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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 ....
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Nigeria undecided about evacuating nationals from Libya
Date: 2014-08-04 12:23:42 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:57 - ID:857438
ABUJA, Aug 4 (MENA) - The Nigerian Foreign Ministry announced that the government has still not yet decided to evacuate its nationals from Libya. This comes on the backdrop of the mounting violence in Libya. In statements on Monday, an ....
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Agriculture minister wraps up visit to Mauritania
Date: 2014-08-03 15:40:04 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:94 - ID:856265
CAIRO, Aug 3 (MENA) - Agriculture and Land Reclamation Minister Adel el-Beltagy wrapped up his two-day visit to Mauritania, where he held talks with Mauritania's Minister of Rural Development Brahim Ould Mohamed El Moctar. The minister ....
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ECOWAS confirms death of 720 people of Ebola virus
Date: 2014-08-02 20:34:43 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:130 - ID:855090
ABUJA, Aug. 2 (MENA) - ECOWAS is cooperating with Member States and international partners to stem the spread of the Ebola virus disease which claimed more than 720 lives from over 1,000 cases reported in the region, the President of the ECOWAS ....
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'I will lead Nigerians to defeat Boko Haram' – Pres.
Date: 2014-08-02 19:02:15 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:116 - ID:854977
ABUJA, Aug 2 (MENA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to lead Nigerians to defeat the violent Boko Haram sect, the Nigerian Daily Post reported. He said that it beat his imagination that Nigerians could make themselves available ....
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U.S.-Africa Summit to focus on economics, security
Date: 2014-08-02 14:30:56 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:60 - ID:854577
WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (MENA) – Over 50 African heads of state are expected to attend a three-day U.S. and Africa Leaders Summit to be held in Washington on August 4. The first such event of its kind, the Summit, is the largest event any U.S. President ....
