Africa

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  • Cameroon envoy visits AAST

    Date: 2014-04-03 13:44:25 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:88 - ID:647451

    ALEXANDRIA, April 3 (MENA) - Cameroon's Ambassador to Egypt Mohamadou Labarang visited on Thursday the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AAST) in Abu Qir district, northeast Alexandria. The Ambassador toured the AAST ....

  • Egypt, Luxembourg probe African causes

    Date: 2014-04-03 12:26:28 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:70 - ID:647320

    CAIRO, April 3 (MENA) - Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs Sabry Magdy Sabry had talks with Luxembourg officials on African issues on the sidelines of the 4th EU-Africa Summit held in Brussels. The talks with officials from ....

  • Strong Egyptian participation in AU-ECA meetings

    Date: 2014-04-03 11:20:49 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:52 - ID:647108

    CAIRO, April 3 (MENA) - The seventh joint annual meetings of the African Union-UN Economic Commission for Africa (AU-ECA), which took place March 25-30 in Abuja, saw a strong Egyptian participation, Egypt's Ambassador to Nigeria Ashraf Abdel-Qader ....

  • Russia, South Africa leaders discuss ties

    Date: 2014-04-02 17:36:15 GMT - Russia - Africa - SN:150 - ID:646054

    MOSCOW, April 2 (MENA) - The Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Wednesday with his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma by telephone bilateral cooperation as well as the situation in Ukraine and the Crimean referendum, Itar Tass ....

  • African elders panel delegation due in Cairo Sunday

    Date: 2014-04-02 16:11:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:131 - ID:645900

    CAIRO, April 2 (MENA) - A delegation of the African Elders panel, led by former Malian president Alpha Oumar Konare, is due to arrive here on Sunday on a three-day visit to Egypt, a well-placed source at the African Union Commission's diplomatic ....

  • AL calls for urgent relief aid to Somalia

    Date: 2014-04-02 10:59:36 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:52 - ID:644942

    CAIRO, April 2 (MENA) - Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi called on Arab and international relief aid organizations, the Red Crescent and civil society organizations to swiftly interfere and offer urgent humanitarian aid to Somalia in ....

  • 4th EU-Africa summit discusses ending fighting in CAR

    Date: 2014-04-02 09:53:18 GMT - Belgium - Africa - SN:40 - ID:644734

    BRUSSELS, April 2 (MENA) - The 4th European Union-Africa Summit, that takes place in Brussels on 2-3 April 2014, will discuss means of halting ongoing fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR) as 50 people were killed in clashes over the past ....

  • Radical Muslim leader shot dead in Kenya

    Date: 2014-04-01 22:49:53 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:186 - ID:644263

    NAIROBI, April 1 (MENA) - A radical Islamic leader who had been sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations for supporting an al-Qaeda-linked Somali militant group was assassinated late Tuesday, his lawyer and officials said. Attorney ....

  • MISCA deplores use of civilians as human shields in CAR

    Date: 2014-04-01 22:15:38 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:178 - ID:644244

    ADDIS ABABA, April 1 (MENA) - The Commander of the African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA) has deplored the use of civilians as human shields in the most recent eruption of violence in the Central African ....

  • Sudan supports nomination of Egypt for ICU deputy chief post

    Date: 2014-03-31 22:27:35 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:187 - ID:642185

    KHARTOUM, March 31 (MENA) - Sudan has announced support to the nomination of Egypt's Amr Badawi for the post of the deputy chairman of the International Communications Union (ICU), SUNA News Agency reported. This came during a meeting between ....

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