Africa

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  • Arab Contractors carries out projects worth $34m in Mauritania

    Date: 2015-10-07 13:01:49 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:47 - ID:3484629

    NOUAKCHOTT, Oct 7 (MENA) - The Arab Contractors company has started carrying out projects in Mauritania worth 34 million dollars under the supervision of engineer Ashraf Abdel Ati, the head of Africa sector at the company. Engineer Morad Hashem, ....

  • Sudanese presidential aide leaves Cairo back home

    Date: 2015-10-07 09:41:52 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:23 - ID:3482757

    CAIRO, Oct 7 (MENA) – Sudanese presidential aide and deputy chairman of the ruling National Congress Party Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed left here Wednesday back home. Hamed, who arrived in Cairo on Tuesday on top of a high-level delegation, had met with ....

  • ICRC forced to withdraw from S. Sudan county following threats and looting

    Date: 2015-10-05 18:20:48 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:84 - ID:3474597

    GENEVA, Oct 5 (MENA) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been forced to withdraw all its staff from a humanitarian compound in South Sudan's Leer County after it was looted and its aid workers threatened. Dozens of ....

  • Arab Contractors Company to inaugurate first project in Ethiopia soon - official

    Date: 2015-10-05 13:33:25 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:47 - ID:3471969

    CAIRO, Oct 5 (MENA) - Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs Mohamed Edriss said Monday the Arab Contractors Company will inaugurate its first project in Ethiopia soon. In statements, he said the project is part of two road projects in ....

  • Multiple blasts rock restive Nigerian city of Maiduguri

    Date: 2015-10-04 15:00:37 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:61 - ID:3466777

    ABUJA, Oct 4 (MENA) - Blasts were heard today on the outskirts of Maiduguri, a city in northeastern Nigeria that has repeatedly been attacked by the Boko Haram group. Eyewinesses said loud explosions were heard from the areas of Kayamla and ....

  • Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia dam meeting postponed

    Date: 2015-10-04 12:24:44 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:40 - ID:3464985

    SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Oct 4 (MENA) – The date of a tripartite meeting of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the Grand Renaissance Dam, which was scheduled for October 4 and 5, has been delayed to the third week of October, Water Resources and Irrigation ....

  • Nigeria's Abuja hit by two blasts with at least 15 dead

    Date: 2015-10-03 12:10:44 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:37 - ID:3459501

    ABUJA, Oct 3 (MENA) - Multiple bombs detonated in two locations of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, killed at least 15 people, the ABC News cited National Emergency Management Agency as saying on Saturday. The explosions Friday night were in Nyanya ....

  • There is ongoing coordination with Egypt on regional, int'l files - Sudanese minister

    Date: 2015-10-03 11:50:08 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:36 - ID:3459457

    KHARTOUM, Oct 3 (MENA) - Sudanese Environment Minister Hassan Abdel Qader Hilal underlined that coordination is maintained between Egypt and his country concerning various issues as well as regional and international files. It was agreed to unify ....

  • Sudan FM: Khartoum, Washington agreed on road map to boost ties

    Date: 2015-10-03 11:13:27 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:30 - ID:3458717

    KHARTOUM, Oct 3 (MENA) - Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said Saturday he agreed with US Secretary of State John Kerry on outlining a road map to beef up the two countries' relations in the coming phase. In statements to the Sudanese ....

  • Suicide bombers kill 10 in northeastern Nigeria

    Date: 2015-10-02 14:54:50 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:53 - ID:3456001

    ABUJA, Oct 2 (MENA) - Nigeria's army said suicide bombers killed at least 10 people in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state which is among the hardest hit by an uprising by extremists, Fox News TV channel reported Friday. No group has claimed ....

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