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French president receives Guinea's counterpart at Elysee
Date: 2015-01-19 18:00:07 GMT - France - Africa - SN:116 - ID:1777937
PARIS, Jan 19 (MENA) - French President Francois Hollande received on Monday his Guinea's counterpart Alpha Omar Conde at the Elysee palace. In a press release, the Elysee palace said the meeting discussed ways of combating Ebola virus and ....
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Mali declares itself Ebola-free
Date: 2015-01-19 13:14:40 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:66 - ID:1775245
BAMAKO, Jan 19 (MENA) - Mali is free of Ebola, the country’s minister of health declared Sunday, saying that 42 days have passed since its last patient tested negative for the virus. In the outbreak afflicting West Africa - infecting more than ....
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Niger security forces fire tear gas to disperse protest
Date: 2015-01-18 21:54:39 GMT - Niger - Africa - SN:151 - ID:1771493
NIAMEY, Jan 18 (MENA) - Security forces in Niger used tear gas Sunday to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters taking part in a banned demonstration in the capital, ABC news reported Sunday. The political altercation came after 10 people ....
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Boko Haram stages attacks in Nigeria and Cameroon
Date: 2015-01-18 20:59:30 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:145 - ID:1771345
YAOUNDE, Jan 18 (MENA) - Boko Haram attacked a village in northern Cameroon early Sunday, killing three people and staging its largest kidnapping yet in the country, the information minister said, adding that some of the hostages were ....
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Medical adviser of Egyptian embassy in Khartoum dies
Date: 2015-01-18 12:12:27 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:61 - ID:1767261
KHARTOUM, Jan 18 (MENA) - The Egyptian Embassy in Khartoum mourned the death of the embassy's medical adviser Adel Abu Zeid, who breathed his last on Saturday after a sudden heart attack. In a statement Sunday, the Egyptian Embassy in Sudan ....
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Chadian president says to answer Cameroon's call to fight Boko Haram
Date: 2015-01-18 08:42:22 GMT - Chad - Africa - SN:14 - ID:1764693
N'DJAMENA, Jan 18 (MENA) - Chadian President Idriss Deby said that his country has answered the call of Cameroon's President Paul Biya to fight Islamist group Boko Haram, Deutsche Welle reported on Sunday. "We cannot remain indifferent to what ....
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Egypt, Uganda mull plan to combat flood effects
Date: 2015-01-17 15:25:56 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:81 - ID:1762357
KAMPALA, Jan 17 (MENA) - Egypt and Uganda have agreed to implement a plan to combat the effects of floods in the African country. The agreement was reached during meetings of the joint technical committee held in Kampala. Egypt's Nile water ....
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Cabinet reshuffle in Mauritania
Date: 2015-01-16 22:28:06 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:129 - ID:1757753
NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 16 (MENA) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz issued a decree on Friday appointing new ministers upon suggestion made by premier Yahya Ould Hademine. As part of the government reshuffle, four ladies took the office of ....
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4 killed, dozens wounded in violent protests against French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Niger
Date: 2015-01-16 22:11:27 GMT - Niger - Africa - SN:127 - ID:1757761
NIAMEY, Jan 16 (MENA) – Niger's interior minister said at least four people have died and dozens have been wounded in violent protests against French newspaper Charlie Hebdo's publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, FOX News reported on ....
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Malawi floods kill 170, leave thousands homeless
Date: 2015-01-16 21:39:32 GMT - Malawi - Africa - SN:121 - ID:1757501
LILONGWE, Jan 16 (MENA) - The authorities in Malawi said on Friday at least 170 people have died in flash floods - a sharp rise on previous figures, the BBC News reported. Heavy rain over the past month has swept many houses away and caused ....
