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Kerry calls on S. Sudan govt to immediately stop fighting
Date: 2014-04-11 07:04:59 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:12 - ID:661722
WASHINGTON, April 11 (MENA) - Secretary of State John Kerry met today with South Sudanese Minister in the Office of the President Awan Riak. Kerry voiced his grave concern with respect to the situation there, and reaffirmed support for the people ....
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WHO officials describe Ebola outbreak in West Africa as ‘challenging’
Date: 2014-04-10 15:12:44 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:119 - ID:660728
GENEVA, April 10 (MENA) - Doctors from the World Health Organisation have described the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa as ‘one of the most challenging ever to strike since the disease emerged four decades ago’. They ....
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Islamist gunmen kill 8 in northern Nigeria attack
Date: 2014-04-10 09:14:54 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:42 - ID:660054
ABUJA, April 10 (MENA) - Scores of Islamist gunmen attacked a police station, a court and a bank in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, killing seven officers and a civilian, a police chief told FRANCE 24. The raid in the town of Gwaram in Jigawa ....
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Egypt to return soon to AU after roadmap implementation: AU chief
Date: 2014-04-10 08:58:31 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:41 - ID:659962
ADDIS ABABA, April 10 (MENA) - African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said on Thursday that Egypt would return soon to the union after the implementation of the roadmap. Zuma said, in a banquet held by Kuwaiti Ambassador ....
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Juba complains to Security Council over Sudan violations
Date: 2014-04-10 07:27:35 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:27 - ID:659788
KHARTOUM, April 10 (MENA) – South Sudan submitted on Thursday a statement to Haile Menkerios, Head of the UN Office to the AU and Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, in which it accused the Sudan's armed forces of conducting “unusual movements” ....
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Two Shabab members arrested in Somalia
Date: 2014-04-09 22:25:32 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:197 - ID:659537
ADDIS ABABA, April 9 (MENA) - Hudur town governor Mohamed Moalim on Tuesday confirmed to local media that two Shabab members have been arrested at the suburb of the town after security operation by joint Somali and African Union Mission to Somalia ....
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Kenya sends back 'illegal' Somalis
Date: 2014-04-09 22:14:36 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:195 - ID:659538
NIROBI, April 9 (MENA) - Kenya has sent back 82 Somalis to Somalia after launching a massive security force operation to flush out illegal immigrants and militant Islamists, the BBC news reported. The group had been in Kenya illegally, a Somali ....
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UN urges DR Congo to end impunity for ‘widespread’ sexual violence
Date: 2014-04-09 20:44:45 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:184 - ID:659512
NEW YORK, April 9 (MENA) - The United Nations called Wednesday on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to step up the fight against impunity for rape and sexual violence, which remain widespread and largely unpunished, UN ....
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Fahmy : Egypt, Sudan , Ethiopia views about Renaissance Dam not necessarily identical -- FM
Date: 2014-04-08 14:35:24 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:95 - ID:656480
CAIRO, April 8 (MENA) – Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said that Egypt has realized from the beginning that Ethiopia, Sudan and itself have views and assessments about the Renaissance Dam that are not necessarily identical. "To bring their ....
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Konare expresses support for road map
Date: 2014-04-08 14:12:45 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:94 - ID:656683
CAIRO, April 8 (MENA) - Head of an African Union delegation, now visiting here, Alpha Oumar Konare, on Tuesday expressed his support for the transitional road map in Egypt. At a joint press conference with Arab League chief Nabil el-Arabi, Konare ....
