Africa

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  • Senegal to host 15th Francophonie summit in 2014

    Date: 2014-11-27 10:56:18 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:47 - ID:1421573

    CAIRO, Nov 27 (MENA) – The Senegalese capital of Dakar will host the 15th Francophonie summit entitled Women and youth at the Francophonie . The summit, which is organized by the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF), will be ....

  • Suicide bombers kill more than 45 in Nigeria

    Date: 2014-11-25 16:13:54 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:129 - ID:1408765

    ABUJA, Nov 25 (MENA) - More than 45 people have died in twin bombings in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a local health worker and witnesses told Sky News on Tuesday. Health worker Dogara Shehu said he counted more than '45 people ....

  • Minister of transitional justice receives Ugandan parlt delegation

    Date: 2014-11-25 15:29:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:119 - ID:1409165

    CAIRO, Nov 25 (MENA) - Minister of Transitional Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ibrahim el-Heneidy received Tuesday a delegation from the Ugandan parliament to confer on means to boost cooperation by the Ugandan and Egyptian parliaments. Egypt ....

  • Ahwani receives African Development Bank senior official

    Date: 2014-11-25 13:04:28 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:74 - ID:1407525

    CAIRO, Nov 25 (MENA) - Minister of International Cooperation Naglaa Al-Ahwani on Tuesday received Director of North Africa Regional Department with the African Development Bank Jacob Kolster, who is now visiting here. He will during his visit, ....

  • Sudan's gov't closes off a UNAMID office in Darfur

    Date: 2014-11-25 11:34:26 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:48 - ID:1405745

    KHARTOUM, Nov 25 (MENA) – The Sudanese government closed on Tuesday a human rights office of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur. In exclusive statements to Sudanese Ray'aam paper, a well-informed source said that the government ....

  • Mali confirms eighth Ebola case, monitoring 271 people

    Date: 2014-11-25 08:38:25 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:17 - ID:1404845

    BAMAKO, Nov 25 (MENA) - Mali said on Monday that another person had tested positive for the Ebola virus, bringing the total number of cases in the West African nation to eight, according to Daily News of India. The Malian government did not provide ....

  • South Sudan president: Egypt can pass its expertise to us

    Date: 2014-11-24 22:56:25 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:172 - ID:1403613

    CAIRO, Nov 24 (MENA) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said Egypt has a high degree of expertise which it could pass on to his country. "Egypt can help us in issues related to water, agriculture and electricity," he told the ....

  • Egyptian-Sudanese relations "strategic": Egypt amb.

    Date: 2014-11-24 21:35:38 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:163 - ID:1403157

    KHARTOUM, Nov 24 (MENA) – Egypt's Ambassador in Khartoum Osama Shaltout has hailed as "strategic" Sudanese-Egyptian relations, noting that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's recent visit to Cairo was a "new leap" in the ties between the two ....

  • Egypt extends medical aid to Tanzania

    Date: 2014-11-24 09:17:09 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:27 - ID:1396545

    CAIRO, Nov 24 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry directed the Egyptian Agency for Development Partnerships to respond to a Tanzanian demand to extend medical aid supplies to equip the new morgue in the police hospital in Tanzania and delegate a ....

  • Kenyan president adviser: Al-Shabab 'wants religious war'

    Date: 2014-11-23 08:09:52 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:13 - ID:1389181

    NAIROBI, Nov 23 (MENA) - The slaughter of 28 people on a bus in Kenya is a bid to start a religious war, a senior adviser to President Uhuru Kenyatta has told the BBC. Abdikadir Mohammed called on Kenyans of "all faiths and creeds" to stand ....

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