April, 2015

• 3 April

  Saudis airdrop arms to Aden defenders

  Houthi forces pulled back from a central Aden district on Friday and aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition dropped weapons and medical aid to fighters defending the southern Yemeni city, a last symbolic foothold of the country’s absent president. The Shi’ite Houthi fighters and their allies withdrew from Crater neighbourhood as …

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• 3 April

  Kenya University Massacre Toll Rises to 148

  The number killed in Kenya’s university massacre rose to 148 people, Kenya’s interior minister said Friday as he declared operations to recover bodies over. The final toll from yesterday’s carnage in the college in the northeastern town of Garissa included 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers, Interior Minister …

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• 3 April

  Merkel, Yatseniuk discuss Minsk agreements

  Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, who is currently on a working visit to Berlin, plans to discuss the implementation of the Minsk agreements among other issues during his planned talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Speaking to German journalists, Yatseniuk said also that Merkel and he would also address economic …

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• 3 April

  Tunisian security forces arrest 23 new suspects for Bardo Museum attack

  Twenty three new presumed accomplices have been arrested since the terrorist attack against the Bardo Museum, bringing the number of suspects arrested in this attack to 64 individuals. These arrests followed the dismantling of two terrorist cells whose most of its members had taken part in the Bardo attack, whether …

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• 3 April

  Turkey, Pakistan pledge to support Saudi over Yemen crisis

  Turkey and Pakistan have called on “all Yemeni groups” for a peaceful solution to the country’s crisis, while pledging support for Saudi Arabia’s actions, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on April 3. Turkey and Pakistan agreed to lend “all potential support” to Saudi Arabia in order to defend the …

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• 3 April

  Houthis seize central Aden district in Yemen

  Yemeni Houthi fighters and their allies seized a central Aden district on April 2, striking a heavy blow against the Saudi-led coalition that has waged a week of air strikes to try to stem advances by the Iran-allied Shi’ite group. Hours after the Houthis took over Aden’s central Crater neighbourhood, …

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• 3 April

  Hollande invites Nigeria's President-elect to Paris

  French President Francois Hollande spoke by phone with President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday and invited him to Paris for discussions on expansion of trade between France and Nigeria. A statement by the French Embassy in Abuja, said the French leader congratulated Buhari on his success and noted the generally smooth …

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• 2 April

  India condemns attack in Kenyan university campus

  India on Thursday strongly condemned the “barbaric terrorist attack” on a university campus in northeastern Kenya in which 70 people were killed and said the international community needs to further strengthen its fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

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• 2 April

  Algeria, Niger discuss bilateral relations

  Algeria-Niger relations have been the focus of a meeting in Niamey between Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry Abdelhamid Senouci Bereksi and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, African Integration and Nigeriens Abroad, Aichatou Kane, said Thursday the Foreign Ministry in a statement.

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• 2 April

  Kerry congratulates Nigeria on elections, calls for peace

  US Secretary of State John Kerry offered his congratulations to the new Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari on Wednesday, and called on citizens of that country to “reject violence” as they move toward what he called “a new standard for this democracy.” In his statement, Kerry affirmed that “Nigeria is an …

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