Africa

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  • Egypt backs Africa's issues at international arena: FM

    Date: 2015-04-11 15:19:09 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:52 - ID:2357813

    CAIRO, April 11 (MENA) - Egypt fully backs all African issues at the international arena, especially those related to development and combating poverty, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry assured his Sierra Leonean counterpart Samura Kamara on ....

  • China offers aid to flood-affected Madagascar

    Date: 2015-04-10 22:40:48 GMT - China - Africa - SN:124 - ID:2354113

    BEIJING, April 10 (MENA) – China will provide 300,000 US dollars in cash to flood-hit Madagascar, Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry of Commerce as saying on Friday. Floods in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo and its surrounding area, caused ....

  • Chinese foreign minister to visit South Africa

    Date: 2015-04-10 11:15:38 GMT - China - Africa - SN:48 - ID:2350805

    BEIJING, April 10 (MENA) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay an official visit to South Africa on Tuesday and Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said. He and his South African counterpart will talk about preparations ....

  • UN in $174m appeal for Nigeria's Boko Haram refugees

    Date: 2015-04-10 09:46:39 GMT - Senegal - Africa - SN:32 - ID:2350053

    DAKAR, April 10 (MENA) - The United Nations launched an appeal for $174 million in what it called "life-saving aid" for almost 200,000 Nigerians who have fled the country due to brutal attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the Daily Mail reported on ....

  • Irrigation min. to present report to Sisi on outcome of meetings on Ethiopian dam

    Date: 2015-04-10 07:10:05 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:8 - ID:2349237

    CAIRO, April 10 (MENA) – Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hossam Moghazi said that he will present a report to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on the outcome of meetings on the renaissance dam that were held in Ethiopia on April ....

  • Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan select advisory offices on dam

    Date: 2015-04-09 18:42:57 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:127 - ID:2348141

    ADDIS ABABA, April 9 (MENA) - Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan selected on Thursday two European advisory offices to carry out technical studies on Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam and its effects on the Nile water share of the downstream countries. The ....

  • AL to monitor Sudan elections

    Date: 2015-04-09 14:41:10 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:85 - ID:2346349

    CAIRO, April 9 (MENA) - An Arab League (AL) delegation will head to Sudan on Friday to monitor the legislative and presidential elections, to be held on April 13-15. The 33-member delegation will be led by Alaa el Zouheri director of the ....

  • Egypt amb. in Kigali attends ceremony marking 21st anniversary of Rwanda genocide

    Date: 2015-04-09 13:10:28 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:71 - ID:2345669

    CAIRO, April 9 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador in Kigali Namira Negm attended a ceremony planned by the Rwandan government on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Rwandan President Paul Kagame delivered a speech during the ....

  • Sudanese FM to visit Turkey

    Date: 2015-04-09 08:48:04 GMT - Turkey - Africa - SN:24 - ID:2342709

    ANKARA, April 9 (MENA) – Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Kerti is to pay a three-day working visit to Turkey at an invitation of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, according to a statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on ....

  • Mauritanian president wraps up Saudi Arabia visit

    Date: 2015-04-09 06:47:34 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Africa - SN:14 - ID:2342321

    RIYADH, April 9 (MENA) - Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdulaziz left here on Thursday wrapping up a two-day official visit to Saudi Arabia. Abdulaziz met with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud during his stay in Saudi Arabia. They ....

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