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Somali MP Yusuf Dirir killed in Mogadishu attack
Date: 2015-05-24 07:40:16 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:9 - ID:2651477
MOGADISHU, May 24 (MENA) – A Somali member of parliament has been shot dead in Mogadishu in an attack by suspected Islamist militants, the BBC reported on Sunday. Security officials said that Yusuf Dirir was killed when gunmen opened fire on his ....
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Al Shabab gunmen kill Somali MP
Date: 2015-05-23 19:40:13 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:119 - ID:2650589
MOGADISHU, May 23 (MENA) - A Somali member of parliament has been shot dead in Mogadishu by militants from the al Shabab movement, BBC reported. MP Yusuf Mohamed Dirir died in hospital after a group of men stopped his car and proceeded to fire at ....
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Egyptian irrigation minister to visit Congo on May 29
Date: 2015-05-23 15:36:07 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:82 - ID:2649017
CAIRO, May 23 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador in Kinshasa Hani Salah met with the Congolese minister of environment and sustainable development who voiced anticipation for the visit of the Egyptian minister of water resources and irrigation to Congo on ....
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Egypt restores leading role in Africa -- Minister
Date: 2015-05-23 11:04:33 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:46 - ID:2647101
CAIRO, May 23 (MENA) - Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy said Saturday that Egypt has restored its leading role in Africa, where the environment file is concerned. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is the chairman of the committee of heads of ....
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Egypt amb. in Rwanda meets University of Rwanda president
Date: 2015-05-23 10:26:47 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:38 - ID:2646977
CAIRO, May 23 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador to Rwanda Namira Negm met Saturday with the University of Rwanda President Nelson Ijumba. The meeting focused on the possibility of establishing an Egyptian academic center for mining and geology in ....
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Diplomatic moves to end Khartoum-Juba accusations - spokesman
Date: 2015-05-23 10:07:15 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:36 - ID:2646409
KHARTOUM, May 23 (MENA) – Intensive diplomatic moves will take place in the coming few days to put an end to accusations exchanged between Khartoum and Juba, South Sudanese government spokesman Michael Makuei said. The exchanged accusations will ....
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No extremists sneaked into Sudan from Libya – army
Date: 2015-05-23 09:26:52 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:29 - ID:2646189
KHARTOUM, May 23 (MENA) – The Sudanese army denied the infiltration of extremist religious groups of Daesh or Qaeda from the Libyan borders into Sudan. The Sudanese-Libyan borders are completely secured although major challenges have been facing ....
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PM meets AfDB mission
Date: 2015-05-21 10:59:23 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:45 - ID:2634553
CAIRO, May 21 (MENA) – Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab received Thursday a visiting delegation of the African Development Bank (AfDB) led by bank General Counsel Kalidou Gadio. During the meeting, Mahlab said Egypt intends to promote partnership ....
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4 killed as UN compound in S. Sudan bombed
Date: 2015-05-20 20:39:02 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:150 - ID:2631633
JUBA, May 20 (MENA) - Four civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed when two mortar bombs exploded inside a UN compound in the town of Melut in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, the UN reported on Wednesday. Eight more people were ....
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Tripartite meeting between Sudan, Chad, UNHCR
Date: 2015-05-20 15:04:14 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:102 - ID:2629773
KHARTOUM, May 20 (MENA) - A tripartite meeting between Sudan, Chad and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) started Wednesday in Khartoum. Sudanese Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior Babiker Ahmed Digna affirmed his country's ....
