Africa

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  • Mahlab heads for South Africa to attend AU summit

    Date: 2015-06-13 06:45:38 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:10 - ID:2785421

    CAIRO, June 13 (MENA) - Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab left for South Africa Friday night to attend the Nepad and AU summits on behalf of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Mahlab is set to deliver Egypt's speech at the 25th session of the AU summit ....

  • Egypt's diplomat, Rwandan min. disucss boosting investments in Kigali

    Date: 2015-06-12 12:03:38 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:53 - ID:2781953

    CAIRO, June 12 (MENA) – Egypt's Ambassador to Rwanda Namira Negm met on Friday with Rwandan Infrastructure Minister James Musoni to discuss opportunities to pump more Egyptian investments there. A statement released by the Egyptian Foreign ....

  • Zambia lauds perfect organizing of tripartite summit in Sharm

    Date: 2015-06-12 11:28:59 GMT - Zambia - Africa - SN:45 - ID:2782225

    LUSAKA, June 12 (MENA) – Zambia's trade minister has lauded Egypt for its perfect organizing of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Summit in, which was recently held in Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian diplomat said on Friday. The Zambian minister's ....

  • AU Commission chief hails free African trade market deal

    Date: 2015-06-12 10:08:15 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:37 - ID:2781757

    JOHANNESBURG, June 12 (MENA) - Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hailed the free trade market agreement reached between Africa’s three largest economic blocs that was signed during a summit meeting in Egypt on ....

  • Shoukry holds meetings on sidelines of AU summit

    Date: 2015-06-12 08:15:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:19 - ID:2780901

    CAIRO, June 12 (MENA) – Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry held meetings with his African counterparts who are participating in the African Union summit in the South African capital of Johannesburg. Shoukry met with Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina ....

  • Shoukry meets Ethiopian FM in Johannesburg

    Date: 2015-06-12 07:52:31 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:16 - ID:2780897

    JOHANNESBURG, June 12 (MENA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Ethiopian counterpart Tedros Adhanom on the sidelines of the African Union Executive Council meetings held here in the South African capital. Shoukry was keen to ....

  • Libyan FM heads for S. Africa for contact group meeting

    Date: 2015-06-12 07:33:03 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:14 - ID:2780693

    TRIPOLI, June 12 (MENA) - Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammad al Dairi headed for South Africa to attend a meeting of the International Contact Group for Libya, which convenes on the sidelines of the African Union summit. The contact group will ....

  • Sudan's Darfur offensive forces 78,000 to flee: UN

    Date: 2015-06-11 07:00:36 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:13 - ID:2773929

    NEW YORK, June 11 (MENA) – At least 78,000 people and possibly as many as 130,000 have been driven from their homes during the Sudanese army's offensive in Darfur this year, the United Nations said on Thursday. UN peacekeeping official Edmond ....

  • Three female suicide bombers die in NE Nigeria: police

    Date: 2015-06-10 22:09:59 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:145 - ID:2773309

    ABUJA, June 10 (MENA) - Nigerian police said Wednesday that three female suicide bombers died in the flashpoint Nigerian state of Borno when the explosives strapped to their bodies detonated, Daily Mail reported. No one else was killed, the ....

  • Lavrov says Russia ready to develop ties with Sudan

    Date: 2015-06-10 22:05:20 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:142 - ID:2773117

    KHARTOUM, June 10 (MENA) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has voiced his country's readiness to develop relations with Sudan at both regional and international levels. In a cable sent to his Sudanese counterpart Ibrahim Ghandour, Lavrov ....

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