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Nigeria president accuses ex-officers of stealing billions in arms deals
Date: 2015-11-18 14:48:39 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:96 - ID:3757194
ABUJA, Nov 17 (MENA) - Nigeria's leader has ordered the arrest of the former president's national security adviser for allegedly stealing billions of dollars meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram Islamic extremists rampaging across northeast ....
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Dozens killed in blast at market in Nigerian city of Yola
Date: 2015-11-18 14:47:24 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:95 - ID:3757154
ABUJA, Nov 18 (MENA) - A blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday evening, killing 32 people and wounding 80 others, both the Red Cross and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. The explosion occurred ....
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Five Tanzanian miners freed after 41 days trapped underground, says ministry
Date: 2015-11-17 11:34:42 GMT - Tanzania - Africa - SN:58 - ID:3748273
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 17 (MENA) - Five Tanzanian gold miners have been rescued after spending 41 days trapped deep underground eating cockroaches and frogs to survive, media reports quoted the mining ministry and survivors as saying. The miners were ....
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Boko Haram destroyed 1,000 schools last year -- envoy
Date: 2015-11-16 18:48:06 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:98 - ID:3744509
NEW YORK, Nov 16 (MENA) - Boko Haram Islamists have destroyed an estimated 1,100 schools this year in their stronghold region surrounding Lake Chad, United Nations envoy to the region Toby Lanzer said on Monday. Lanzer, who became the UN envoy ....
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Sisi meets Kenyan lawmakers
Date: 2015-11-15 16:57:32 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:86 - ID:3736685
CAIRO, Nov 15 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi underlined the importance of using the Nile water on the basis of mutual benefit that does not harm any side. During a meeting with a delegation of the Kenyan National Assembly’s (lower house) ....
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Mauritania calls on world to double efforts to face terror
Date: 2015-11-15 09:18:00 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:26 - ID:3732529
NOUAKCHOTT, Nov 15 (MENA) - The Mauritanian government called on the countries of the world to double efforts and achieve international solidarity to face terror. In a statement Sunday, the Mauritanian Foreign Ministry necessitated doubling ....
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Khartoum to host meeting of irrigation, foreign ministers of Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia
Date: 2015-11-14 10:04:44 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:36 - ID:3726653
KHARTOUM, Nov 14 (MENA) - Khartoum will host a six-way meeting of the foreign and irrigation ministers of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia on November 21. The meeting is meant to reach a consensus about pending issues regarding Ethiopia's renaissance ....
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Egypt, Chad has 'historic' relations, fight terror -- ambassador
Date: 2015-11-13 19:25:48 GMT - Chad - Africa - SN:69 - ID:3724329
N'DJAMENA, Nov 13 (MENA) - Egyptian Ambassador to Chad Adham Mohammed Najib on Friday asserted that Egyptian-Chadian relations are profound and historic. In statements to MENA, Najib said that both Egypt and Chad are currently fighting ....
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Somalia rejects border wall construction by Kenya
Date: 2015-11-13 13:18:34 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:38 - ID:3722133
MOGADISHU, Nov 12 (MENA) – Somali Interior Minister Abdirahman Odawa has restated that his country is unhappy and protesting against Kenya’s plan to construct a security wall along its porous border with Somalia. The interior minister said that ....
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Kenyan parliamentary delegation arrives in Cairo
Date: 2015-11-13 13:15:22 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:37 - ID:3722145
CAIRO, Nov 13 (MENA) - A Kenyan parliamentary delegation arrived here on Friday on a several days visit to Egypt. The delegation consists of eight members of the defense and foreign affairs committees of the Kenyan parliament. Coming from ....
