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C. Africa army head came to Russia for training: minister

Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)

Russia's influence in CAR has been growing since 2017, when the UN-backed government there called for help to fight militias rampaging through the country. Mosc...

Burkina army chief sacked as jihadist attacks continue

Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)

Major General Oumarou Sadou was replaced by General Moise Minoungou, according to a presidential decree read on public television. For three years Burkina Faso ...

Ugandan officers charged with abducting Rwanda refugees

Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)

The men, among them a military colonel and seven police officers, are suspected of involvement in forcibly handing over former security officer Joel Mutabazi an...

US conducts series of strikes in Somalia

Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)

The strikes come as part of an ongoing mission in which US forces are working with African Union and Somali national security forces to fight the Shabaab moveme...

Gabon says coup bid thwarted as president abroad

Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)

Soldiers burst into state radio offices at dawn and called on the public to "rise up" after President Ali Bongo suffered a stroke last year while out of the cou...

Gabon foils coup attempt, with ailing president out of country

Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)

Renegade soldiers burst into RTG state radio broadcasting offices in the capital Libreville at dawn and urged the public to "rise up", in an appeal made as Pres...

Somalia refuses to take back expelled UN envoy

Jan 05, 2019 (AFP)

Guterres spoke by phone with President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Friday -- his second call to the Somali leader in three days -- to once again urge him to ch...

China dismisses Africa debt fears at start of FM tour

Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)

China has funnelled cash and loans into infrastructure projects across the continent, where many African leaders consider Beijing's terms a better deal that tha...

CAR rebels buy weapons from Sudan traffickers: UN report

Jan 02, 2019 (AFP)

The panel tasked with monitoring sanctions on the Central African Republic said in a report that leaders of the former Seleka alliance were re-arming to counter...

Jimmy Carter says US, China should partner in Africa

Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)

Marking the 40th anniversary of his January 1979 normalization of relations with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, Carter voiced concern that both countries were in...

S.Leone ex-defence minister released amid arrests

Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)

"Dozens of people were arrested during the protest for disorderly conduct at the headquarters of the opposition APC party on Monday", police said. "Police fired...

Zambia's president fires army chiefs

Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)

He did not give reasons for removing Lieutenant-General Paul Mihova but cautioned his successor, William Sikazwe, not to abuse the authority of the office and t...

Former S.Leone defense minister arrested for alleged graft

Dec 29, 2018 (AFP)

Alfred Paolo Conteh was detained along with Sannah Marrah, the defence ministry's former director general, at the Criminal Investigation Department on Friday. B...

Qatar sends 24 armoured vehicles to Mali

Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)

Qatari General al-Ghaffari said the vehicles would be used by the Malian army operating in areas with mines and improvised explosives. "There will now be perman...

Suspected killers of Nigeria ex-defence chief arrested: police

Dec 27, 2018 (AFP)

Retired air chief marshall Alex Badeh was shot dead last week by unknown gunmen on a road outside Abuja, the nation's capital. He was returning from his farm wh...

France drops probe into attack that sparked Rwanda genocide

Dec 26, 2018 (AFP)

Juvenal Habyarimana, Rwanda's president at the time, was killed when his plane was shot down in April 1994, triggering 100 days of bloodshed that left an estima...

Elite force formed in Ethiopia to protect leaders

Dec 24, 2018 (AFP)

Troops in the new Republican Guard unit began training six months ago for "protecting higher government officials and their family, from any form of aggression ...

British Space Tech Transforms Education For 34,000 Students In Africa

Dec 24, 2018 (SPX)

Due to poor internet coverage, teachers in remote schools previously had to travel long distances to access educational material. Some schools have already repo...

Macron takes champagne and fois gras to French soldiers in Chad

Dec 22, 2018 (AFP)

Macron landed at Kossei air base near N'Djamena, the nerve centre of Operation Barkhane, a four-year campaign led by France against Islamic jihadists in Burkina...

Six killed by landmine in central Mali: local officials

Dec 19, 2018 (AFP)

The road they were travelling on is regularly the scene of explosions by improvised bombs blamed on jihadists. Last month three Mali soldiers were killed in a s...