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Head of rebels in South Sudan says controlled oil-rich town of Bentiu
Date: 2014-04-12 08:56:57 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:19 - ID:663379
KHARTOUM, April 12 (MENA) - Troops affiliated to the head of the rebels, former vice president of South Sudan, Riek Machar, tightened grip on the oil-rich town of Bentiu. A prominent leadership, close to Machar told Sudan's Al-Intibaha newspaper ....
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UNHCR: Christian militias attack fleeing Central Africans
Date: 2014-04-11 15:14:13 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:81 - ID:662697
NEW YORK, April 11 (MENA) - The UN refugee agency says Christian militias in Central African Republic are attacking people trying to flee the country, forcing them to take more dangerous routes across the border, Fox News reported. UNHCR ....
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Italy rescues 6,000 people crossing Mediterranean in four days
Date: 2014-04-11 14:31:42 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:75 - ID:662676
GENEVA, April 11 (MENA) – The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday the Italian navy had rescued some 6,000 people who had set out from Libya in overcrowded boats over the past four days alone. Those rescued off the shores of Sicily and ....
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Sudan Awqaf minister hails relations with Egypt
Date: 2014-04-11 12:27:25 GMT - Sultanate of Oman - Africa - SN:54 - ID:662320
MUSCAT, April 11 (MENA) – Sudan's Awqaf Minister Mohamed al-Yaqouti hailed on Friday Egyptian-Sudanese relations in all fields. In statement to MENA, Yaqouti said both countries have a strong political will to boost their historic and eternal ....
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Univ. professors call for banning weapons inside campus
Date: 2014-04-11 09:04:40 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:26 - ID:661899
KHARTOUM, April 11 (MENA) - A group of professors at Khartoum University asserted that the campus should be secured and weapons should be banned inside it. In a note they referred to the university's administration, the professors called on the ....
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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” ....
