Africa

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  • Hotel occupancy drops by 50% in Lagos

    Date: 2014-09-02 10:16:48 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:39 - ID:902309

    ABUJA, Sept 2 (MENA) - The effect of the Ebola virus is gradually taking its toll on businesses in the country, with hotel occupancy and the inbound load factor for air travel dropping by an average of 50 per cent in Nigeria’s commercial ....

  • Sudan president aide meets Egypt's amb.

    Date: 2014-09-01 19:58:42 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:151 - ID:901893

    KHARTOUM, Sept 1 (MENA) – Abul Rahman al-Saddiq al-Mahadi, the Sudanese president's assistant, met on Monday with Egypt's Ambassador in Khartoum Osama Shaltout. The meeting took up ways of boosting bilateral relations and the newly inaugurated ....

  • 70 Boko Haram terrorists killed in Nigeria

    Date: 2014-09-01 18:21:59 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:133 - ID:901807

    ABUJA, Sept 1 (MENA) - Nigerian military officials said they killed about 70 Boko Haram fighters when the Islamic extremists attacked the northeastern town of Bama Monday morning, the ABC news reported. The officials, who insisted on anonymity ....

  • Sisi sends message to Mauritanian leader

    Date: 2014-09-01 17:05:13 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:110 - ID:901507

    NOUAKCHOTT, Sept 1 (MENA) - Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has received a cable from his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Egypt's Ambassador in Nouakchott Ahmad Fadel Yaaqoub delivered the message during a meeting with ....

  • AACDI urges adopting policies that achieve integration

    Date: 2014-09-01 15:14:22 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:101 - ID:901340

    CAIRO, Sept 1 (MENA) - The Arab African Council For Development and Integration (AACDI) called on the leaders of the Arab and African countries to adopt policies that can achieve economic integration and serve the interests of their nations. In ....

  • Migrant boat with around 90 people on board sinks in LIbya

    Date: 2014-09-01 15:03:06 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:96 - ID:901345

    TRIPOLI, Sept 1 (MENA) - The Libyan navy found a boat carrying more than 90 illegal migrants on board, the navy spokesman Ayoub Qassem. In statements to MENA Monday, Qassem said that the coast guards found the sunken boat. The naval forces ....

  • Sudan’s NCP to begin selection process for presidential candidate in late October

    Date: 2014-09-01 09:12:10 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:39 - ID:900637

    KHARTOUM, Sept 1 (MENA) - The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan announced that it will embark on the process to choose the party’s candidate for presidential elections in 2015, by October 26. In press statements Monday, Party ....

  • Boko Haram kill 14 in Jibwhiwhui village

    Date: 2014-09-01 06:26:43 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:14 - ID:900347

    ABUJA, Sept 1 (MENA) - At least 14 people were killed in Jibwhiwhui village of Hawul local government area of Borno state and its surrounding villages when gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram insurgents invaded the area, Nigeria's Daily ....

  • 3 new Ebola cases moved to quarantine

    Date: 2014-09-01 06:18:06 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:13 - ID:900372

    ABUJA, Sept 1 (MENA) - The Rivers Commissioner for Health, Dr Sampson Parker, on Sunday in Port Harcourt said three persons have been moved to the state’s treatment centre for observation on the Ebola disease. At a press conference, Parker told ....

  • 12 dead in Islamist attack on Somali prison

    Date: 2014-08-31 18:50:38 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:108 - ID:900135

    MOGADISHU, Aug 31 (MENA) - Islamist rebels dressed in government military uniforms approached the gate of a high security prison in Mogadishu on Sunday, set off a car bomb and fired their way into the building, eyewitness Farah Mohammed told ....

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