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No survivors after Russian Airliner Crashes in Sinai With 224 on Board. Report Says the Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, was en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. The AP news agency is reporting Egyptian officials have confirmed no survivors.

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31.Oct.2015

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On the occasion of the 55th anniversary celebration of the National Armed Forces Day, the President of the Burkina Faso transitional council, Michel Kafando has ordered the creation of six military camps-the first in honour and loving memory of the late President Thomas Sankara, former President of the National Revolutionary Council of Burkina Faso (CNR) murdered on October 15, 1987, during the coup that brought to power the disgraced Blaise Compaore.

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30.Oct.2015

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Royal Dutch Shell's (RDSa.L) Leopard Marin discovery offshore Gabon may be a new commercial gas field, a senior company executive said on Thursday. "Leopard is the first potentially commercial multi-TCF (trillion cubic feet) find in a new gas play and I think that is very exciting for us and for the government of Gabon,” Alastair Milne, Shell's vice president exploration for Sub-Saharan Africa, told an industry conference in Cape Town.

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29.Oct.2015

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Seven gunmen have been killed in clashes with security forces in eastern Burundi amid unbridled violence in the Central African country, which has prompted a UN warning about resurgent war. “There were clashes in the town of Nyarusange between security forces and an armed group [on Tuesday]... Seven of these men were killed,” Venant Manirambona, the governor for Gitega Province, where the town is located, said on Wednesday. Over Monday and Tuesday, at least three people, including a policeman, were also killed during confrontations in the capital, Bujumbura, with the government blaming “criminal gangs” for the fatalities.

Burundi plunged into turmoil back in April, when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid to compete for a third presidential term. The decision was denounced by the opposition, which argued the move was contrary to the constitution, which only allows two successive presidential terms. Some 200 people have been killed ever since, with the violence spiraling after the head of state won an outright victory in presidential elections in July. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein cautioned last month that the country risks sliding back into civil war. Fought along ethnic lines, a civil war killed around 300,000 people in Burundi between 1993 and 2005.

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28.Oct.2015

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Three people have been killed and several others wounded after a female bomber blew herself up in Nigeria’s violence-plagued northeastern state of Borno. The bomb blast occurred in the Dala Yazaram area of Maiduguri City, located approximately 870 kilometers (540 miles) north of the capital, Abuja, on Saturday when a female assailant detonated her explosives, witnesses said. Another woman was caught right before she could discharge the explosive device, a local resident said. "Three people have been killed and many injured.

One of the terrorists was arrested before she could detonate," said resident Shuaibu Umara, a security guard at a nearby Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) petrol station. A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), however, said that the blast killed a member of a vigilante group, which assists the military in fighting the militant group, and injured 10 others. "Four female suicide bombers at about 7:45 am today in the morning attempted to enter a Dala Ajeri area of Maiduguri but were intercepted by the civilian JTF (Joint Task Force)," Sani Datti said in a statement.

"Three of the female suicide bombers detonated the explosions in their bodies immediately and the fourth one was intercepted but later died," he added. The official noted that six of the injured had been discharged from the hospital. The incident happened a day after at least 55 people were killed and more than 100 others injured in two terrorist attacks on mosques in Maiduguri and nearby Yola, capital of Adamawa state.

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25.Oct.2015

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Disgraced former Secretary General at the presidency of the Republic, Marafa Hamidou Yaya was rushed to the CNPS hospital in Yaoundé late on Thursday, October 22, 2015. Our Yaounde city reporter hinted that Minister Marafa shared the same hospital ward with the former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Essimi Menye for thirty minutes but both men did not exchange words. Marafa was later escorted back to his prison cell after medics attended to him.

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23.Oct.2015

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