ar
en
fr
Africa
- Service : English General
- Category : Africa
-
AU chief condoles with Burundi over flood tragedy
Date: 2014-02-12 22:22:28 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:180 - ID:552491
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 12 (MENA) - African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has condoled with Burundi a flood disaster that left 60 dead and over 80 wounded, in addition to destroying houses and rendering 10,000 homeless, the ....
-
Nigeria’s Boko Haram kill 51 in northeast attack
Date: 2014-02-12 19:20:16 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:147 - ID:552283
ABUJA, Feb 12 (MENA) - Gunmen from Boko Haram killed 51 people in an attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said on Wednesday. The attack came in a region where President Goodluck Jonathan’s troops are struggling to contain its ....
-
Egypt mufti condemns Muslim genocide in Central Africa
Date: 2014-02-12 16:02:46 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:124 - ID:551941
CAIRO, Feb 12 (MENA) - Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Allam has strongly condemned the Muslim genocide by extremist militias in Central Africa. In a statement Wednesday, Allam urged the government and officials in Central Africa to swiftly intervene ....
-
Cabinet reviews report on talks in Addis Ababa regarding Ethiopian dam
Date: 2014-02-12 14:46:53 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:106 - ID:551769
CAIRO, Feb 12 (MENA) – The Cabinet on Wednesday reviewed at a meeting under Prime Minister Hazem el-Biblawy a report by Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Abdel Motaleb about the outcome of his recent talks in Addis Ababa regarding ....
-
RWB condemns mounting violence against media personnel in Libya
Date: 2014-02-12 13:51:00 GMT - Libya - Africa - SN:100 - ID:551459
TRIPOLI, Feb 12 (MENA) - The international press freedom body, Reporters Without Borders, condemned the steadily mounting violence against media personnel in Libya, including the abduction of four journalists in two separate incidents in the ....
-
New govt formed in Mauritania
Date: 2014-02-12 12:40:05 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:79 - ID:551461
NOUAKCHOTT, Feb 12 (MENA) - A presidential decree, published by the state-owned Mauritanian TV, announced the names of the new cabinet ministers, under Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf. The Mauritanian government routinely resigns ....
-
Cairo University comes first at African level, according to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
Date: 2014-02-12 12:12:33 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:73 - ID:551308
CAIRO, Feb 12 (MENA) – Cairo University came in the first rank on the list of African universities, according to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of World Universities. Cairo University, according to the ....
-
Egypt, Mauritania to cooperate in Cinema domain
Date: 2014-02-12 07:35:17 GMT - Mauritania - Africa - SN:21 - ID:550609
NOUAKCHOTT, Feb 12 (MENA) - Egypt and Mauritania signed a cooperation protocol that would grant trainings by Egyptian professors to young Mauritanians working in the cinema domain. The protocol, signed on Tuesday between the Egypt Cinema ....
-
No option for a win-win solution but dialogue - Ethiopia PM
Date: 2014-02-11 22:50:35 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:197 - ID:550511
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 11 (MENA) – Egypt and Ethiopia have no other option on solving the crisis of the Renaissance Dam but negotiations to bring about mutual benefit for the two countries, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said ....
-
Sudan supports peace efforts in the South through IGAD - Bashir's assistant
Date: 2014-02-11 11:19:29 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:64 - ID:549012
KHARTOUM, Feb 11 (MENA) - Sudanese President's Assistant Ibrahim Ghandour said that his country would remain supportive to peace efforts and stability in South Sudan through the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Ghandour ....
