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Summit meetings of NEPAD Steering Committee kick off on Wednesday
Date: 2014-06-24 13:26:48 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:80 - ID:795255
MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - Summit meetings of the Steering Committee of the NEPAD will kick off on Wednesday. Egypt's representative to the committee Ambassador Ibrahim Hassan told MENA that the meetings have special importance in light of the topics ....
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Sisi will deliver keynote speech at AU Summit
Date: 2014-06-24 11:43:50 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:51 - ID:795125
MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will deliver a keynote speech at the inaugural session of the African Summit that will be held here on Thursday and Friday. President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema ....
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Second day of African FMs meetings kicks off in Equatorial Guinea
Date: 2014-06-24 09:03:38 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:28 - ID:794645
MALABO, June 24 (MENA) - The executive council of the foreign ministers of the African Union resumed meetings here on Tuesday to prepare for the 23rd Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU). President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will lead Egypt's ....
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Five killed in new Kenya coast attack
Date: 2014-06-24 07:46:43 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:22 - ID:794623
NAIROBI, June 24 (MENA) - At least five people have been killed in attack on the Kenyan coast, close to the scene of raids last week in which more than 60 people died, the BBC reported. Officials said an armed gang descended on the village of ....
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Egypt FM attends AU banquet in Malabo
Date: 2014-06-23 21:58:52 GMT - Guinea - Africa - SN:170 - ID:794303
MALABO, June 23 (MENA) - The executive council of the foreign ministers of the African Union will continue on Tuesday its meetings in preparation for the AU heads of state summit, slated for Thursday. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is ....
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60 women reportedly abducted in Nigeria
Date: 2014-06-23 20:33:36 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:163 - ID:794219
ABUJA, June 23 (MENA) - Sixty women were abducted by insurgents in Borno State of Nigeria on Monday, local media reported. No further information is available. Boko Haram, which Western governments and Abuja say is linked to al-Qaeda, had ....
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Africa has always been top priority for Egypt: FM
Date: 2014-06-23 20:05:01 GMT - Equatorial Guinea - Africa - SN:159 - ID:794170
MALABO, June 23 (MENA) – Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry said on Monday that Africa has always been a top priority for Egypt. In a speech before the executive meeting of the African Union's foreign ministers to prepare for the AU summit ....
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Egypt proud to be among AU founders: FM
Date: 2014-06-23 20:04:06 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:158 - ID:794141
MALABO, June 23 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry said that Egypt was proud to be among the leading founders of the African Union, adding that the continent issues had always topped Egypt's priorities. During the AU foreign ministers' ....
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Kenya 'bombs al-Shabab bases' in Somalia
Date: 2014-06-23 17:01:13 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:128 - ID:793873
MOGADISHU, June 23 (MENA) - Kenyan fighter jets have bombed the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group in Somalia, killing more than 80 of its fighters, the BBC news quoted the African Union (AU) force in Somalia as saying on Monday. The assault on the ....
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Explosion rocks college in Kano, Nigeria
Date: 2014-06-23 16:10:19 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:114 - ID:793787
ABUJA, June 23 (MENA) - An explosion has struck a public health college in Nigeria's second city of Kano, in the north, the BBC news reported. At least seven people were killed in the blast at the Kano School of Hygiene, the police said. The ....
