Africa

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  • Shoukry sends message to his Togolese counterpart on coop.

    Date: 2015-04-20 15:26:57 GMT - Togo - Africa - SN:83 - ID:2418717

    LOME, April 20 (MENA) – Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has sent a message to his Togolese counterpart Robert Dussey on Egypt's nomination for the non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council in 2016-2017. This came during a meeting of Egypt's ....

  • Egypt, Sudan acting to achieve integration

    Date: 2015-04-20 10:27:58 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:37 - ID:2416485

    KHARTOUM, April 20 (MENA) - Egypt and Sudan are acting to achieve integration, Agriculture Minister Salah Helal said Monday. Speaking in the inaugural session of meetings between the two ministers, Helal said the political leadership here and in ....

  • Sudanese in Aswan vote for Bashir

    Date: 2015-04-20 10:26:40 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:35 - ID:2416337

    ASWAN, April 20 (MENA) - Most of Sudanese who cast their ballots in their country's consulate in Aswan, south Egypt, voted for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a Sudanese diplomat here said. Sudan's general consul in Aswan Ahlam Abdel-Jalil ....

  • 23 killed in central Nigeria communal clashes

    Date: 2015-04-19 15:51:08 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:104 - ID:2412557

    ABUJA, April 19 (MENA) - Deadly clashes between two chiefly fishing and farming communities in central Nigeria’s Benue state have left at least 23 people dead. “Some 23 corpses have been recovered following the fighting between Ologba and Egba ....

  • 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 ....

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