Africa

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  • Africa's anti-human trafficking conference closed in Sharm

    Date: 2015-09-17 13:38:29 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:52 - ID:3369529

    CAIRO, Sept 17 (MENA) – The second regional conference of the African Union on means to combat human trafficking rounded up in Sharm El Sheikh. African countries voiced care to combat trafficking. Egypt is financing a program to help the ....

  • 4 soldiers killed in Somalia in explosion inside military base

    Date: 2015-09-17 11:39:44 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:40 - ID:3368969

    MOGADISHU, Sept 17 (MENA) – At least four Somali soldiers were killed and 10 others were injured in an explosion inside a military base in Kismayo town, southern Somalia military officials said on Thursday. "We have been busy paying soldiers, ....

  • General to head transitional council after Burkina coup - statement

    Date: 2015-09-17 10:48:41 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:37 - ID:3368401

    OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 17 (MENA) - Leaders of a coup in Burkina Faso have named Gilbert Diendere, a general in the elite presidential guard, to head a transitional council, the soldiers said in a statement broadcast on state-run television. The ....

  • France condemns coup in Burkina Faso

    Date: 2015-09-17 10:09:59 GMT - France - Africa - SN:32 - ID:3367941

    PARIS, Sept 17 (MENA) – France condemned a military coup in Burkina Faso and called for the immediate release of all those arrested and the continuation of the electoral process, the BBC reported on Thursday. Burkina Faso's military said it had ....

  • Shooting heared in Burkina Faso as officers dissolve government

    Date: 2015-09-17 09:49:58 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:31 - ID:3367769

    OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 17 (MENA) - Presidential guard officers in Burkina Faso have announced the dissolution of the transitional government, according to the BBC. A new "national democratic council" had taken control to end the "deviant regime", ....

  • Military in Burkina Faso confirms coup, dissolves government

    Date: 2015-09-17 09:39:18 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:30 - ID:3367773

    OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 17 (MENA) – Burkina Faso's military took to the airwaves Thursday while gunfire rang out in the streets to declare it now controls the West African country, confirming that a coup has taken place just weeks before elections, ABC ....

  • US condemns detention of Burkina Faso president by his presidential guard

    Date: 2015-09-17 06:59:48 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:4 - ID:3366737

    WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (MENA) – The United States said it is deeply concerned about the unfolding events in Burkina Faso, US State Department Spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday. In a press release, he said "We call for the immediate release of ....

  • Nigeria in talks with Boko Haram over kidnapped schoolgirls

    Date: 2015-09-16 16:42:36 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:96 - ID:3365089

    ABUJA, Sep 16 (MENA) - The Nigerian government is talking to the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram to try to get the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, the president was quoted by Fox News as saying. The government is talking to ....

  • Sudanese defense min. appoints new army spokesman

    Date: 2015-09-15 12:23:44 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:54 - ID:3355757

    KHARTOUM, Sept 15 (MENA) – Newly-appointed Sudanese Defense Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibin Auf issued a decision on Tuesday to name Brigadier Ahmed Khalifa al Shami as new Spokesman for the Sudanese Armed Forces. Shami was selected for holding ....

  • Egypt does not oppose right of any Nile Basin country to Nile water

    Date: 2015-09-15 10:34:29 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:38 - ID:3354189

    KHARTOUM, Sept 15 (MENA) - Egypt on Tuesday underlined its stance that does not oppose the right of any Nile Basin country to the Nile water, provided that this will not come at the expense of other Nile Basin member states. Head of the Nile ....

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