Africa

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  • Irrigation minister arrives in Juba for water, development coop. talks

    Date: 2015-02-23 12:50:43 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:72 - ID:2025325

    JUBA, Feb 23 (MENA) – Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hossam Moghazy arrived in Juba Monday on a four day visit to open a number of water and development projects. He is accompanied by 23 experts from the ministries of ....

  • Egypt's irrigation minister heads for Juba

    Date: 2015-02-23 10:03:21 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:32 - ID:2023565

    KHARTOUM, Feb 23 (MENA) - Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hossam Moghazi left here Monday for Juba on a four-day visit to South Sudan. During the visit, Moghazi will inaugurate and visit a number of water and developmental ....

  • Girl suicide bomber kills 5 in northeastern Nigeria market

    Date: 2015-02-23 09:01:41 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:24 - ID:2023421

    ABUJA, Feb 23 (MENA) - A witness and hospital records say a girl suicide bomber blew herself up, killing four others and seriously wounding 46 at a busy market in Potiskum in northeastern Nigeria, the ABC News reported. Survivor Anazumi Saleh ....

  • 486 miners trapped by fire found safe in S. Africa

    Date: 2015-02-22 20:59:04 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:143 - ID:2022057

    JOHANNESBURG, Feb 22 (MENA) - All 486 miners trapped underground after a fire broke out at a South African goldmine have been found safe, ABC News quoted the mine's spokeswoman as saying on Sunday. The 18 miners who were still missing shortly ....

  • Young girl suicide bomber kills several in northeastern Nigeria

    Date: 2015-02-22 17:22:41 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:113 - ID:2020873

    ABUJA, Feb 22 (MENA) - A girl witnesses estimated to be no more than eight years old has carried out a suicide bombing in northeastern Nigeria, DW TV reported. Witnesses and hospital sources said a total of six people, including the girl, were ....

  • Nile Basin ministers plant saplings in Khartoum school

    Date: 2015-02-22 11:49:01 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:55 - ID:2017989

    KHARTOUM, Feb 22 (MENA) – Nile Basin water resources ministers planted several saplings, each representing a Nile country, at a school in Khartoum on Sunday as a symbol of the future of the young generation. Egyptian Water Resources Minister ....

  • Nile Basin Initiative countries to review report in Tanzania meeting in June

    Date: 2015-02-21 21:45:56 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:153 - ID:2015325

    KHARTOUM, Feb 21 (MENA) – Head of the Technical Water Resources Organ of the Nile Basin Initiative Seifeldin Hamad Abdalla announced on Saturday that the report issued during the meetings of the technical committee will be raised to the ....

  • Mansoura University inks agreement with Mauritanian university of medicine, technology

    Date: 2015-02-21 17:53:35 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:119 - ID:2014757

    NUACKCHOTT, Feb 21 (MENA) - Mansoura University inked an agreement with Mauritanian university of medicine and technology. The agreement, that was inked in the Egyptian cultural center here, aims at boosting bilateral cooperation in training and ....

  • Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia FMs to meet on dam in March

    Date: 2015-02-21 17:50:52 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:116 - ID:2014697

    KHARTOUM, Feb 21 (MENA) – A tripartite committee on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which comprises Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, will meet at the level of foreign ministers in March to discuss a number of pending issues. "The meeting may be attended ....

  • Gunmen abduct 89 children from South Sudan school

    Date: 2015-02-21 16:21:08 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:97 - ID:2014013

    NEW YORK, Feb 21 (MENA) - Armed groups raided a South Sudanese school and seized 89 children, the United Nations said Saturday. It pointed out that boys were among those taken. The abduction occurred near Malakal, where thousands of people have ....

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