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Bashir leaves for Egypt
Date: 2014-10-18 09:09:18 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:13 - ID:1147309
KHARTOUM, Oct 18 (MENA) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir left Khartoum Saturday for Cairo on an official visit at an invitation by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi. Bashir's two-day visit to Egypt comes in response to Sisi's visit to ....
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Ethiopian water minister leaves Cairo
Date: 2014-10-18 07:14:58 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:7 - ID:1146637
CAIRO, Oct 18 (MENA) - Ethiopian Water and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu left Cairo Saturday, winding up a two-day visit to Egypt during which he took part in the second round of talks with his Egyptian and Sudanese counterparts on the ....
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Ethiopia plans to build dams on 12 river basins to generate electricity: Minister
Date: 2014-10-17 21:11:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:90 - ID:1146045
CAIRO, Oct 17 (MENA) - Ethiopian Water, Irrigation and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu said Friday his country plans to build dams on 12 river basins other than the Blue Nile to generate and export electricity. The Renaissance Dam helps us set ....
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Renaissance dam committee to receive 7 offers from consultancy offices
Date: 2014-10-17 17:06:00 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:78 - ID:1145245
CAIRO, Oct 17 (MENA) - Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed Friday to receive offers from seven international consultancy offices, one of which should conduct studies recommended by an association of international experts. At the end of the 12-expert ....
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Nigeria, Boko Haram reach deal on ceasefire, release of abducted girls
Date: 2014-10-17 16:06:58 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:69 - ID:1144993
ABUJA, Oct 17 (MENA) - Nigeria's army and presidency on Friday announced they reached a deal with Boko Haram militants on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, the US-funded Radio Sawa reported. "A ceasefire ....
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Bashir visit to Egypt to enhance cooperation: amb.
Date: 2014-10-17 15:44:52 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:66 - ID:1144805
KHARTOUM, Oct 17 (MENA) – Sudan’s Ambassador to Egypt Abdel Mahmoud Abdel Haleem has said that a visit by President Omar al-Bashir to Egypt on Saturday will help promote cooperation between the two countries. The planned visit will promote ....
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UN Health Agency: Ebola outbreak over in Senegal
Date: 2014-10-17 15:40:17 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:65 - ID:1144829
GENEVA, Oct 17 (MENA) - The UN health agency officially declared an end Friday to the Ebola outbreak in Senegal, a rare bit of good news amid the public outcry and fear over the deadly disease that remains out of control in three West African ....
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Nile water reaches unprecedented high levels in Sudan
Date: 2014-10-17 15:37:37 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:64 - ID:1144733
KHARTOUM, Oct 17 (MENA) – The Nile River reached Friday unprecedented high levels in all riverbeds in Sudan, a floods committee said. The committee said such high levels are unprecedented at this time of year. The panel, affiliated to the ....
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Renaissance dam committee confers to pick up consultancy office
Date: 2014-10-17 11:18:21 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:33 - ID:1143469
CAIRO, Oct 17 (MENA) - The tripartite committee on the Ethiopian renaissance dam Friday resumed its second round of talks on the road map agreed by the irrigation ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia in August. The committee groups 12 experts - ....
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Gunmen kill three soldiers of UNAMID peacekeepers in Sudan’s darfur
Date: 2014-10-17 06:26:13 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:3 - ID:1141769
NEW YORK, Oct 17 (MENA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon “strongly condemns” the attack in Darfur, western Sudan on Thursday which resulted in the death of three Ethiopian UN peacekeepers, the UN said in a statement. The UN chief also conveyed ....
