Africa

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  • Egypt to host15th AMCEN session

    Date: 2014-03-20 12:57:34 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:70 - ID:620198

    CAIRO, March 20 (MENA) – Executive Director of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) Amr Al-Sammak held an expanded meeting to prepare for a new session (2014-2016) of The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), due to ....

  • UK urges Sudan to create right environment for national dialogue

    Date: 2014-03-20 07:45:24 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:24 - ID:619908

    KHARTOUM, March 20 (MENA) - British Ambassador in Khartoum Peter Tibber said the success of the comprehensive national dialogue initiative launched by Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir earlier this year is contingent on creating an ....

  • Ethiopia's dam director to MENA: Egyptian-Ethiopian relations deeply-rooted

    Date: 2014-03-20 06:29:52 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:10 - ID:619811

    ADDIS ABABA, March 20 (MENA) - Director of Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam project Semegnew Bekele stressed on Thursday that the under-construction project will not harm Egypt's interests. In an interview with MENA, Bekele described the ....

  • Kenya to approve Nile framework agreement

    Date: 2014-03-20 05:25:07 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:6 - ID:619802

    AADDIS ABABA, March 20 (MENA) - Kenyan parliament plans to ratify the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) within the coming three weeks, Spokesman for the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry Dina Mufti. Kenya will be the third country to ....

  • UN Security Council slams deadly terrorist attack on Somali hotel

    Date: 2014-03-20 04:32:29 GMT - United Nations - Africa - SN:2 - ID:619784

    NEW YORK, March 20 (MENA) - The UN Security Council on Wednesday "condemned in the strongest terms" a deadly terrorist attack on a hotel in central Somalia, saying that "any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable regardless of their ....

  • Abdel Nour: Several countries now understand current situation in Egypt and support road map

    Date: 2014-03-19 14:11:44 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:95 - ID:618638

    KHARTOUM, March 19 (MENA) – Egyptian Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment Munir Fakhry Abdel Nour on Wednesday asserted that his ministry is promoting for investment in Egypt in all world countries. In statements to MENA on the sidelines of ....

  • Security Council urges Sudan, S. Sudan to withdraw troops from Abye

    Date: 2014-03-19 07:41:46 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:18 - ID:617752

    KHARTOUM, March 19 (MENA) - The UN Security Council (UNSC) has demanded that South Sudan and Sudan immediately withdraw their troops from Abyei, saying it has grave concerns over the volatile security and humanitarian situation in the contested ....

  • Al Shabaab militants' acts contradict with Islam - AMISOM

    Date: 2014-03-18 22:53:55 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:182 - ID:617604

    ADDIS ABABA, March 18 (MENA) – The ongoing offensive by AMISOM together with the Somali National Army (SNA) against the al Shabaab has exposed the insurgents as engaging in practices contrary to Islam, the religion which they claim to fight for, ....

  • Ethiopia needs more investment from UAE -- minister

    Date: 2014-03-18 22:09:26 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:179 - ID:617571

    ADDIS ABABA, March 18 (MENA) - Ethiopian Industry Minister Ahmed Abitew has stressed that Ethiopia needs more investment from the United Arab Emirates, Walta Information Center has reported. The minister made his remarks during the Ethiopian-UAE ....

  • Booby-trapped car hit AMISOM convoy

    Date: 2014-03-18 11:53:56 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:68 - ID:616105

    MOGADISHU, March 18 (MENA) – A booby-trapped car targeted on Tuesday a convoy affiliated to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Mogadishu and the Somali Al Shabab group claimed responsibility for the incident. The attack, which took ....

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