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1/8/2022 1:25:45 PM
Ethiopia’s government on Friday announced an amnesty for some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and senior Tigray party officials, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke of reconciliation for Orthodox Christmas.
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1/7/2022 9:37:42 PM
Ethiopia's government on Friday announced an amnesty for some of the country's most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and senior Tigray party officials, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke of reconciliation for Orthodox Christmas.
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Africa
1/7/2022 6:34:22 PM
Thirteen civilians have been killed in separate attacks in northern Burkina Faso, a region battling a six-year-old jihadist insurgency, local sources said on Friday.
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1/3/2022 10:40:53 PM
The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group verbally attacked the king of Saudi Arabia on Monday, saying Riyadh helped spread "extremist Islamic ideology" worldwide and is taking the thousands of Lebanese who work in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region "hostage.''
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1/3/2022 4:30:12 PM
Serbia's president on Monday praised another shipment of arms from Russia despite fears in the Balkans that the country's recent military buildup could lead to more tensions in the war-scarred European region.
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Africa
1/3/2022 11:13:32 AM
Six people have been killed and homes torched in a grisly attack Monday by suspected Al-Shabaab militants in a Kenyan coastal region bordering Somalia, police and government officials said.
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Egypt
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Politics
1/2/2022 8:40:33 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has stressed Egypt’s support for the role of the United Nations in the face of regional and international threats posed by crime, illicit drugs and terrorism.
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Region
1/2/2022 5:41:54 PM
Authorities in several Gulf countries renewed weather warnings on Sunday as several days of heavy rains batter the usually arid region.
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International
1/1/2022 12:23:47 PM
The euro on Saturday marks 20 years since people began to use the single European currency, overcoming initial doubts, price concerns and a debt crisis to spread across the region.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/31/2021 6:43:00 PM
After years of turmoil and transition, can the Arab region recover its footing?
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Africa
12/31/2021 4:10:41 PM
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in a war that erupted in November 2020 between Ethiopian forces and fighters from the country's Tigray region, who dominated the national government before Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018.
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Africa
12/30/2021 10:12:19 PM
Ethiopian lawmakers have approved a bill to establish a commission for national dialogue, amid international pressure for negotiations to end the 13-month conflict in the Tigray region.
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Region
12/30/2021 10:35:28 AM
Saudi Arabia's King Salman urged arch-rival Iran on Thursday to end its "negative behaviour" in the region, after Riyadh accused Tehran of aiding Yemeni rebels in launching deadly attacks on his country.
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12/29/2021 11:12:09 PM
Sudanese gunmen have looted a World Food Programme warehouse containing about 1,900 tonnes of food aid in Darfur amid a surge of violence in the western region, officials said Wednesday.
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12/29/2021 9:37:32 PM
A shipment of fake oranges hid millions of Captagon pills intercepted by Lebanese authorities, the interior minister said Wednesday, in the latest regional seizure of the stimulant drug.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/29/2021 2:40:37 PM
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Rwandan counterpart Vincent Biruta tackled means of boosting bilateral cooperation as well as regional and international issues of mutual concern in a meeting in the Rwandan capital on Wednesday.
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Africa
12/29/2021 12:14:27 PM
Rebels from Ethiopia's Tigray region are drawing on early Islamic history in an Arabic-language propaganda push to rally solidarity among Muslims online for their battle against the government.
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International
12/28/2021 11:10:53 PM
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a US Navy aircraft carrier strike group to stay in the Mediterranean Sea region rather than move on to the Middle East, amid worries about the buildup of thousands of Russian troops near the Ukraine border.
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World
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International
12/28/2021 10:59:53 PM
More than 28 tonnes of humanitarian aid from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner were delivered to the temporarily occupied territory through the entry-exit checkpoint “Shchastia”, Ukrinform reported.
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World
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Africa
12/28/2021 9:07:13 PM
President Joe Biden formally announced Tuesday he will lift a ban this week on travel from South Africa and other countries in the region, imposed due to fear of the Omicron Covid-19 variant.
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