Africa

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  • 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 ....

  • Nile basin initiative countries agree to hold extraordinary meeting in Tanzania next June

    Date: 2015-02-21 14:13:08 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:75 - ID:2013137

    KHARTOUM, Feb 21 (MENA) - The water ministers in the Nile basin countries agreed on holding an extraordinary meeting in Tanzania in June. During the meeting, the consultations held in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum will be resumed. The Ethiopian ....

  • Irrigation minister says tripartite committee receives 4 offers on renaissance dam

    Date: 2015-02-21 12:46:29 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:41 - ID:2011449

    KHARTOUM, Feb 21 (MENA) - Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi said on Saturday that a three-way committee on the Ethiopian renaissance dam has received four offers from international consultancy offices to complete hydraulic and environmental ....

  • Egypt urges Nile states to understand its water concerns

    Date: 2015-02-21 11:28:55 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:46 - ID:2011613

    KHARTOUM, Feb 21 (MENA) – Egyptian Water Resources Minister Hossam Moghazi urged Nile basin countries to understand Egypt's position as it depends on the Nile water to fulfill 97% of its needs. Speaking during a meeting with his Nile basin ....

  • Irrigation minister: Egypt reassessing NBI to solve pending issues

    Date: 2015-02-21 10:20:20 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:38 - ID:2011013

    KHARTOUM, Feb 21 (MENA) - Egypt is reassessing the Nile Basin Initiative and pending issues with NBI members with the aim to reach a solution, Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi said on Saturday. Moghazi, who leads Egypt's delegation to an NBI ....

  • Death toll from attack on Somali hotel rises to 25

    Date: 2015-02-21 09:51:15 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:34 - ID:2010977

    MOGADISHU, Feb 21 (MENA) - The death toll in Friday's bombing of a hotel in the Somali capital has risen to 25, including two lawmakers and workers from the prime minister's office, according to ABC News. One Islamic extremist rammed an ....

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