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20 nations issue travel warnings against Nigeria
Date: 2014-04-20 06:22:03 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:8 - ID:677602
ABUJA, April 20 (MENA) - Nigeria's failing security situation is causing a global sense of frustration and there is fear of possible isolation, judging from western nations’ responses to the increasing wave of terror attacks in the country, ....
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Boko Haram leader claims Nigeria bombing
Date: 2014-04-19 14:16:04 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:68 - ID:676933
ABUJA, April 19 (MENA) - Boko Haram Islamist leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for a bombing in the Nigerian capital Abuja in which at least 75 people were killed. The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists Abubakar Shekau has ....
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UNSC condemns attacks on UN mission in S.Sudan
Date: 2014-04-18 21:26:32 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:122 - ID:675773
NEW YORK, April 18 (MENA) - The United Nations Security Council expressed anger over recent attacks by armed groups in South Sudan that targeted civilians as well as a UN peacekeeping base, killing 58 people and wounding about 100 others. In a ....
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Nigerian army denies freeing kidnapped girls
Date: 2014-04-18 18:48:32 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:104 - ID:675617
ABUJA, April 18 (MENA) – The Nigerian Army has withdrew an earlier statement that it had freed most of kidnapped girls. The Armed Forces said Wednesday that the military had rescued all but eight of the schoolgirls abducted by rebels suspected to ....
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Burundi expels UN official over arms report
Date: 2014-04-18 08:05:55 GMT - Burundi - Africa - SN:16 - ID:674578
BUJUMBURA, April 18 (MENA) - Burundi's foreign ministry has said it ordered a top United Nations official out of the country after a report claimed the government was arming young supporters ahead of elections, Al-Jazeera News reported. Paul ....
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Egypt condemns Abuja terror blasts
Date: 2014-04-18 07:02:10 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:8 - ID:674466
ABUJA, April 18 (MENA) - Egypt's embassy here condemned the bombings that targeted buses in Nigeria killing and injuring scores of people. The embassy said in a statement on Thursday that Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel-Aati ....
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Ethiopia, S. Sudan discuss Renaissance Dam
Date: 2014-04-17 22:51:41 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:176 - ID:674330
ADDIS ABABA, April 17 (MENA) – Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said Thursday that his talks with South Sudan President Salva Kiir tackled the Renaissance Dam. Desalegn was quoted by the Ethiopian news agency as saying that he ....
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AU Commission briefs Peace, Security Council on Egypt's presidential polls
Date: 2014-04-17 19:49:54 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:155 - ID:674204
ADDIS ABABA, April 17 (MENA) – The African Union Commission said that it briefed the AU's Peace and Security Council, at its 429th meeting, on the upcoming Egyptian presidential elections. The council reviewed its communiqué on the situation in ....
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UN chief condemns attacking civilians in S. Sudan
Date: 2014-04-17 17:30:23 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:133 - ID:674011
NEW YORK, April 17 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon strongly condemned Thursday the attack on civilians and United Nations peacekeepers in the UNMISS Protection of Civilians site in Bor, capital of Jonglei State in South Sudan, the UN ....
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President greets Zimbabwe on National day
Date: 2014-04-17 13:59:33 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:93 - ID:673580
CAIRO, April 17 (MENA) - Interim President Adly Mansour delegated Thursday presidential secretary Ahmed el-Ansary to visit the embassy of Zimbabwe to convey his greetings on the Independence Day. Zimbabweans commemorate their attainment of ....
