,000 schools last year -- envoy
Date: 2015-11-16 18:48:06 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:98 - ID:3744509
NEW YORK, Nov 16 (MENA) - Boko Haram Islamists have destroyed an estimated 1,100 schools this year in their stronghold region surrounding Lake Chad, United Nations envoy to the region Toby Lanzer said on Monday. Lanzer, who became the UN envoy ....
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Sisi meets Kenyan lawmakers
Date: 2015-11-15 16:57:32 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:86 - ID:3736685
CAIRO, Nov 15 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi underlined the importance of using the Nile water on the basis of mutual benefit that does not harm any side. During a meeting with a delegation of the Kenyan National Assembly’s (lower house) ....
