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Kenya will 'not be intimidated' by terrorists: Interior minister
Date: 2015-04-03 11:01:23 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:41 - ID:2304201
NAIROBI, April 3 (MENA) - Kenya's interior minister vowed that the country will not bow to terrorist threats, a day after the massacre of 147 students by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab fighters. "Kenya's government will not be intimidated by the ....
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Kenyatta: Kenya badly needs additional officers
Date: 2015-04-03 10:11:02 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:40 - ID:2304057
NAIROBI, April 3 (MENA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta admitted on Friday that Kenya is in dire need of additional officers, the Kenyan broadcasting corporation reported. President Kenyatta through a statement said, “I take full responsibility ....
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Curfew imposed in north-eastern Kenya after Garissa Univ. assault
Date: 2015-04-03 10:09:29 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:39 - ID:2303745
NAIROBI, April 3 (MENA) – Kenyan authorities imposed on Friday a curfew in north-eastern Kenya after the murder of 147 people, mostly students, in an assault by the Somali Al Shabab militants on Garissa university. Kenyan Member of Parliament ....
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UN: Police used ‘excessive force’ in killing Mali protesters
Date: 2015-04-03 08:19:17 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:19 - ID:2303245
BAMAKO, April 3 (MENA) - Members of a U.N. police unit in the West African country of Mali used “unauthorized and excessive force” in fatally shooting three civilians and wounding four others during a protest in January, the U.N. announced on ....
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Egypt/Press/Headlines
Date: 2015-04-03 06:23:48 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:6 - ID:2302781
CAIRO, April 3 (MENA) - Following are the major headlines in Cairo local press on Friday: AL-AHRAM: - Sisi, Zuma discuss Mideast, African crises, bilateral ties - Five conscripts killed in Sinai terror attacks * 20 terrorists killed, 15 ....
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Egypt greets Senegal on Independence Day
Date: 2015-04-02 17:37:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:104 - ID:2301185
CAIRO, April 2 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi greeted Senegal on its Independence Day. Presidential Secretary Karim el Diwani was dispatched to the Senegalese embassy in Cairo to offer Sisi's greetings. (MENA) A F E/A R E ....
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Sisi meets S. Africa's Zuma
Date: 2015-04-02 16:30:13 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:98 - ID:2300785
CAIRO, April 2 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received on Thursday South African President Jacob Zuma. The meeting took up recent domestic and regional developments, said Spokesman for the president, Alaa Yousef. The meeting also ....
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Irrigation min. attends graduation ceremony of Ethiopian trainees
Date: 2015-04-02 16:25:44 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:97 - ID:2300577
CAIRO, April 2 (MENA) - Egypt's Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazy attended on Thursday a graduation ceremony of Ethiopian trainees at the Regional Center for Training and Water Studies in 6th of October City. The minister said that Egypt is keen ....
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Holding Christians hostage in Kenya University attack, says Somalia's Shebab
Date: 2015-04-02 13:28:25 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:70 - ID:2298961
NAIROBI, April 2 (MENA) - Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab said their gunmen were holding Christian hostages after attacking a Kenyan university today in an ongoing assault in revenge for Nairobi's troops fighting in Somalia. The gunmen divided ....
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Djibouti evacuates embassy staff in Yemen
Date: 2015-04-02 07:44:36 GMT - Yemen - Africa - SN:20 - ID:2295901
SANAA, April 2 (MENA) – Djibouti Embassy in Yemen started to evacuate its staff after the security situation deteriorated in the country, Yemen Today newspaper quoted a security source on Thursday. Yemeni Interior Ministry sent security forces to ....
