Africa

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  • Somalia's al Shabaab fighters attack African Union troops: Witnesses

    Date: 2015-04-19 15:44:53 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:102 - ID:2411765

    MOGADISHU, April 19 (MENA) – Somali al Shabaab militants attacked an African Union peacekeepers' convoy on Sunday in southern Somalia, wounding at least three people and burning two vehicles. The attack was launched near the town of Leego, in the ....

  • Egypt envoy meets Ghana deputy min.

    Date: 2015-04-18 13:06:12 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:45 - ID:2403629

    CAIRO, April 18 (MENA) – Egypt’s Ambassador in Accra Mohamed Heider met with the Ghanian deputy finance minister for talks on boosting economic and trade ties. The meeting took up investments of Egyptian companies operating in the Ghanaian ....

  • Burundi police teargas protesters opposing presidential third term

    Date: 2015-04-18 06:36:11 GMT - Burundi - Africa - SN:10 - ID:2401709

    BUJUMBURA, April 18 (MENA) – Burundian police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at hundreds of protesters opposed to the president running for a third term, a further sign of tension in a nation that emerged from civil war a decade ago, ....

  • Nigerian militants Boko Haram attack 2 Cameroon villages, killing 12 people

    Date: 2015-04-17 20:09:38 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:89 - ID:2400813

    YAOUNDE, April 17 (MENA) - A Cameroon military official says Boko Haram militants have killed at least 12 people in attacks on two Cameroonian villages on the northern border with Nigeria, Fox News reported. Col. Jacob Kodji said on Friday that ....

  • South Africa descends towards a new apartheid -- report

    Date: 2015-04-17 17:56:11 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:76 - ID:2400425

    JOHANNESBURG, April 17 (MENA) - Immigrants wielding machetes have clashed with police as they hunt for locals that attacked foreign shop owners as violence continues to spread across South Africa, The Daily Mail reported. Police fired rubber ....

  • Boko Haram attacks 2 villages in Cameroon, kills 12

    Date: 2015-04-17 15:25:36 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:63 - ID:2399733

    YAOUNDE, April 17 (MENA) - Boko Haram militants killed at least 12 people in attacks on two Cameroonian villages on the northern border with Nigeria, ABC News reported Friday quoting a senior military official. The extremists entered the ....

  • South Africa's Durban city rallies against xenophobia

    Date: 2015-04-17 11:19:11 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:30 - ID:2398213

    DURBAN, South Africa, April 17 (MENA) - Up to 5,000 people have taken part in a rally against xenophobia in South Africa's coastal city of Durban following attacks on foreigners, the BBC reported Friday. President Jacob Zuma condemned the ....

  • Defense min. meets S. Sudan chief of staff

    Date: 2015-04-16 10:43:40 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:37 - ID:2390509

    CAIRO, April 16 (MENA) - Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi met on Thursday with South Sudan's Army Chief of Staff Paul Malong and his accompanying delegation. The meeting tackled the latest developments at the domestic and regional levels as well as ....

  • Parl't group visits Elsewedy Cable factory in Ethiopia

    Date: 2015-04-16 09:19:39 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:27 - ID:2389833

    ADDIS ABABA, April 16 (MENA) - The Egyptian-Ethiopian Parliamentary Friendship Group visited on Thursday Elsewedy Cable Factory outside Addis Ababa. Egypt's Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Edris and Ethiopian media were among the ....

  • Suicide bomber kills 3, wounds 16 in attack on UN peacekeeper base in northern Mali

    Date: 2015-04-15 20:53:58 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:140 - ID:2388441

    BAMAKO, April 15 (MENA) - The UN mission in Mali said a suicide bomber has attacked a peacekeeping base, killing at least three people, Fox News reported. In a statement released Wednesday, the UN mission known as MINUSMA said that the attack ....

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