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Burkina Faso premier released after being detained by coup leaders
Date: 2015-09-22 09:54:06 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:20 - ID:3398425
OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 22 (MENA) - Burkina Faso coup leaders have released the country's prime minister, Yacouba Isaac Zida, from custody as the army and the elite presidential guard continued surrender talks. The prime minister was detained alongside ....
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Burkina Faso mediators propose November vote after coup
Date: 2015-09-20 22:17:04 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:125 - ID:3390185
OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 20 (MENA) - Mediators in Burkina Faso’s political crisis proposed new and more inclusive elections in November, ِThe Washington Post reported. That could prove to be a serious sticking point after the draft agreement was released ....
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Egypt expresses concern over development in Burkina Faso
Date: 2015-09-20 07:07:56 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:8 - ID:3384297
CAIRO, Sept 20 (MENA) – Egypt is concerned over the latest developments in Burkina Faso, the Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Sunday. The statement said Cairo is looking forward to the success of regional and international efforts ....
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Death toll rises to 193 in fuel tanker explosion in S. Sudan
Date: 2015-09-19 20:17:16 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:105 - ID:3383533
JUBA, Sept 19 (MENA) - The death toll has risen to 193 in South Sudan's fuel tanker explosion and the government has declared three days of mourning, Fox News reported. Patrick Raphael Zamoi, the governor of Western Equatoria state where the ....
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PM: Ethiopia dam should not affect Egypt's water quota or politically manipulated
Date: 2015-09-19 13:13:51 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:55 - ID:3380233
CAIRO, Sept 19 (MENA) - New Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said the Ethiopia dam file is governed by several perspectives, topped by maintaining Egypt's quota of the River Nile water and avoiding political manipulation of the facility. He said the ....
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Egypt condoles with South Sudan for victims of tanker blast
Date: 2015-09-19 07:41:19 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:14 - ID:3377997
CAIRO, Sept 19 (MENA) - Egypt has condoled with the government and people of South Sudan for the death of 180 citizens in an oil tanker explosion. Many other citizens were injured in the blast. Egypt extends condolences to families of the ....
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Burkina Faso military leaders 'free President Kafando'
Date: 2015-09-18 15:12:43 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:69 - ID:3376257
LONDON, Sept 18 (MENA) - Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando has been freed and is in good health, the new military leaders said Friday. However, Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who was also detained when the presidential guard stormed a ....
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Islamists retake town in Somalia after African forces quit
Date: 2015-09-18 09:16:01 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:22 - ID:3373957
MOGADISHU, Sept 18 (MENA) - Islamist militant group al Shabaab has retaken another town in Somalia from African troops, adding to a string of settlements it has seized this month, the group and an official said. Al Shabaab retook the town of ....
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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 ....
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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, ....
