[Egypt Online]The Health Ministry announced on Tuesday 11/3/2014 decline in rate of infection and death of swine flu virus, known as H1N1, in the past few weeks....

[Egypt Online]An improvised explosive device went off over al-Gamaa Bridge in Giza on Tuesday 11/3/2014, causing no casualties....

[Egypt Online]President Adly Mansour issued on Saturday 08/03/2014 a decree to ratify a law regulating the presidential elections....

[SPS]Geneva -The UN refugee agency announced Thursday that the visit flights programme of Saharawi families living in refugee camps and their relatives in the occupied Western Sahara under the Confidence Building Measures programme will be resumed next April 17th....

[Cameroon Tribune]With a projected GDP of between $384 billion and $424 billion, the country is set to outclass South Africa....

[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed (refugee Camps) -President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz hailed Tuesday Algeria's continuous support to the Saharawi cause....

[SPS]Chahid El Hafed (refugee Camps) -Moroccan army forces has fired lived bullets on herds of Saharawi camels, as a blatant breach to the ceasefire agreed upon by the Polisario Front and Morocco in 1991, said AFAPREDESA....

[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed (refugee Camps) -President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente Polisario Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz called yesterday, Tuesday, on the United Nations (UN) to exert pressure on Morocco to comply with international legitimacy and thus allows self-determination referendum to take place in Western Sahara....

[Premium Times]Defence minister, Aliyu Gusau, has denied widespread reports of his resignation Wednesday, in what has deflated concerns about the implication of such an exit on the Nigerian government's effort to curtail a bloody rampage by the extremist Boko Haram sect....

Sudan's government and rebels in war-torn Blue Nile and South Kordofan states have until 30 April to reach a peace deal, the AU says....

When $20bn (£12bn) goes missing, it is no minor matter. Yet when Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria?s top banker, accused the national oil company of large-scale embezzlement that was startling even in an oil industry as opaque as Nigeria?s, he soon found himself paying for his indiscretion. President Goodluck Jonathan, whose leadership has been dogged by one corruption scandal after another since he took power in 2010, promptly levelled counter charges of ?financial recklessness and misconduct? against the whistleblower, an internationally respected fiscal hawk who for nearly five years has headed the country?s Central Bank, and ordered his suspension. More surprising, however, was the circulation of a...

[Magharebia]Tunis -In his first televised appearance since taking office, Mehdi Jomaa last week said that the government was facing a grim financial situation that required sacrifices....

[UN Women]New York -Intel She Will Connect to reduce the gender gap, beginning with Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa...

[Magharebia]Mauritania's first religious cable channel aims to counter extremist rhetoric by broadcasting a message of moderation and tolerance....

[Magharebia]Essam Mohamed in Tripoli contributed to this report for Magharebia...

(Source: ANHRI - Arabic Network for Human Rights Information) Today, the Association for Freedom of Though and Expression (AFTE) and the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) expressed alarm on the ruling delivered yesterday, March 11, by Beba Misdemeanor Court, in Beni Suef. The court upheld the verdict returned, on 13 June, 2013, against Egyptian author and human rights activist Karam Saber- Head of Land Center for Human Rights (LCHR)- in addition to bail of EGP1000; against the backdrop of the contempt of religion charge and...

Una settimana di incontri al Parlamento Europeo sul tema della cattività di balene, orche e delfini. Esperti di mammiferi marini dimostreranno, con evidenze scientifiche, la situazione degli animali nei delfinari europei e chiederanno ai cittadini europei, agli europarlamentari e ai governi degli Stati membri di mettere fine alle 'prigioni d'acqua'.

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US has reaffirmed its support to Libya in the aftermath of Tuesday's ouster of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan by the African nation's parliament via a vote of no confidence.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan army units tasked with lifting the blockade on oil terminals by armed militias in the eastern part of Libya late on Tuesday took control of the airport in Sirte, 450km from East of the capital city of Tripoli and the "Gardhabia" military base.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Sudanese security forces must immediately stop the use of excessive and unlawful force against protesters, Amnesty International said after a student died of gunshot wounds sustained during a demonstration at the University of Khartoum Tuesday.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The ouster of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan by the Libyan General National Congress (GNC), amid the scandal involving the illegal sale of the country's oil by militia groups, was generally welcomed by Libyans.
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New York, US (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Somalia, Mr. Nicholas Kay, says the best hope for peace and stability in the country, the Horn of Africa and beyond remains a united, secure and federal Somalia.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) ? Sudan on Wednesday called on the US Administration to reverse its position regarding the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), which calls for an alternative forum for peace in Darfur.
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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita Wednesday ended his three-day working visit to Guinea, where he signed, with host President Alpha Condé, several cooperation pacts on energy, agriculture and transport, among others.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar Bashir on Wednesday left Khartoum for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the head of his country?s delegation to the Inter-Governmental Development Authority (IGAD) summit meeting scheduled for Thursday.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? The Mauritanian government has opened consultations with the radical opposition group for a free and fair presidential election due for this year, official sources told PANA on Wednesday.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Nouri Abushamein, President of Libya's General National Congress (CGN-Parliament), the country's highest legislative and political authority, said Wednesday he has given armed separatist groups two weeks to lift their blockade of oil ports.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia and Kenya have resolved to deploy troops to a proposed stabilisation mission to enforce a ceasefire deal signed by warring South Sudanese parties.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's acting Prime Minister Abdallah Al-Theni has pleaded for an extra budget to allow the interim government to carry out its mission.
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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The following are the results of match day 21 in Tunisia's 1st division football league played on Wednesday:
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