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Libya military says air strikes target smuggling sites

Jan 06, 2025 (AFP)

It remained unclear if there were casualties from the strikes in Zawiya, a city on the Mediterranean coast about 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of the capital Tr...

Five army volunteers in Burkina killed in attack

Jan 04, 2025 (AFP)

"A forward security forces position, composed mainly of auxiliaries from the Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP), was targeted by armed terrorist...

Lost boy survives five days in Zimbabwe park teeming with lions

Jan 03, 2025 (AFP)

The boy wandered into the Matusadona National Park next to his village on December 27 and was found five days later and about 50 kilometres (about 30 miles) awa...

Guinea junta leader says 2025 a 'crucial electoral year'

Jan 01, 2025 (AFP)

General Mamady Doumbouya leads a junta that overthrew civilian president Alpha Conde in September 2021. Under international pressure, the junta initially pledge...

Ivory Coast president says French forces to withdraw in January

Jan 01, 2025 (AFP)

Ouattara said late on Tuesday that Ivory Coast could be proud of its army "whose modernisation is now effective. "It is in this context that we have decided on ...

Senegal president says no more 'foreign military presence from 2025'

Dec 31, 2024 (AFP)

Faye's statement came a month after he announced that former colonial master France would have to close its military bases in Senegal. "I have instructed the mi...

10 civilians killed in 'accidental' Nigerian army strike

Dec 27, 2024 (AFP)

The strikes were aimed at positions of the Lakurawa jihadist group in a forest in Silame district but instead hit Gidan Bisa and Runtawa, two villages on the ed...

France hands over first base in Chad amid withdrawal

Dec 26, 2024 (AFP)

Chad's military chief of staff said the base at Faya-Largeau in the north of the country had been handed over and that it would inform the public about progress...

Digital Earth Africa launches coastal monitoring tool for informed decision making

Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)

Digital Earth Africa has unveiled a Coastlines Monitoring Service dashboard that leverages satellite Earth observation data to track coastal erosion and growth ...

10 civilians killed in 'accidential' Nigerian army strike

Dec 26, 2024 (AFP)

The strikes were aimed at positions of the Lakurawa jihadist group in a forest in Silame district but instead hit Gidan Bisa and Runtawa, two villages on the ed...

US says kills two Al-Shabaab fighters in airstrike; Gabon jails eight officers over torture

Dec 26, 2024 (AFP)

The strike took place on Tuesday about 10 kilometers (six miles) southwest of the town of Quyno Barrow, south of Mogadishu, the United States Africa Command (US...

Official says Liberia to begin war crimes trials in next five years

Dec 21, 2024 (AFP)

Justice has so far proved elusive for the victims of the back-to-back conflicts that raged in the small West African country between 1989 and 2003. Despite year...

DR Congo president makes changes at top of armed forces

Dec 20, 2024 (AFP)

Lieutenant general Jules Banza Mwilambue takes over at the head of the general staff of the armed forces, according to a decree signed Monday but read out on st...

UAE says will not arm Sudan paramilitary RSF: White House

Dec 20, 2024 (AFP)

The assurance came as the United States announced $200 million in new aid for Sudan, one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters where tens of thousands hav...

Macron sees new role for French military base in Djibouti

Dec 20, 2024 (AFP)

"Our role is changing in Africa because the world is changing in Africa, because public opinion is changing, because governments are changing," he said. Macron ...

France withdraws first contingent of soldiers from Chad: N'Djamena

Dec 20, 2024 (AFP)

A contingent of 120 soldiers left for France from a military airport in the capital, the ministry said in a statement on Facebook, 10 days after French fighter ...

Mali junta renames colonial French street names

Dec 18, 2024 (AFP)

Streets bearing the names of members of France's colonial administration have been rebaptised in Bamako, according to a decree by the junta chief. Cedeao Avenue...

Mali army says captured Islamic State group figure

Dec 16, 2024 (AFP)

The West African state is embroiled in a political, security and economic crisis, and has since 2012 been ravaged by different groups affiliated to Al-Qaeda and...

BBC vows to keep up reporting after Niger suspends radio

Dec 13, 2024 (AFP)

It is the latest in a slew of Western media to be sanctioned by military juntas in the region of western and north-central Africa. BBC radio was to be suspended...

Niger junta suspends BBC for three months

Dec 12, 2024 (AFP)

The ban on the BBC -- accused of airing "erroneous information likely to destabilise social peace and undermine the morale of the troops" fighting jihadists -- ...