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Sudan to open 14 border crossings with neighboring countries in 2014
Date: 2013-12-27 17:03:06 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:99 - ID:465061
KHARTOUM, Dec 27 (MENA) – Sudanese Transport, Roads and Bridges Ministry has said it will inaugurate 14 border crossings with neighboring countries in 2014. In a press release on Friday, head of road transport department at the ministry Abdelilah ....
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Boko Haram claims resposibility for military base attack
Date: 2013-12-27 17:01:42 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:98 - ID:464931
ABUJA, Dec. 27 (MENA) – Rebel group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on a military barracks in the village of Bama in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, which left 15 soldiers and 50 fighters dead. “This is a victory ....
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Sudan starts evacuating nationals from S. Sudan
Date: 2013-12-27 16:28:28 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:87 - ID:464960
KHARTOUM, Dec 27 (MENA) - The Sudanese government stared on Friday evacuating its citizens and some nationals of the IGAD states from South Sudan on UNICEF airplanes. Five flights were operated over the day to evacuate people from South Sudan's ....
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Egypt envoy meets Salva Kiir
Date: 2013-12-27 16:05:45 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:88 - ID:464898
CAIRO, Dec. 27 (MENA) – spokesman for the foreign ministry Badr Abdel-Aati said that South Sudan President Salva Kiir received Friday the Egyptian envoy, Hamdi Louza, who leads a high-profile diplomatic delegation to the world's newest ....
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Abducted Lebanese businessman freed in Nigeria
Date: 2013-12-27 15:21:41 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:81 - ID:464875
ABUJA, Dec 27 (MENA) - A Nigerian security official said Friday that police have found Lebanese businessman Hassan Zein, who was kidnapped by gunmen earlier this week. Zein was found unharmed on the outskirts of the northern Nigerian capital city ....
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S Sudan government 'committed to ceasefire'
Date: 2013-12-27 14:42:22 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:74 - ID:464838
NAIROBI, Dec 27 (MENA) - Leaders of South Sudan's neighbors have said President Salva Kiir is committed to an immediate ceasefire as they urged rebel leader Riek Machar to make the same commitment, Al-Jazeera reported Friday. A statement issued ....
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11 people killed in Mogadishu blast
Date: 2013-12-27 14:27:04 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:72 - ID:464592
MOGADISHU, Dec 27 (MENA) - At least 11 people, including several soldiers, have been killed by a remote-controlled bomb in a restaurant in the Somali capital, the BBC reported Friday. The restaurant is near a military base, where salaries had ....
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Machar forces capture oil wells in S. Sudan's Unity state
Date: 2013-12-27 12:54:05 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:54 - ID:464431
KHARTOUM, Dec 27 (MENA) - Rebel forces loyal to South Sudan's former vice president Riek Machar have captured most of the oil wells in Unity State, the South Sudan News Agency reported Friday. The Minister of Petroleum, Stephen Dhieu Dau, ....
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Sisi orders humanitarian aid to S. Sudan
Date: 2013-12-27 11:10:02 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:33 - ID:464183
CAIRO, Dec 27 (MENA) – Deputy Prime Minister, Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief and Defense Minister General Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi ordered dispatching a military jet to fly urgent humanitarian aid to South Sudan. The C-130 jet left at dawn from a ....
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UN: 120,000 people displaced by S. Sudan violence
Date: 2013-12-27 09:56:21 GMT - South Sudan - Africa - SN:26 - ID:464007
NEW YORK, Dec 27 (MENA) - The United Nations said more than 120,000 people have been displaced by continuing violence in South Sudan, and about half are now sheltering at UN compounds, ABC News reported. The number of internally displaced people ....
