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Eritrean president arrives in Cairo
Date: 2014-09-08 12:29:43 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:68 - ID:912061
CAIRO, Sept 8 (MENA) - Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki arrived at Cairo International Airport on Monday. Afewerki arrived on board of a private plane and was welcomed at the airport by Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab. During his visit, ....
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Kenya's President lauds US for killing Al Shabaab leader Godane
Date: 2014-09-06 16:31:40 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:94 - ID:909276
NAIROBI, Sep 6 (MENA) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has lauded the killing of Al Shabaab leader Muktar Abdirahman Godane, the man behind the planning of Westgate mall attack in September last year that killed at least 67 people, the state's ....
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Somalia on alert after al-Shabab leader Godane killed
Date: 2014-09-06 09:03:39 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:23 - ID:908508
MOGADISHU, Sept 6 (MENA) - Somalia is on alert for retaliatory attacks by the Islamist group al-Shabab after the group's leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, 37, was killed in a US air strike, the BBC reported. National Security Minister Kalif Ahmed Ereg ....
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Kenya leader Uhuru Kenyatta's ICC trial shelved
Date: 2014-09-05 20:23:30 GMT - Netherlands - Africa - SN:107 - ID:908177
THE HAGUE, Sept 5 (MENA) - Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have asked for the case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to be adjourned indefinitely, the BBC News reported. ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she still did ....
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Ebola death toll passes 2,000 - WHO
Date: 2014-09-05 19:32:08 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:102 - ID:908174
ABUJA, Sept 5 (MENA) - The World Health Organization said the number of people who have died in the Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000 across five West Africa countries, with about half the deaths in Liberia, Nigerian media quoted a WHO ....
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Pentagon confirms al-Shabab leader killed in airstrike in Somalia
Date: 2014-09-05 16:46:05 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:85 - ID:908035
WASHINGTON, (MENA) - The US Defense Department said Friday that it had confirmed the death of a key Somali militant leader allied with al-Qaeda who had been targeted in a US airstrike earlier this week, the Washington Post reported. Ahmed Abdi ....
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Somali terror leader killed in US drone strike
Date: 2014-09-05 14:49:09 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:71 - ID:907890
MOGADISHU, Sept 5 (MENA) - Somali Prime Minister Abdel-Wali Sheikh Ahmed has confirmed the death of the Islamist leader who ordered last year's Westgate shopping mall massacre in Kenya. Ahmed Abde Godane, the leader of the al-Shabaab militant ....
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Egypt asserts "win-win" principle in talks with Ethiopia over Nile water file: FM
Date: 2014-09-05 08:06:31 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:20 - ID:907231
CAIRO, Sept 5 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shokri said that during his visit to Ethiopia he asserted the "win-win" principle in the Nile water file. The interests and needs of both states should not be affected, he said in statements after ....
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Ethiopia PM committed to close coop. with Egypt: Shoukry 2 last Addis Ababa
Date: 2014-09-04 13:59:47 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:69 - ID:906496
Asked by MENA about Sisi's message to Desalegn, Shoukry said it was calling for pressing ahead with the joint cooperation and work in a way that maintains the interests of both sides in all fields including the Renaissance Dam. There was a need ....
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Ethiopia PM to meet Sisi in New York: Ethiopia FM
Date: 2014-09-04 13:32:50 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:65 - ID:906383
ADDIS ABABA, Sept 4 (MENA) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will meet on the sidelines of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly which will convene at UN Headquarters on 16 September, ....
