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Juba ready for peace agreement if rebels resume talks: minister
Date: 2014-07-02 11:58:37 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:56 - ID:807713
KHARTOUM, July 2 (MENA) - South Sudanese information minister and spokesperson of the government's peace negotiating team said they are ready to conclude a peace agreement within two weeks with the rebel SPLM if they resume their participation in ....
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Ebola death toll in West Africa rises to 467, WHO says
Date: 2014-07-01 19:24:46 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:109 - ID:807228
GENEVA, July 1 (MENA) - The number of people killed by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has risen to 467, the BBC quoted a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) as saying. Sixty-eight of the deaths had been recorded since 23 June, ....
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Water ministers of eastern Nile basin states to convene soon
Date: 2014-07-01 18:37:14 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:99 - ID:807161
KHARTOUM, July 1 (MENA) - Water ministers in the eastern Nile basin states are set to meet soon to arrange for negotiations on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam. Egypt's Hossam Moghazi, in a statement after a meeting here Tuesday with his Sudanese ....
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Egypt, COMESA agree to activate comprehensive agricultural development program
Date: 2014-07-01 14:11:43 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:62 - ID:806752
CAIRO, July 1 (MENA) - Egypt and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ( COMESA) have agreed to enhance cooperation in various agricultural fields within the framework of activating the comprehensive agricultural development ....
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Land mine kills UN peacekeeper in Mali
Date: 2014-07-01 12:31:22 GMT - Mali - Africa - SN:46 - ID:806522
BAMAKO, July 1 (MENA) - The U.N. said one peacekeeper died and six were injured after their vehicle struck a land mine in northern Mali, ABC News reported Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday 30 kilometers west of Timbuktu, which like the rest ....
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17 killed, scores injured in Nigeria blast
Date: 2014-07-01 12:04:44 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:42 - ID:806454
ABUJA, July 1 (MENA) - At least 17 people have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a market in Maiduguri, north-eastern Nigeria. The explosives were reportedly hidden in a vehicle carrying charcoal that went off at the town's ....
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Car bomb rocks crowded Nigeria market
Date: 2014-07-01 11:44:34 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:37 - ID:806277
ABUJA, July 1 (MENA) - An explosion hit a market in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a stronghold of the violent Islamist group Boko Haram, on Tuesday. The explosion, believed to be caused by a car bomb, occurred at around 8:00 a.m. when ....
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Rainstorm destroys 60 buildings, kills 15 persons in Nigeria
Date: 2014-06-30 18:46:11 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:120 - ID:805654
ABUJA, June 30 (MENA) - The Nigerian Cross River Emergency Management Agency said on Monday that a rainstorm had destroyed not less than 60 residential buildings and public structures and killed no fewer than 15 persons in different parts of the ....
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Nigeria gunmen attack village, fire on worshippers in churches
Date: 2014-06-29 21:16:25 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:130 - ID:804177
ABUJA, June 29 (MENA) - Suspected Islamic extremists sprayed gunfire at worshipers and torched four churches Sunday in a village just miles from the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, The Star reported. At least 30 bodies have ....
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Egypt amb. meets Burundi min. on bilateral relations
Date: 2014-06-29 19:27:56 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:114 - ID:804060
CAIRO, June 29 (MENA) - Egypt's ambassador in Bujumbura Attia Abo El Naga met Sunday with Burundi's Foreign Minister Laurent Kavakure. The pair discussed bilateral relations and issues of common interest. The Burundian minister hailed the ....
