Africa

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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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • Committee urges keeping presidential system in Sudan

    Date: 2016-01-01 10:47:41 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:22 - ID:4031145

    KHARTOUM, Jan 1 (MENA) - The committee of governance issues affiliated to the National Dialogue Conference in Khartoum called on Friday for keeping the presidential system in Sudan and authorizing the Sudanese president to appoint a prime ....

  • Sudanese FM receives message from Russian counterpart

    Date: 2015-12-31 11:27:27 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:39 - ID:4026269

    KHARTOUM, Dec 31 (MENA) - Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour received a message from his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the occasion of the passage of 60 years since the beginning of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The ....

  • 13 illegal African migrants deported from Libya

    Date: 2015-12-30 13:06:43 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:58 - ID:4021029

    TRIPOLI, Dec 30 (MENA) – As many as 13 illegal Chadian migrants were deported from the city of Sabha across the Libyan-Chadian borders, head of the illegal immigration department in Benghazi city Nasser Al Subaihi said on Wednesday. They were sent ....

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