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Uganda army chief threatens voters who don't choose his father
May 15, 2025 (AFP)
The east African country is due to hold a general election in January, and there has been a mounting crackdown on the opposition in recent months. General Muhoo...
Kinshasa deploys excavators against illegally built homes
May 15, 2025 (AFP)
Flash flooding in the overcrowded megalopolis, which sits on the banks of the mighty Congo River, killed dozens of people early last month. Authorities have beg...
Jihadists kill four Nigerian troops in new base attack: sources
May 13, 2025 (AFP)
Militants from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) stormed the base just before dawn in the Borno state town of Rann, near the border with Cameroon, a mi...
Kenya seeks Dominican help with Haiti anti-gang mission
May 12, 2025 (AFP)
With backing notably from France, Canada and the United States, the UN-approved Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) is meant to help Haiti's overwhelme...
Strike on Sudan's Darfur kills 14 members of one family: rescuers
May 10, 2025 (AFP)
The Abu Shouk camp "was the target of intense bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces on Friday evening", said the group of volunteer aid workers, which also re...
Burkina leader seeks stronger military ties with Russia
May 10, 2025 (AFP)
The head of the African nation's military-dominated government and President Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Kremlin, a day after they attended a Red Squar...
UAE denies supplying Chinese weapons to Sudan paramilitaries
May 09, 2025 (AFP)
"The UAE strongly rejects the suggestion that it is supplying weaponry to any party involved in the ongoing conflict in Sudan," said Salem Aljaberi, the UAE's a...
Amnesty says UAE supplying Sudan paramilitaries with Chinese weapons
May 08, 2025 (AFP)
The Britain-based watchdog said that its research had detailed the use by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of sophisticated Chinese-made artillery and guid...
Jihadists disrupt crucial wood supplies in Niger capital
May 07, 2025 (AFP)
It has left Niamey, a city of nearly two million, struggling to obtain crucial wood supplies from the country's southwestern region, close to Burkina Faso where...
Drone strike on Port Sudan navy base: army source
May 07, 2025 (AFP)
"They (the drones) were met with anti-aircraft missiles," the source said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media. An A...
MSF hospital bombed in South Sudan
May 03, 2025 (AFP)
South Sudan has descended into renewed conflict in recent months due to the collapse of a power-sharing agreement between rival generals, President Salva Kiir a...
Understanding Nigeria's new wave of jihadist attacks
May 02, 2025 (AFP)
The state of Borno in particular, where the Boko Haram jihadist group emerged 16 years ago, remains the epicentre of a conflict that has killed more than 40,000...
Nigeria governors urge army to rethink anti-jihadist strategy
May 01, 2025 (AFP)
The region has seen an upsurge in Islamist militant attacks in recent weeks, reigniting a grinding conflict over the last 16 years that has left more than 40,00...
Paramilitary shelling hits Sudan's presidential palace: army source
May 01, 2025 (AFP)
The RSF, at war with the army for two years, used "long-range artillery" launched from their holdout position in al-Salha, located south of Khartoum's twin city...
Evacuation of DR Congo troops from M23 zone begins
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was accompanying "a series of convoys" from Goma to the capital Kinshasa carrying the disarmed personnel an...
Burkina junta rallies supporters after claimed coup plot
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
Demonstrators carried giant posters of junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore and Burkinabe and Russian flags in one of the biggest rallies since Traore seized pow...
Sudan paramilitaries kill at least 165 in Darfur city over 10 days: activists
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
The RSF, locked in a brutal conflict with the army since April 2023, pounded North Darfur's capital El-Fasher with more than 750 mortars, tank shells and heavy ...
UN experts demand probe of reported mass killings in Mali
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
The group of more than a dozen independent United Nations experts voiced outrage after the discovery last week of bodies near a Malian military camp days after ...
Sudan paramilitaries shell famine-hit camp, kill over 20
Apr 28, 2025 (AFP)
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), locked in a brutal war with the Sudanese army since April 2023, hit Abu Shouk displacement camp near North Darfur's...
Supporters call to rally around Burkina junta after claimed coup
Apr 28, 2025 (AFP)
On April 21, the west African country's junta claimed to have undone a "major plot" planned by masterminds in neighbouring Ivory Coast, with the arrests of seve...
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