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Kiir sacks army chief after rebels seize oil hub
Date: 2014-04-24 06:06:51 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:4 - ID:684799
JUBA, April 24 (MENA) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir sacked his army chief on Wednesday after rebels seized a major oil hub, the BBC reported. Rebels loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar seized the oil hub of Bentiu last week. The ....
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Mansour receives phone call from South African president
Date: 2014-04-23 22:02:04 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:182 - ID:684747
CAIRO, April 23 (MENA) – Interim President Adly Mansour received a phone call Wednesday from South African President Jacob Zuma, Foreign Ministry said. The two leaders discussed issues of mutual interests, the ministry added in a statement. ....
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Cultural minister meets S. Sudanese counterpart
Date: 2014-04-23 18:07:13 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:154 - ID:684461
CAIRO, April 23 (MENA) – Egypt's Minister of Culture Mohamed Saber Arab held a meeting Wednesday with his South Sudanese counterpart Nadia Arop Dudi and the South Sudanese ambassador in Cairo. The meeting took up cooperation with the newly ....
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Antiquities min. hails JICA training courses provided to archeologists
Date: 2014-04-23 16:59:44 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:142 - ID:684280
CAIRO, April 23 (MENA) – Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim praised Wednesday the training courses provided by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to Egyptian archeologists and restoration specialists. The minister made the remarks ....
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Parliament questions FM over Bentiu massacre
Date: 2014-04-23 08:43:49 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:29 - ID:683004
KHARTOUM, April 23 (MENA) - The Sudanese parliament summoned on Wednesday Foreign Minister Ali Kerti to question him over the massacre in South Sudanese city of Bentiu that left many Sudanese nationals dead. MP Mohamed Hamad al-Azreq told Al-Rai ....
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Obasanjo leads peace mision to S. Sudan
Date: 2014-04-23 06:49:08 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:8 - ID:682774
ABUJA, April 23 (MENA) - An African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan led by former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo started a 10-day mission to the country amidst renewed violence in parts of the country’s oil rich regions, The Punch ....
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Stability prevails on Sudan-Chad borders
Date: 2014-04-22 20:52:45 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:150 - ID:682572
KHARTOUM, April 22 (MENA) - Stability prevails on the Sudanese-Chadian borders, Commander of the Sudanese-Chadian Joint Forces General Tuva Issa has said. The peoples of both countries have many common interests, Issa added. (MENA) MHK/AI ....
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Mahlab on African tour as of Friday
Date: 2014-04-22 18:05:47 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:129 - ID:682270
CAIRO, April 22 (MENA) – Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab will kick off an African trip Friday that will take him to Tanzania, Chad and Equatorial Guinea. During his visit to Tanzania, Mahlab will talk bilateral relations with senior officials in ....
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Ethiopian FM says Ethiopia has gone beyond “call of duty” in equitable use of Nile waters
Date: 2014-04-22 15:16:17 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:91 - ID:682045
ADDIS ABABA, April 22 (MENA) – Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom said his country has repeatedly gone above and beyond “the call of duty” in trying to assuage Egyptian concerns and to reach over a more equitable allocation of the use of the ....
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UNICEF voices worry over children's deaths in South Sudan
Date: 2014-04-22 15:10:24 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:89 - ID:681831
GENEVA, April 22 (MENA) – UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulieroc said more than 740,000 children under the age of five in South Sudan are at high risk of not getting enough to eat. Over 50,000 severely malnourished children could die by the end ....
