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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 ....
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Kenya cop shoots 5 dead before turning gun on himself
Date: 2014-12-17 20:44:34 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:148 - ID:1560493
NAIROBI, Dec 17 (MENA) – A Kenyan official said a policeman in western Kenya has shot dead a civilian and four of his colleagues before turning the gun on himself, the Fox News reported. Western Kenya Regional Commissioner James ole Serian said ....
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Sudan VP meets IMF delegation
Date: 2014-12-17 14:29:40 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:89 - ID:1557469
KHARTOUM, Dec 17 (MENA) - Sudan's Vice President Hasabu Mohamed Abdel Rahim met on Wednesday with a delegation of the International Monetary Fund to review an economic reform program in the African country. Finance Minister Badr al Din Mahmoud ....
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Egypt, S. Sudan sign 2 agreements on cooperation in housing, water resources
Date: 2014-12-17 12:01:04 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:62 - ID:1556517
JUBA Dec 17 (MENA) – Egypt and South Sudan on Wednesday signed two agreements on cooperation in the housing and water resources domains. The move came during a visit by an Egyptian delegation led by Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation ....
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Azhar Grand Imam receives Ethiopian delegation
Date: 2014-12-17 10:37:08 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:40 - ID:1555085
CAIRO, Dec 17 (MENA) - Grand Imam of Al Azhar Dr Ahmed el Tayyeb received here on Wednesday a delegation of Ethiopian popular diplomacy, currently visiting Egypt. During the meeting, Dr Tayyeb discussed with the delegation, led by Ethiopian ....
