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Mahlab attends US-Africa Summit session
Date: 2014-08-06 15:44:07 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:130 - ID:861615
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) - Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab attended Wednesday the first session of the Washington-based US-Africa summit, which will wrap up today. US President Barack Obama opened the session, which focused on the future of ....
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Nigerian nurse dies of Ebola as five other cases confirmed
Date: 2014-08-06 11:51:18 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:76 - ID:861148
ABUJA, Aug 6 (MENA) - A Nigerian nurse has become the second person to die of the Ebola virus in Africa’s most populous nation, Bloomberg quoted Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu as saying Wednesday. The nurse had helped treat Liberian ....
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Obama allocates 30bn dollars of assistance and investments in Africa
Date: 2014-08-06 10:17:56 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:46 - ID:860839
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an allocation of 30 billion dollars in the form of general assistance and investments in Africa. Obama, during the US-Africa summit, now in session here, also urged African ....
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Desperate Nigerians fleeing Boko Haram arriving on deserted island in Chad, UN warns
Date: 2014-08-06 07:46:47 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:18 - ID:860627
ABUJA, Aug 6 (MENA) - The United Nations refugee agency sounded the alarm on behalf of the nearly 1,000 people who recently arrived in the uninhabited Chadian island of Choua after fleeing attacks by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. According to ....
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Ebola outbreak: BA suspends flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia over virus
Date: 2014-08-05 16:30:56 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:145 - ID:859988
LONDON, Aug 5 (MENA) - British Airways cancelled its flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia, cutting off the only direct flights between Britain and the Ebola-infected area of west Africa, The Telegraph reported. The carrier, which operates a direct ....
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Liberia orders Ebola victims' bodies to be cremated
Date: 2014-08-04 19:36:18 GMT - Liberia - Africa - SN:141 - ID:858368
MONROVIA, Aug 4 (MENA) - Liberia's government has ordered that all bodies of people killed by the Ebola virus must be cremated, the BBC reported on Monday. The decision follows the refusal of some communities to allow the burial of Ebola victims ....
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8 Nigerians put in quarantine: Health ministry
Date: 2014-08-04 19:35:15 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:140 - ID:858402
ABUJA, Aug 4 (MENA) – Nigeria's health minister said that eight people have been placed in quarantine, the BBC reported Monday. Nigeria has recorded its second Ebola case - that of one of the doctors who treated a man who died from the virus ....
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UK summons Ethiopian diplomat over detention of British national
Date: 2014-08-04 19:17:37 GMT - United Kingdom - Africa - SN:136 - ID:858381
LONDON, Aug 4 (MENA) - Chargé d’Affaires at the Ethiopian Embassy in the UK Demeke Atnafu was summoned to the Foreign Office on Monday to meet the UK’s Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds, the UK Foreign Office reported. Simmonds expressed deep ....
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General Electric Co. to inject USD 2 billion in Africa
Date: 2014-08-04 16:40:23 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:103 - ID:858130
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (MENA) - General Electric Company on Monday said it would invest USD two billion in Africa by 2018 to boost infrastructure projects, the company made the announcement during the US-Africa Leaders Summit. On the sidelines of ....
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US-Africa summit kicks off in Washington
Date: 2014-08-04 15:07:12 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:80 - ID:857964
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) - The US-Africa summit kicked off here on Monday and will last for three days. The summit will witness the participation of African as well as US presidents and leaders. A civil society forum in the National Academy of ....
