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Burkina junta critic arrested in growing crackdown: civil group
Apr 04, 2025 (AFP)
The organisation, the Patriotic Front, said in a statement that officials identifying themselves as intelligence officers detained its deputy secretary general ...
Detained Burkina journalists seen at anti-jihadist front line
Apr 03, 2025 (AFP)
The government last week dissolved the Burkina Journalists' Association (AJB), a day after police arrested its president, Guezouma Sanogo, and his deputy, Bouka...
DR Congo commutes death sentence against 3 Americans to life in prison
Apr 02, 2025 (AFP)
Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson and Benjamin Zalman-Polun are being held in a military prison in the capital, Kinshasa. The three Americans, who are aged between...
Sudan army chief says war will not end until RSF lays down its arms
Mar 29, 2025 (AFP)
In his first televised address since the military recaptured the capital Khartoum this week, Burhan said that an end to nearly two years of devastating fighting...
Guinea ex-dictator freed from jail after 2009 massacre pardon: junta
Mar 29, 2025 (AFP)
"Upon the proposal of the minister of justice, a presidential pardon is granted to Mr Moussa Dadis Camara for health reasons," said a decree read out on televis...
DRC seeking 'safe exit' for southern African troops
Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)
The 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) this month pulled the plug on the mission after a string of losses and announced a phased withdrawal...
In Gabon, French army base shifts focus as one of last in Africa
Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)
The "Academie militaire" (Military Academy) sign at the entrance of De Gaulle camp in the capital Libreville has replaced "6th Marine Infantry Battalion", the F...
Zimbabwe moves army chief to sports docket
Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)
The sports vacancy became available this month after Kirsty Coventry became the first woman elected president of the International Olympic Committee, and the fi...
Monitor accuses Sudan army of major strike on Darfur market
Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)
The Emergency Lawyers, a group of volunteer legal professionals, said "hundreds of civilians" were killed in an "indiscriminate air strike on Tora market in Nor...
Sudan army strike on Darfur market kills hundreds: monitor
Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)
The Emergency Lawyers group of volunteer legal professionals who have documented atrocities on both sides of Sudan's nearly two-year war said army warplanes car...
Ghana ex-security chief arrested as fraud crackdown expands
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
Kwabena Adu-Boahene, the country's former National Signals Bureau (NSB) director-general, is accused of diverting funds from a $7 million contract meant to stre...
Paramilitary shelling kills five at Khartoum mosque: lawyers' group
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
The attack, blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), targeted worshippers as they gathered for evening prayers at a mosque in the East Nile distri...
S.Africa and DRC discuss boosting 'defence capabilities'
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
The visit, due to last until Thursday, comes against the backdrop of an escalating conflict in the mineral-rich east of the DRC, where South African troops depl...
Four political activists abducted in Burkina Faso: NGO
Mar 23, 2025 (AFP)
Their abduction follows that of another member of the same Servir et Non Se Servir (SENS) movement on Tuesday, and added to numerous other kidnappings of people...
Ugandan army attacks journalists covering election: RSF
Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)
The journalists were "severely beaten" while covering the vote in Kawempe North, a district of the capital, Kampala, on March 13 by members of the army and an a...
Sudan army says retakes presidential palace from RSF
Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)
"Our forces completely destroyed the enemy's fighters and equipment, and seized large quantities of equipment and weapons," army spokesman Nabil Abdallah said i...
13 soldiers killed in jihadist attacks in Niger: army
Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)
During the first incident, at a gold mining site in the western Tillaberi region, "nine soldiers fell in combat" with Islamic State affiliates, the army said in...
Leading ethnic Fulani figure shot dead in Mali
Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)
Primarily nomadic herders, the Fulani people are often stigmatised across the wider Sahel region, accused of collaborating with the violent Islamist groups who ...
S.Sudan carries out air strike against civilians: local official
Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)
Clashes in Nasir County, Upper Nile State, between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar have threatened to undermine their ...
Stench of death hangs over Khartoum as RSF attacks kill 50
Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)
"Khartoum is experiencing tragic conditions, with citizens in multiple areas facing widespread violations by the RSF and allied militias," the Khartoum Emergenc...
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