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Sierra Leone president declares public health emergency
Date: 2014-07-31 08:11:32 GMT - Sierra Leone - Africa - SN:16 - ID:851666
FREETOWN, July 31 (MENA) - Sierra Leone has declared a public health emergency to tackle the worst ever outbreak of Ebola and will call in security forces to quarantine epicentres of the deadly virus, President Ernest Bai Koroma said in a ....
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Ebola doctor in Sierra Leone dies
Date: 2014-07-30 22:19:38 GMT - Sierra Leone - Africa - SN:107 - ID:851418
FREETOWN, July 30 (MENA) - A doctor who was on the front lines fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has died from complications of the disease, Doctors Without Borders said. Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan fell ill early last week while overseeing ....
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Guinea declares week-long mourning over stampede victims
Date: 2014-07-30 08:13:01 GMT - Guinea - Africa - SN:14 - ID:850417
CONAKRY, July 30 (MENA) - At least 24 people were killed in a stampede at a beachside concert celebrating the end of Ramadan in Guinea’s capital, euronews reported, adding that Guinea’s Presidency has declared a week of mourning after what it ....
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Nigeria isolates 59 persons had contact with Ebola Virus
Date: 2014-07-29 08:32:49 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:9 - ID:849412
ABUJA, July 29 (MENA) – Lagos' Health Ministry has isolated Nigerian ambassador to Liberia, Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie and 58 persons who had contact with Ebola Virus. The Health Ministry put those persons under watch in a bid to curb spreading the ....
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Female suicide bomber kills 4, injures 8 in Nigeria
Date: 2014-07-28 15:00:35 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:74 - ID:849008
ABUJA, July 28 (MENA) - A woman blew herself up at a petrol station in northern Nigeria, killing at least four people and injuring four others, the Nigerian police said on Monday. Monday's attack in Kano comes amid other bombings, and was the ....
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Conflicting parties near Tripoli airport urged to stop firing as huge oil depot catches fire
Date: 2014-07-28 15:00:16 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:73 - ID:849009
TRIPOLI, July 28 (MENA) - The Libyan interim government sent an urgent appeal to those who own firefighting cars in Tripoli to head for outskirts of Tripoli to extinguish a blaze at an oil depot, that has been ignited by rocket attack on ....
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3 dead, 10 injured in Nigeria's Kano suicide attack
Date: 2014-07-28 13:32:15 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:62 - ID:848909
ABUJA, July 28 (MENA) - A female suicide bomber in Nigeria’s Kano city killed three persons and injured 10 others on Monday in an attack targeting a petrol station, local media reported. A female suicide bomber detonated an explosive at the ....
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Somalia shuts down 30 embassies in West Africa
Date: 2014-07-28 10:01:30 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:35 - ID:848703
MOGADISHU, July 38 (MENA) - The Somali Federal Government has announced that it will close 30 of their diplomatic missions to countries in West Africa. Mr. Abdirahman Duale Beileh, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Somali Federal Government ....
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6 killed, 8 injured in bomb blast in Nigeria church
Date: 2014-07-27 18:16:19 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:87 - ID:848036
ABUJA, July 27 (MENA) – A blast hit a church in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing six people and wounding eight others on Sunday, eye-witnesses said. Three persons were arrested for allegedly being involved in the attack. The attack came ....
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Boko Haram kidnaps wife of Cameroon vice PM
Date: 2014-07-27 15:00:42 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:61 - ID:847833
ABUJA, July 27 (MENA) - Nigerian militant group Boko Haram have abducted the wife of the country's deputy prime minister in the north, according to the BBC. The wife of Amadou Ali and her maid were taken in the town of Kolofata near the Nigerian ....
