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Nigeria militants 'seize police academy'
Date: 2014-08-21 18:01:59 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:131 - ID:885286
ABUJA, Aug 21 (MENA) - Northern Nigeria's riot police training academy has been overrun by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a witness in Borno state has told the BBC. Shots were heard after the militants arrived in three armoured vehicles and on ....
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Yemen, Djibouti, Somalia discuss cooperation to curb refugees' flow
Date: 2014-08-21 13:15:57 GMT - Yemen - Africa - SN:87 - ID:884757
SANA'A, Aug 21 (MENA) - Deputy Foreign Minister Amir al-Aidaroos on Thursday met separately in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with Interior Minister of Djibouti Hassan Omar Mohammed Bourhan and Somali Foreign Minister Abdirahman Duale ....
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Egypt, Mauritania probe Gaza situation
Date: 2014-08-21 11:45:22 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:61 - ID:884529
CAIRO, Aug 21 (MENA) – Egypt's Ambassador in Nouakchott Ahmed Fadel Yacoub met with Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ould Teguedi to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. Egypt and Mauritania are working on achieving a quantum leap in ....
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Lebanese kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria
Date: 2014-08-21 07:48:05 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:20 - ID:884074
ABUJA, Aug 21 (MENA) - General Manager of Black Horse Industries Limited, Mr. S. Sakalawi, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, The Nation newspaper reported. The Lebanese was seized and whisked away by three ....
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New suspected Nigeria Ebola cases after officials see progress
Date: 2014-08-20 17:06:08 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:131 - ID:883408
ABUJA, Aug 21 (MENA) - Nigeria Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that five new suspected cases of the Ebola virus were discovered in Lagos, local media reported. Earlier, the health minister expressed confidence the outbreak in the country ....
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Nigeria to execute 40 soldiers over mutiny
Date: 2014-08-20 12:45:24 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:72 - ID:882545
ABUJA, Aug 20 (MENA) – Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Kenneth Minimah said some 40 soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria who refused to fight Islamist Boko Haram would be court marshaled and sentenced to death if convicted of ....
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UN says 7 million Sudanese in need of support
Date: 2014-08-20 10:02:14 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:43 - ID:882392
KHARTOUM, Aug 20 (MENA) - The number of Sudanese who are in need of humanitarian assistance rose in a year to reach seven million, said UN Resident Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan Ali Zaatari. "Those people are in an urgent need of shelter, ....
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Displaced people from S.Sudan to Sudan increased to 90,000- UNHCR
Date: 2014-08-19 20:58:12 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:160 - ID:881906
KHARTOUM, Aug 19 (MENA) - The number of displaced people from South Sudan to neighboring country Sudan has increased to 90,000 people, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sudan Angela Li Rosi said. In a press conference held ....
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WHO records 2,240 Ebola cases in four W. Africa countries
Date: 2014-08-19 18:43:10 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:138 - ID:881689
GENEVA, Aug 19 (MENA) - The World Health Organisation Tuesday put the number of cases in Ebola outbreak within four West African countries at 2,240, including 1,229 deaths, Business Day reported. The WHO said it was working with the U.N.’s World ....
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Wafd Party, Sudan's National Umma Party leaders meet in Cairo
Date: 2014-08-19 14:47:22 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:96 - ID:881336
CAIRO, Aug 19 (MENA) - Head of the al-Wafd Party al-Sayyed al-Badawi met on Tuesday with Chairman of the Sudanese National Umma Party al-Sadiq al-Mahdi and his accompanying delegation. The meeting took up the current situation in Sudan and the ....
