Africa

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  • Study at Khartoum University suspended indefinitely

    Date: 2014-05-07 07:07:46 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:22 - ID:707593

    KHARTOUM, May 7 MENA) - Khartoum University board suspended on Wednesday study at all faculties of Shambat compound indefinitely after the latest wave of sit-ins and protests. In a statement, the board rebuffed the use of violence and arms inside ....

  • Ethiopia information center highlights Mahlab's remarks on relations with Addis Ababa

    Date: 2014-05-07 07:05:43 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:21 - ID:707516

    ADDIS ABABA, May 7 (MENA) - Ethiopia's Walta Information Centre on Wednesday shed light on the remarks of Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on the Nile River and relations with Ethiopia. Mahlab said the River Nile is an everlasting life of ....

  • South Africa election: Polls open

    Date: 2014-05-07 07:04:14 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:20 - ID:707545

    PRETORIA, May 7 (MENA) - Polls have opened in South Africa's fifth general election since the end of apartheid 20 years ago, BBC reported. About 25 million people have registered to vote - roughly half the population. The governing African ....

  • 300 killed by Boko Haram in order Town with Cameroon

    Date: 2014-05-07 06:38:17 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:17 - ID:707544

    ABUJA, May 7 (MENA) -About 300 people were killed in Nigerian border town with Cameroon, Gamboru Ngala, when armed Boko Haram insurgents drove into the town in armored vehicles. The militants targeted a local market as they fired sporadically ....

  • Obama: US to help Nigeria track down 200 kidnapped schoolgirls

    Date: 2014-05-07 06:09:09 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:9 - ID:707506

    WASHINGTON, May 7 (MENA) - President Barack Obama said the U.S. sent a team to help Nigeria locate more than 200 schoolgirls seized by Islamist militants three weeks ago, the BBC reported. President Obama said the U.S. team will combine military, ....

  • Nigerian leader accepts US help in saving abducted schoolgirls

    Date: 2014-05-06 21:23:55 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:144 - ID:707323

    ABUJA, May 6 (MENA) – Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted his US counterpart Barack Obama's offer to provide help in finding more than 200 schoolgirls, abducted in northeastern Borno State. US Secretary of State John Kerry has said ....

  • Kerry asserts importance of Egypt-Ethiopia co-op

    Date: 2014-05-06 19:54:48 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:133 - ID:707238

    ADDIS ABABA, May 6 (MENA) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who concluded a three-day visit to Addis Ababa on Saturday, asserted the importance of cooperation between Egypt and Ethiopia, Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dina Mufti said on ....

  • Egypt condemns abduction of Nigerian girls by Boko Haram

    Date: 2014-05-06 18:48:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:124 - ID:707180

    CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - The Egyptian foreign ministry deplored the kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram, spokesman for the ministry Badr Abdel-Ati said. He expressed hope that the abducted students would be released soon. ....

  • Sisi meets African media delegation

    Date: 2014-05-06 18:34:42 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:121 - ID:707069

    CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - Presidential candidate Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has received an African media delegation. The delegation included representatives of media outlets in Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Burundi. During the ....

  • Al-Azhar condemns Boko Haram kidnapping of Nigerian girls from their school

    Date: 2014-05-06 17:39:39 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:111 - ID:706852

    CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - Al-Azhar condemned Tuesday Boko Haram's kidnapping of Nigerian girls from their school, claiming they would deal with them as slaves to be sold or married by force. In a statement, Al-Azhar said this act has no link with the ....

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