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South Africa heat wave claims 11 lives, say officials
Date: 2016-01-10 22:26:04 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:122 - ID:4088565
PRETORIA, Jan 10 (MENA) - South African health officials said 11 people have died of heatstroke after a weeklong heatwave across the country, the ABC News reported. Provincial spokesman Tebogo Lekgethwane said Sunday that eight people died on ....
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Thousands flee S.Sudan war despite political peace efforts
Date: 2016-01-10 19:49:02 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:104 - ID:4087433
NEW YORK, Jan 10 (MENA) - Thousands of South Sudanese have fled fighting and extreme hunger in recent weeks, the United Nations says in a report, as leaders struggle to honour a peace deal on the ground. Almost 10,000 civilians have arrived since ....
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Mali believes Mourabitoun behind Nov. hotel attack
Date: 2016-01-10 06:55:48 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:8 - ID:4082633
BAMAKO, Jan 10 (MENA) - Mali's chief prosecutor said that it has evidence that jihadist group Al Mourabitoun, is behind the November attack on a luxury hotel that killed 20 people, Sky News reported on Sunday. On November 20, at least two armed ....
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Mali gunmen abduct Swiss woman in Timbuktu
Date: 2016-01-08 12:53:35 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:52 - ID:4074101
BAMAKO, Jan 8 (MENA) - A Swiss woman was kidnapped overnight from a house in the northern Mali city of Timbuktu, The Daily Mail quoted a spokesman for the Malian army as saying on Friday. He gave no details of the incident or the woman's ....
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One killed in Al Shabab Mogadishu mortar attack-- police
Date: 2016-01-08 07:15:13 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:12 - ID:4072085
MOGADISHU, Jan 8 (MENA) - One civilian was killed and another seriously wounded on Thursday when mortars fired by Al Shabab insurgents exploded close to the presidential palace in Mogadishu, police said on Friday. Explosions were heard in the ....
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Turkey set to build a military training center in Somalia
Date: 2016-01-06 14:26:35 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:72 - ID:4063549
MOGADISHU, Jan 6 (MENA) - Turkey has started to build a military training base in Somalia as part of its pledge to build up the national army for the Somali government, a senior Turkish diplomat has said. Emel Tekin, the head of the Foreign ....
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Explosion targets Kenyan military convoy in north Somalia
Date: 2016-01-06 12:37:30 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:54 - ID:4062301
MOGADISHU, Jan 6 (MENA) – A huge blast has rocked a Kenyan military convoy near Afmadow town of Lower Jubba region in northern Somalia. The explosion resulted in destroying a military vehicle with no casualties reported. No party has yet ....
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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 ....
