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Wounded South African soldiers return home from DR Congo

Feb 25, 2025 (AFP)

Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have captured swathes of eastern DRC despite military support provided by several countries, including South Africa, to the Congolese...

HRW accuses army-aligned force of attack on central Sudan village

Feb 25, 2025 (AFP)

In a statement, the rights monitor said the Sudan Shield Forces "intentionally targeted civilians in a January 10 attack" on the village of Tayba in Al-Jazira s...

Officers killed in Sudan plane crash: military source

Feb 25, 2025 (AFP)

In a statement released late Tuesday, the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023, said the plane crashed during...

Sudan army says breaks siege on strategic southern state capital

Feb 23, 2025 (AFP)

El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, has been hemmed in by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since its war with the regular army erupted in April ...

DR Congo army urges deserters to rejoin

Feb 20, 2025 (AFP)

Terrified residents in Lubero, some 250 kilometres (155 miles) north of the provincial capital Goma, told to AFP that mobs of Congolese soldiers were looting as...

Niger junta poised to keep power for five years

Feb 20, 2025 (AFP)

A "national convention" was tasked in February with drafting a new charter outlining the terms of the handover of power back to civilians following the July 202...

France returns sole military base to Ivory Coast

Feb 20, 2025 (AFP)

The French and Ivorian defence ministers signed a document to confirm the return, shortly after the Ivorian flag was raised in the base's parade ground. Though ...

Guinea opposition condemns 'kidnapping' of leading figure

Feb 19, 2025 (AFP)

Abdoul Sacko's Forum of Active Forces movement, which calls for the return of civilian rule in the west African country, condemned the "kidnapping" and pointed ...

Chad says nearly 300 militants killed in Boko Haram offensive

Feb 18, 2025 (AFP)

President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno ordered the campaign in October after Boko Haram a attack on a base in the Lake Chad region killed 40 troops, according to an...

U.N. calls for $6B to fight famine in war-torn Sudan

Feb 17, 2025 (UPI)

"Sudan is a humanitarian emergency of shocking proportions," Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher said Monday during a speech in Geneva. "Civilians are pay...

Nigeria airforce kills 6 civilians in northeast by mistake

Feb 16, 2025 (AFP)

It dropped a bomb on a cluster of huts on the outskirts of Zakka village in Safana district on Saturday, three residents said. The strike came after bandits att...

France set to hand over sole military base in Ivory Coast

Feb 12, 2025 (AFP)

The 230-hectare (570-acre) Port-Bouet military camp flanking Ivory Coast's main city has been a fixture in the country's life for decades and helped stabilise t...

Sudan releases post-war roadmap, calls on int'l community to support it

Feb 10, 2025 (UPI)

The announcement comes as the Sudanese Armed Forces has made significant gains against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leade...

UN says ousted Niger leader 'arbitrarily' detained

Feb 10, 2025 (AFP)

Bazoum, who was elected in 2021, was overthrown on July 26, 2023 by General Abdourahamane Tiani, the head of his presidential guard, over allegations of failing...

Mali army vows to pursue 'terrorists' behind deadly convoy attack

Feb 09, 2025 (AFP)

Soldiers and Wagner mercenaries were escorting a group of mainly foreign civilians to the mine in northern Mali when they were ambushed on Friday by armed assai...

Sudan's army chief plans transitional govt amid advances; 80 dead in southern Sudan

Feb 08, 2025 (AFP)

Speaking in Port Sudan, the country's de facto capital, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the new administration -- described as either a "caretaker government" or a ...

80 dead in southern Sudan violence: UN

Feb 06, 2025 (AFP)

Renewed fighting broke out last week in the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile between the army and a faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-Nort...

Malawi prepares to withdraw troops from DR Congo

Feb 06, 2025 (AFP)

The troops were part of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission deployed in 2023 to help the Kinshasa government quell unrest in the mineral-ric...

France to pull troops from I.Coast in February;Kenya urges DRC 'immediate ceasefire'

Feb 06, 2025 (AFP)

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced the planned withdrawal in December, making it the latest country in the region to weaken military ties with th...

Niger orders Red Cross to leave country

Feb 05, 2025 (AFP)

Niger has "terminated its agreements" with the ICRC and some foreign staff have started to leave the west African country, the source said, adding the organisat...