Africa

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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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • Body of Ebola victim cremated in Lagos

    Date: 2014-07-27 09:31:49 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:20 - ID:847137

    ABUJA, July 27 (MENA) - The body of the first victim of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria, who died in Lagos on Friday, has been cremated, Vanguard reported on Sunday. The event was witnessed by officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health and ....

  • Magdi Yacoub, Egyptian amb. to Ethiopia inaugurate intensive care unit for heart surgery

    Date: 2014-07-26 15:22:17 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:56 - ID:846408

    CAIRO, July 26 (MENA) - Renowned heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub and Egyptian Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Edris inaugurated an intensive care unit for heart surgery in Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa. Yacoub is currently visiting Addis Ababa, ....

  • US evacuates embassy in Libya amid clashes

    Date: 2014-07-26 14:13:46 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:45 - ID:846220

    WASHINGTON, July 26 (MENA) - The State Department has shuttered the US embassy in Libya and evacuated American staffers there as the security situation in the capital Tripoli deteriorates amid worsening clashes between rival militias, the ABC News ....

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