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Rights expert urges Nigeria to halt evictions
Date: 2015-11-23 11:16:24 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:39 - ID:3787073
GENEVA, Nov 23 (MENA) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Leilani Farha, has urged Nigeria to immediately end the ongoing trend of evictions. The human rights expert raised concerns with the government about ....
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Sudan says Egypt requested postponement of tripartite meeting on Ethiopian dam
Date: 2015-11-23 05:28:37 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:4 - ID:3784769
KHARTOUM, Nov 23 (MENA) - Sudanese minister of Water Resources and Electricity Moatez Moussa has said that the tripartite meeting with his counterparts in Egypt and Ethiopia on the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) which was scheduled for late November ....
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Mugabe to rule Zimbabwe from 'special' wheelchair, says wife
Date: 2015-11-22 21:50:17 GMT - Zimbabwe - Africa - SN:131 - ID:3784417
HARARE, Nov 22 (MENA) - Zimbabwe's first lady says she plans to get a "special" wheelchair for her 91-year-old husband so that he can continue to rule, The Guardian reported Sunday. Speaking at a political rally, Grace Mugabe told supporters that ....
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Guinea to mourn victims of attack on luxury hotel in Mali
Date: 2015-11-22 20:26:21 GMT - Guinea - Africa - SN:123 - ID:3784009
CONAKRY, Nov 22 (MENA) - Guinea President Alpha Conde said he will announce a three-day mourning period for victims of Friday's attack on a luxury hotel in neighboring Mali's capital that killed 19 people, Fox News reported on Sunday. Speaking at ....
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10th session of Renaissance Dam meetings to be held Sunday in Khartoum
Date: 2015-11-21 15:48:47 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:77 - ID:3775094
CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) - The Water Resources and Irrigation Ministry announced that it was agreed to hold the tenth session of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on Sunday and Monday. There are coordination ....
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Jordanian king condemns Mali hotel attack
Date: 2015-11-21 11:08:04 GMT - Jordan - Africa - SN:49 - ID:3773490
AMMAN, Nov 21 (MENA) – Jordanian King Abdullah II condemned Saturday the terrorist attack that targeted a hotel in Bamako in Mali on Friday claiming the lives of many innocent people, according to a statement of the Jordanian royal diwan. In a ....
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Moscow confirms Russians killed in Mali hostage crisis
Date: 2015-11-21 10:25:32 GMT - Russia - Africa - SN:39 - ID:3773041
MOSCOW, Nov 21 (MENA) - The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday that Russians were among the victims of Friday's hostage crisis at a hotel in the Malian capital city of Bamako, the Sputnik news agency cited the ministry's spokeswoman as ....
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Mali atrocity proves terrorism 'knows no borders' - Putin
Date: 2015-11-21 10:21:10 GMT - Russia - Africa - SN:37 - ID:3773081
MOSCOW, Nov 21 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the deadly hostage crisis in Mali’s capital Bamako proved that terrorism did not care about national borders, in a message to the nation’s leader, according to Sputnik News ....
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Mali announces state of emergency in wake of hotel attack
Date: 2015-11-21 06:56:48 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:7 - ID:3771838
NOUAKCHOTT, Nov 21 (MENA) - Mali's government has declared a 10-day nationwide state of emergency following an armed attack on a hotel in the capital Bamako that left least 27 people dead. People of 14 different nationalities were held hostage ....
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Jordan condemns Bamako terrorist attack
Date: 2015-11-20 22:25:30 GMT - Jordan - Africa - SN:110 - ID:3771470
AMMAN, Nov 20 (MENA) - Jordan on Friday condemned a terrorist attack that was launched by gunmen on Radisson Blu hotel in the Mali's capital of Bamako. Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani deplored the terror act, expressing support ....
