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S. Sudan army loses contact with forces in rebel-controlled town
Date: 2014-01-17 13:55:20 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:64 - ID:504234
JUBA, Jan 17 (MENA) - South Sudan's army on Friday announced that it lost contact with its forces fighting in the rebel-controlled town, Malakal, the main town in the northern Upper Nile state, Sky news reported. Malkal, the key oil-town, has ....
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Algeria presidential vote real chance for change: Fox News 3 last Algiers
Date: 2014-01-17 13:20:20 GMT - Algeria - Africa - SN:56 - ID:504223
"Algeria needs today a president who possesses all his mental and physical faculties to deal with the national and regional context," Abderrazzak Mukri, the leader of the Islamist opposition alliance, was quoted as saying. "Those pushing him to are ....
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Algeria presidential vote real chance for change: Fox News 2 Algiers
Date: 2014-01-17 13:17:53 GMT - Algeria - Africa - SN:55 - ID:504208
Since its turn in 1989 to pluralism, a system in which there is more than one center of power, Algeria has been run by the generation that fought in the 1958-1962 war for independence against France. Once the world's youngest foreign minister in the ....
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Algeria presidential vote real chance for chage: Fox News
Date: 2014-01-17 13:12:44 GMT - Algeria - Africa - SN:54 - ID:504030
ALGIERS, Jan. 17 (MENA) - It is seen as one of the most important votes in Algeria's history. But just three months before the North African country's presidential election, no one is sure who is running. The elections could offer a rare chance ....
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Nigeria's president sacks army commanders over security deterioration
Date: 2014-01-16 11:31:17 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:78 - ID:502256
ABUJA, Jan 16 (MENA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan sacked Thursday some of the army commanders over poor security in many areas in the country, especially the ones where Boko Haram militants are active in, , his spokesman Reuben Abati ....
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Egypt to take part in Kaduna trade fair
Date: 2014-01-16 08:34:38 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:36 - ID:501757
ABUJA, Jan 16 (MENA) - Egypt will take part in the Kaduna International Trade Fair to kick off on February 21 with the participation of many international companies, said the head of Kaduna Chamber of Commerce and Mining. He said 19 Nigerian ....
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Death toll of Nigeria blast hits 43
Date: 2014-01-16 08:02:56 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:26 - ID:501679
ABUJA, Jan 16 (MENA) - Death toll from the Tuesday's bomb blast in Maiduguri in Nigeria has risen to 43, local media quoted hospital sources as saying Thursday. The blast hit the city's densely populated commercial area in the Borno State ....
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Sudanese president to head tomorrow to Eritrea on official visit
Date: 2014-01-15 13:53:20 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:110 - ID:500404
KHARTOUM, Jan 15 (MENA) – Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir will head on Thursday to Eritrea with a high level delegation on an official three-day visit upon the invitation of Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki. Al-Bashir, during the visit, is due ....
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Egypt Embassy in Berlin hosts African ceremony in honor of German officials concerned with Africa
Date: 2014-01-15 13:20:09 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:97 - ID:499769
CAIRO, Jan 15 (MENA) - In a bid to boost Egypt-Africa ties, the Egyptian ambassador in Berlin, Mohamed Hegazi, hosted Wednesday a ceremony organized by African ambassadors to Germany in honor of former German officials concerned with the ....
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2 officials arrive in Cairo from Zambia, Libya to follow up referendum
Date: 2014-01-15 11:18:35 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:65 - ID:499709
CAIRO, Jan 15 (MENA) - The head of the African human rights organization in Zambia and the member of the Libyan electoral commission arrived in Cairo Wednesday to follow-up the referendum on the new Egyptian constitution, a Cairo Airport security ....
