Africa

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  • Land terminals contribute to trade movement - official

    Date: 2015-08-24 10:02:21 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:30 - ID:3213785

    KHARTOUM, Aug 24 (MENA) – The trade and investment movement between Egypt and Sudan will witness a boost in the coming period thanks to land terminals between the two countries, head of Egypt’s General Authority for Ports and Dry Land Gamal Hegazy ....

  • Mali: Two UN peacekeepers seriously injured in an explosion

    Date: 2015-08-23 15:01:02 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:76 - ID:3209593

    BAMAKO, Aug 23 (MENA) - The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) condemned the use of landmines or explosive ordnance, which gravely injured two of its peacekeepers. “The MINUSMA strongly condemns ....

  • Nigerian army chief escapes Boko Haram ambush

    Date: 2015-08-22 22:20:50 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:107 - ID:3205773

    ABUJA, Aug 22 (MENA) – Nigeria's new army chief drove to the front line of the war on Boko Haram and narrowly missed an ambush that killed one soldier and wounded two, ABC News reported on Saturday. The ambushed advance team nonetheless gunned ....

  • Sisi urges proceeding with Ethiopia dam talks under declaration of principles

    Date: 2015-08-22 17:30:09 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:74 - ID:3204197

    CAIRO, Aug 22 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi had talks Saturday with Egyptian Ministers Sameh Shokry of Foreign Affairs and Hossam Eddin Moghazy of Water and Irrigation on the latest developments in the Ethiopian dam, the presidential ....

  • Tens of thousands displaced by Boko Haram in Chad

    Date: 2015-08-22 07:54:55 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:12 - ID:3200997

    GENEVA, Aug 22 (MENA) - Around 40,000 people have fled their homes in Chad in the past two weeks following attacks by militant group Boko Haram, according to an aid agency, as the insurgency stokes an escalating humanitarian crisis in the region ....

  • Ethiopia honors outgoing Egyptian Ambassador in Addis Ababa

    Date: 2015-08-21 10:17:59 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:28 - ID:3197089

    ADDIS ABABA, Aug 21 (MENA) – Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry has held a farewell ceremony for outgoing Egyptian Ambassador in Addis Ababa Mohamed Edris, the media office of the Egyptian embassy here said in a statement. During the ceremony, Ethiopian ....

  • 30 Egyptian physicians to be sent to Ghana amid medical strike

    Date: 2015-08-20 18:55:35 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:97 - ID:3195089

    CAIRO, Aug 20 (MENA) - Thirty Egyptian physicians are scheduled to travel to to Accra to run hospitals hit by a doctors' strike. The Egyptian Agency of Partnership for Development (EAPD) will fund the medical mission upon an order by Foreign ....

  • South Sudan: US threatens sanctions over rejection of pact

    Date: 2015-08-19 07:49:01 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:12 - ID:3183397

    WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (MENA) - The White House chastised President Salva Kiir of South Sudan for refusing to sign a peace agreement to halt that nation’s civil war, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The US threatened to pursue sanctions against ....

  • Up to 150 reportedly drowned, killed fleeing Boko Haram in Nigeria

    Date: 2015-08-18 17:18:34 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:100 - ID:3181957

    ABUJA, Aug 18 (MENA) - As many as 150 Nigerian villagers were reportedly killed fleeing suspected Boko Haram gunmen, some of them shot dead while others drowned in a river, Sputnik reported. As many as 150 villagers were shot dead or drowned in a ....

  • Britain urges South Sudan govt to sign peace agreement

    Date: 2015-08-18 17:03:11 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:97 - ID:3181765

    LONDON, Aug 18 (MENA) – British State Minister for North Africa Affairs, Middle East and Central Asia Tobias Ellwood has called on the government of South Sudan to sign a peace agreement proposed by the Intergovernmental Agency for Development ....

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