Africa
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Summit meetings of NEPAD Steering Committee start in Malabo
Date: 2014-06-25 11:42:27 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:69 - ID:797184
MALABO, June 25 (MENA) - Summit meetings of the Steering Committee of the NEPAD group kicked off here on Wednesday. Egypt's representative to the committee Ambassador Ibrahim Hassan told MENA that the meetings have special importance in light of ....
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Boutros Ghali welcomes Egypt's new Africa approach
Date: 2014-06-25 09:24:33 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:43 - ID:796817
CAIRO, June 25 (MENA) - Former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali has welcomed Egypt's new approach toward Africa. Leaving to Algeria on his first overseas visit as president, Abdel-Fattah El Sisi is sending important messages about Egypt ....
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Egypt FM asserts importance of supporting Libya
Date: 2014-06-25 09:15:41 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:42 - ID:796695
MALABO, June 25 (MENA) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry asserted Wednesday the importance of having a mechanism to support the national dialogue of Libya by its neighboring countries. Shokry attended a consultative meeting of Libya's ....
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Sisi's visit to Algeria well-timed: Algeria FM
Date: 2014-06-24 20:55:23 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:176 - ID:796160
MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - Algeria's Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said Tuesday Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's visit to Algeria on Wednesday was well-timed and reflected the deeply-rooted ties. Lamamra said that Algeria welcomed ....
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Libya's neighboring countries FMs meet in Equatorial Guinea
Date: 2014-06-24 19:19:21 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:167 - ID:796102
MALABO, June 24 (MENA) – Foreign ministers of Libya's neighboring countries held a meeting on the sidelines of the AU foreign ministers meeting in Equatorial Guinea. Algeria Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra told MENA that the meeting was the ....
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FM attends preparatory meeting for Afro-Arab summit
Date: 2014-06-24 17:44:18 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:144 - ID:795847
MALABO, June 24 (MENA) – Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry has participated in the preparatory meeting for an Arab-African summit, slated for 2016. "The meeting was a good opportunity to show our concern with boosting Arab relations with the ....
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Egypt, Tanzania FMs meet on fringe of African ministerial meeting in Malabo
Date: 2014-06-24 16:39:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:129 - ID:795849
MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - The foreign ministers of Egypt and Tanzania met Tuesday on the sidelines of an African ministerial meeting in Malabo. Bernand Membe of Tanzania congratulated his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shokri on implementing the second ....
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Putin appoints Vsevolod Tkachenko as Russian ambassador to Ethiopia, African Union
Date: 2014-06-24 15:46:14 GMT - Russia - Africa - SN:108 - ID:795651
MOSCOW, June 24 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Vsevolod Tkachenko as Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia to Ethiopia and Presidential Envoy of Russia to the African Union (AU) headquartered in Addis Ababa, The Voice of ....
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Egypt amb. stresses importance of ties with Mauritania
Date: 2014-06-24 15:44:16 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:106 - ID:795745
NOUAKCHOTT, June 24 (MENA) - Egyptian Ambassador in Nouakchott Ahmed Yacoub Tuesday stressed the importance of ties with Mauritania. Yacoub congratulated Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on his new presidential term. He was speaking at the end of a ....
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Islamist fighters 'kidnap 90 women, children' from Nigeria villages
Date: 2014-06-24 13:51:25 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:88 - ID:795472
ABUJA, June 24 (MENA) - Eyewitnesses said that Islamist militants have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys from villages in northeast Nigeria, two months after Boko Haram fighters kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in an attack which ....