Africa

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  • 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 ....

  • Committee to demarcate borders bet. Sudan, S. Sudan to meet on Dec. 7

    Date: 2014-11-22 21:27:31 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:112 - ID:1388133

    KHARTOUM, Nov 22 (MENA) - The Sudanese government on Saturday announced that the joint committee tasked with demarcating borders with South Sudan would meet on December 7 to set out a road-map to draw the disputed border lines. The road-map would ....

  • U.K. minister condemns Kenya terrorist attack

    Date: 2014-11-22 18:48:12 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:95 - ID:1387561

    LONDON, Nov 22 (MENA) - U.K. Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire on Saturday condemned a terrorist attack in Kenya and pledged continued U.K. support in the fight against Al Shabab. "I strongly condemn the attack that took place in Mandera county, ....

  • Egypt condemns terrorist attack in Kenya

    Date: 2014-11-22 17:57:29 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:94 - ID:1387045

    CAIRO, Nov 22 (MENA) - Egypt has categorically condemned the terrorist attack that took place in Kenya, killing 28 people. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Badr Abdel-Atti said terror was an international phenomenon that targeted stability and ....

  • Egypt's ambassador in Khartoum: Plans outlined for increasing Egyptian investments in Sudan

    Date: 2014-11-22 13:26:27 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:48 - ID:1384361

    KHARTOUM, Nov 22 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador to Sudan Ossama Shaltout said there are plans for increasing the volume of Egyptian investments in Sudan. In statements to the Sudanese News Agency on Saturday, Shaltout said Egypt's investments in ....

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