Africa

  • Service : English General
  • Category : Africa
  • At least 27 bodies at Mali hostage hotel

    Date: 2015-11-20 17:25:29 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:85 - ID:3770469

    BAMAKO, Nov 20 (MENA) - At least 27 people are feared dead after extremists with guns and grenades stormed a luxury hotel in Mali, Sky News reported. UN peacekeepers said they saw at least 27 bodies in the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital ....

  • French special forces reach Mali hostage hotel: defence ministry

    Date: 2015-11-20 16:31:35 GMT - France - Africa - SN:77 - ID:3770193

    PARIS, Nov 20 (MENA) - French special forces have deployed at the luxury hotel in the Malian capital Bamako to assist in ending a mass hostage-taking, The Guardian cited the French defense ministry as saying Friday. "In response to the request ....

  • Mali hotel attack: US military personnel assisting with rescue of hostages

    Date: 2015-11-20 15:26:44 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:70 - ID:3769825

    WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (MENA) - US military personnel are assisting with the rescue of more than 150 hostages at a hotel in the former French colony of Mali, a spokesman for US Africa Command told NBC News Friday. "US forces have helped move ....

  • Malian special forces storm hotel to free hostages

    Date: 2015-11-20 14:50:32 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:65 - ID:3769525

    BMACO, Nov 20 (MENA) - Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, to end a siege by gunmen, the BBC reported Friday. As many as 170 persons were captured.The gunmen stormed the US-owned hotel, which is ....

  • Militants seizes 170 hostages in Bamako

    Date: 2015-11-20 10:32:39 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:26 - ID:3767826

    BAMAKO, Nov 20 (MENA) - Gunmen have launched an attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of Mali's capital, Bamako, the BBC reported on Friday. The hotel's owners said that two people had locked in 140 guests and 30 employees. Police have ....

  • Sudanese security cancels soccer matches for security reasons

    Date: 2015-11-20 09:51:18 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:22 - ID:3767362

    KHARTOUM, Nov 20 (MENA) - Sudanese security authorities decided to cancel soccer matches to be held Friday for security reasons. The matches due between al Hilal and al Merrikh teams and al Amal and Nile Shendy teams were canceled. (MENA) M H ....

  • Guinea president sacks minister, officials over violence

    Date: 2015-11-20 07:11:15 GMT - Guinea - Africa - SN:11 - ID:3766666

    CONAKRY, Nov 20 (MENA) - Guinean President Alpha Conde fired his interior minister and two other government officials for "gross misconduct", for their handling of deadly violence that broke out at a religious gathering last weekend. Interior ....

  • Intensive talks to hold 6th meeting on Renaissance dam in Khartoum

    Date: 2015-11-19 13:37:19 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:64 - ID:3762946

    CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) - Intensive consultations are being held between the technical and diplomatic bodies in the Eastern Nile countries of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to set a date for the sixth meeting of the water and foreign ministers in the three ....

  • Relationship between Egypt, Sudan strong - officials

    Date: 2015-11-19 13:29:54 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:63 - ID:3763010

    KHARTOUM, Nov 19 (MENA) – The strategic relationship between the Egyptian and Sudanese peoples over history is stronger than bids trying to tear them apart, the two countries had said. The remarks were given during a meeting here between Sudanese ....

  • Sudan conducts military drills along coasts of Red Sea

    Date: 2015-11-18 20:52:01 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:144 - ID:3759449

    KHARTOUM, Nov 18 (MENA) – The Sudanese army has conducted military drills along the Red Sea coast. Units of the army's navy air forces and ground forces have taken part in the annual drill. The military maneuvers were launched to boost the ....

Middle East News Agency © - designed and developed : GCSSD