Africa

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  • Zimbabwe VP denies plot to kill Mugabe

    Date: 2014-11-17 16:02:41 GMT - Zimbabwe - Africa - SN:113 - ID:1351765

    HARARE, Nov 17 (MENA) - Zimbabwe's vice president has denied reports that she is planning to assassinate President Robert Mugabe and said she is ready to defend herself in court if necessary, ABC News reported on Monday. Vice President Joice Mujuru ....

  • China sends Ebola team to Liberia to staff new clinic

    Date: 2014-11-16 20:42:35 GMT - Liberia - Africa - SN:139 - ID:1346429

    MONROVIA, Nov 16 (MENA) - About 160 Chinese health workers have arrived in Liberia to help combat Ebola, Euronews reported Sunday. They are due to staff a new clinic that unlike most other foreign aid will be built and fully run by Chinese ....

  • Islamist militants attack Somali pres. palace

    Date: 2014-11-16 20:32:50 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:136 - ID:1346405

    MOGADISHU, Nov 16 (MENA) - Islamist militants from Al-Shabab movement have attacked the Somali's presidential palace in Mogadishu on Sunday. The movement's spokesman Abu Musab said that they fired mortar bombs at the palace while top officials ....

  • Boko Haram invades two new towns in Adamawa

    Date: 2014-11-14 20:17:53 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:102 - ID:1334129

    ABUJA, Nov 14 (MENA) - Scores of Boko Haram fighters invaded two towns in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state after hunters and civilian vigilantes reportedly ousted them from a key town, local media reported on Friday. The Islamists raided Hong ....

  • Global_1: Trader Vic's: 80 Years Of Paradise

    Date: 2014-11-14 20:09:59 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:101 - ID:1334305

    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- November 16th, 2014 marks the 80th anniversary of Trader Vic's as a family owned global enterprise. As we reach this astonishing benchmark, we are proud that Trader Vic's is as popular as it has ever been ....

  • Another military helicopter crashes in Nigeria

    Date: 2014-11-14 12:59:33 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:50 - ID:1332377

    ABUJA, Nov 14 (MENA) - Less than three days after a military helicopter on surveillance mission crashed in Damare, a suburb of Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa state, another chopper believed to belong to the Nigerian Air Force has gone down ....

  • Sudan-Egypt presidential committee to convene in Khartoum in Dec.

    Date: 2014-11-13 09:53:34 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:34 - ID:1324353

    KHARTOUM, Nov 13 (MENA) – The first meeting of the high Sudanese-Egyptian presidential committee will convene in Khartoum in the first week of December, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti said. Karti described a meeting with his Egyptian ....

  • US congressional delegation to visit Sudan

    Date: 2014-11-13 09:52:28 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:33 - ID:1324509

    KHARTOUM, Nov 13 (MENA) - A delegation from the US Congress is due to visit Sudan next month, Sudanese Parliament Speaker Al-Fatih Izz Al-Deen said on Thursday. The visit comes at an invitation from the Sudanese parliament, he added. ....

  • Libya parliament voices commitment to UN's initiative

    Date: 2014-11-12 21:24:44 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:205 - ID:1322581

    TRIPOLI, Nov 12 (MENA) - The Tobruk-based Libyan parliament has voiced commitment to an initiative floated by the United Nation to end the current crisis in the country and stop violence. "The UN's initiative, which aims to stop the shedding of ....

  • 1,000 former rebels in Darfur laid off

    Date: 2014-11-12 19:42:19 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:185 - ID:1322133

    KHARTOUM, Nov 12 (MENA) - The disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program in Sudan laid off about 1,000 former fighters from Darfur armed movements which signed peace agreements with the Sudanese government. Sudanes State ....

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