Africa

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  • Former SG of SPLM's reinstated

    Date: 2015-06-23 20:08:15 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:108 - ID:2852645

    JUBA, June 23 (MENA) - South Sudan's Politician Pagan Amum was reinstated as Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) after being sacked from the party. Speaking on Tuesday at the State House in Juba after a lengthy ....

  • Cholera kills 18 in South Sudan

    Date: 2015-06-23 11:17:57 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:44 - ID:2848633

    JUBA, June 23 (MENA) - At least 18 persons have died of cholera in South Sudan, the Health Ministry here said Tuesday. The cholera outbreak is most evident at overcrowded UN bases in Juba to which tens of thousands of displaced nationals fled due ....

  • Rwandan spy chief Karenzi Karake arrested in London

    Date: 2015-06-23 11:07:43 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:34 - ID:2848497

    LONDON, June 23 (MENA) - Rwanda's intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, who is wanted in Spain for war crimes, has been arrested in London, the BBC reported. Gen Karake, 54, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, and remanded in custody ahead ....

  • Bomb at fish market kills at least 20 in Nigeria

    Date: 2015-06-22 20:00:45 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:95 - ID:2846073

    ABUJA, June 22 (MENA) – At least 20 people have been killed after female suicide bombers attacked a fish market in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, the BBC reported on Monday. The attackers disguised themselves as beggars to try to ....

  • 20 killed in suicide attack in northeast Nigeria

    Date: 2015-06-22 18:35:22 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:84 - ID:2845377

    ABUJA, June 22 (MENA) - At least 20 people were killed when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a bus station in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria,Nigerian newspaper the Guardian said Monday evening. “We have sorted out 20 dead bodies ....

  • AL welcomes signature of peace, reconciliation agreement in Mali

    Date: 2015-06-22 11:34:26 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:38 - ID:2842133

    CAIRO, June 22 (MENA) - Secretary-General of the Arab League Nabil El Araby on Monday welcomed the signing of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali by the Coordination coalition of armed groups in Bamako. In a statement, El Araby ....

  • Al Shabaab claims responsibility for Somalia suicide attack

    Date: 2015-06-21 22:13:59 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:105 - ID:2840209

    MOGADISHU, June 21 (MENA) - The militant Islamist group Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber attack on a training center belonged to a Somali intelligence training center Sunday, the group spokesman said in a statement, CNN ....

  • UNAMID became economic, political burden on Sudan, Darfur authority says

    Date: 2015-06-21 13:55:28 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:57 - ID:2837725

    KHARTOUM, June 21 (MENA) - The Regional Authority of Darfur stressed on Sunday that the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) did not contribute to achieving peace or development in Sudan but became an economic and political burden on the Sudanese ....

  • Victims in attack on security HQs in Mogadish

    Date: 2015-06-21 07:32:54 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:9 - ID:2834901

    MOGADISHU, June 21 (MENA) - The Somali group al Shabab claimed responsibility for a major attack on security and intelligence headquarters buildings in the country's capital Mogadishu Sunday morning. According to Skynews Arabic Channel, heavy ....

  • 8 Somali policemen killed in armed attack

    Date: 2015-06-20 09:55:44 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:32 - ID:2830689

    MOGADISHU, June 20 (MENA) – Eight Somali policemen were killed in a raid on a police station staged by al Shabaab militants near the capital. Al Shabaab fighters stormed a police station on the edge of Afgoi town, 30km southwest of Mogadishu, ....

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