Africa

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  • U.S launch airstrikes against Shabab militants in Somalia

    Date: 2015-07-24 07:05:45 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:8 - ID:3032673

    WASHINGTON, July 24 (MENA) - The U.S. is shifting to a more direct role in the near decade-old fight against Al Qaeda-affiliated Shabab militants, launching as many as six drone strikes in southern Somalia over the last week to support African ....

  • Ethiopian dam meetings to resume after Friday prayers

    Date: 2015-07-24 06:50:49 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:6 - ID:3032661

    KHARTOUM, July 24 (MENA) – The national technical committee on the grand renaissance dam will resume its meetings after the Friday prayers to discuss the scope and mechanism of work of the two international consultancy firms chosen to carry out the ....

  • Sources: 7th round of Renaissance Dam talks in Sudan going on smoothly

    Date: 2015-07-23 10:46:56 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:30 - ID:3028581

    KHARTOUM, July 23 (MENA) – The seventh round of Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam talks, currently on session in Sudan, are going on smoothly, well-informed sources said on Thursday. The second-day meetings of the Tripartite Technical Committee on the ....

  • 7th round of Ethiopia dam talks continues for second day

    Date: 2015-07-23 08:41:10 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:21 - ID:3028061

    KHARTOUM, July 23 (MENA) - The Tripartite Technical Committee on the Renaissance Dam continued its meetings in the Sudanese capital on Thursday for the second consecutive day with the participation of the water ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and ....

  • Blasts kill at least 29 in Nigerian city of Gombe

    Date: 2015-07-23 07:12:53 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:14 - ID:3027417

    ABUJA, July 23 (MENA) - At least 29 people died and 60 were wounded in multiple bomb blasts at two bus stations in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Wednesday evening, a Red Cross official said, according to Business Insider. There was no ....

  • Ethiopian min. praises recent coop. between Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan over renaissance dam

    Date: 2015-07-22 13:35:39 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:51 - ID:3023965

    KHARTOUM, July 22 (MENA) - Ethiopian Minister of Water and Energy Alemayehu Tegenu praised on Wednesday recent cooperation between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan. In his address at the seventh round of talks on Ethiopia's renaissance dam, Tegenu said ....

  • Mali forces arrest 15 militants, destroy camps-- Sources

    Date: 2015-07-22 12:42:00 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:46 - ID:3023157

    BAMAKO, July 22 (MENA) - Army forces in Mali have arrested over a dozen militants and demolished two camps belonging to militant groups in operations near the southern border with Ivory Coast, sources say. Some 15 militants were apprehended and ....

  • Sudanese minister hopes Renaissance dam meetings reach comprises

    Date: 2015-07-22 10:34:32 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:34 - ID:3022661

    KHARTOUM, July 22 (MENA) - Sudanese Minister of Water Resources, Irrigation and Electricity Mutaz Musa is looking forward that the current meeting of the Tripartite Technical Committee on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam would come up with compromises on ....

  • Egypt outlines impact of Ethiopia Dam in 2 studies

    Date: 2015-07-22 08:37:31 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:22 - ID:3021957

    KHARTOUM, July 22 (MENA) - Egypt presented two studies to Sudan and Ethiopia to outline the impact of the under-construction Renaissance Dam on it, said the country's Water Resources Minister Hossam Moghazi. Moghazi, speaking on the sidelines of ....

  • 7th round of Renaissance Dam talks kicks off in Khartoum

    Date: 2015-07-22 07:37:57 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:16 - ID:3021233

    KHARTOUM, July 22 (MENA) - The seventh round of the tripartite technical national committee on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam kicked off here in the presence of water resources ministers from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia Hossam Moghazi, Moataz Moussa and ....

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