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Sierra Leone peacekeepers to leave Somalia mission
Date: 2014-12-20 19:23:09 GMT - Sierra Leone - Africa - SN:100 - ID:1578197
FREETOWN, Dec 20 (MENA) - A Sierra Leone military official says the country is withdrawing from the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia after being blocked from rotating its soldiers over concerns about the spread of Ebola, ABC News ....
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More than 6,800 dead from Ebola – WHO
Date: 2014-12-20 18:43:37 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:96 - ID:1578097
GENEVA, Dec 20 (MENA) - The Ebola death toll has risen to more than 6,800 people, almost all of them in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. As of December 13, there had been 18,464 cases of infection from the deadly ....
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Confrontations between Sudanese army, SPLA-N in South Kordofan
Date: 2014-12-20 08:08:04 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:14 - ID:1573609
KHARTOUM, Dec 20 (MENA) - The Sudan People's Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) said that its forces managed to repel an attack by the Sudanese Army in South Kordofan state. A force of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) attempted to capture Daloka area, ....
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Ebola kills Sierra Leone's most senior doctor
Date: 2014-12-19 19:27:10 GMT - Sierra Leone - Africa - SN:103 - ID:1572141
LONDON, Dec 19 (MENA) - Sierra Leone's most senior doctor has died of Ebola just hours after an experimental drug to treat him arrived at Freetown's airport, The Guardian reported on Friday. Dr. Victory Willoughby is the 11th of the country's 120 ....
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Juba rejects Sudan warning about rebels
Date: 2014-12-19 17:05:58 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:83 - ID:1571617
KHARTOUM, Dec 19 (MENA) - South Sudan's army rebuffed on Friday a warning by Sudan of a possible military incursion into the nascent state to fight rebels. The warning constitutes a declaration of war, a spokesman for the army of Juba said. He ....
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UNHCR condemns massacres in Beni, in DR Congo
Date: 2014-12-19 16:17:43 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:73 - ID:1571373
GENEAVA, Dec 19 (MENA) - The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) condemned on Friday the ongoing massacre of civilians in the Beni area of eastern Congo, according to the UN Media Center. The UNHCR is greatly concerned by the ....
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Panel on renaissance dam to convene by mid-Jan, minister says
Date: 2014-12-19 11:04:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:44 - ID:1569277
CAIRO, Dec 19 (MENA) - Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi said the tripartite panel between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the Ethiopian renaissance dam will convene in the middle of January. The panel will choose the consultant ....
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Nigerian militants kidnap 200 villagers
Date: 2014-12-19 09:17:09 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:27 - ID:1569137
MAIDUGURI, Dec 19 (MENA) - Militants have stormed a remote village in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 33 people and kidnapping about 200, a survivor has told the BBC. He said that suspected Boko Haram militants had seized young men, women ....
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Party hails Sisi' call on Ethiopian MPs to recognize Egypt's Nile water rights
Date: 2014-12-19 09:13:21 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:25 - ID:1568769
CAIRO, Dec 19 (MENA) - Egypt's Democratic Generation Party hailed a call made by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to the Ethiopian parliament to recognize the Ethiopian rights to development and the Egyptian rights to the Nile water. "What ....
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Egypt keen on stability of South Sudan - envoy
Date: 2014-12-19 08:41:53 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:20 - ID:1568757
JUBA, Dec 19 (MENA) – Egypt is keen on restoring peace and stability in all South Sudanese states, Egypt’s Ambassador here Ayman el-Gamal said. Speaking to MENA correspondent here, Gamal said Egypt is following up with the Intergovernmental ....
