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Chinese peacekeepers pulling out of DR Congo

Apr 09, 2024 (AFP)

The 15,000 MONUSCO troops deployed in the vast central African country started to leave in February at the request of the Kinshasa government, which considers t...

IMF approves $574 mn disbursement for Ivory Coast

Apr 08, 2024 (AFP)

The announcement follows the successful completion of the second semi-annual review of Ivory Coast's economic reform program, and the first review of its new cl...

HRW calls for UN probe into Ethiopian army killings

Apr 04, 2024 (AFP)

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, a public independent institution, estimated in February that at least 45 people were killed on January 29 by government f...

Niger junta chief dissolves local councils

Apr 04, 2024 (AFP)

General Abdourahamane Tiani, who ousted the African nation's elected president in a coup last July, signed an order for the dismantling of municipal and regiona...

Smuggled Starlink dishes throw lifeline to some in war-torn Sudan

Apr 03, 2024 (AFP)

At the centre of their huddle is a bright white dish that connects to the internet via Starlink, the satellite system owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket company...

More than 80 parties, NGOs demand Mali election: statement

Apr 01, 2024 (AFP)

The country has been ruled by a junta since back-to-back coups in 2020 and 2021, with the security situation compounded by a humanitarian and political crisis. ...

DR Congo soldiers risk death penalty for 'cowardice'

Mar 29, 2024 (AFP)

It was the first such call for capital punishment since the authorities decided on March 13 to resume executions with a rebellion seizing swathes of land around...

Ethiopia bank clients on 'last warning' over millions lost in glitch

Mar 27, 2024 (AFP)

About $19.5 million was taken when the bank was updating a computer system in the East African country, meaning ATM and online transactions were not reflected i...

Niger says US to submit plan to 'disengage' troops

Mar 27, 2024 (AFP)

Interior minister General Mohamed Toumba met US ambassador Kathleen FitzGibbon on Wednesday to discuss the issue, his ministry said in Niamey, the West African ...

Seven Chadian soldiers killed in mine blast

Mar 26, 2024 (AFP)

President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said several other soldiers were injured in Monday's blast in Tchoukou Telia in the restive Lake Chad region, about 200 kilom...

Al-Shabaab fighters storm Somali military base

Mar 23, 2024 (AFP)

The early-morning raid occurred in Busley, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Mogadishu, where Somali security forces have set up temporary bases for operations agai...

Nigerian troops rescue 16 kidnapped students: army

Mar 23, 2024 (AFP)

Gunmen seized the students just days after the separate kidnapping of around 280 children in the region, where criminal gangs target schools to extract ransom p...

Uganda's President Museveni promotes son to military chief

Mar 22, 2024 (AFP)

The announcement by the defence ministry late on Thursday followed years of speculation that Kainerugaba, whose social media outbursts have sparked diplomatic u...

Muhoozi Kainerugaba: Uganda's mercurial heir apparent

Mar 22, 2024 (AFP)

But he has never paid a price for his social media tirades, bolstering his reputation as the virtually untouchable successor to one of Africa's longest-serving ...

US says Niger cooperation beneficial as it awaits answers

Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)

The military, which seized power in Niger in July, announced in a statement read on national television Saturday evening that it was breaking off an agreement w...

Nigerian army denies reprisal attacks after soldiers killed

Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)

Videos of flaming houses along the Forcados river have circulated on social media since Sunday, but AFP has not been able to verify the footage. Residents in th...

Nigeria pays homage to troops slain on peace mission

Mar 17, 2024 (AFP)

The troops had been responding to unrest between the Okuama and Okoloba communities in the oil-rich southern Delta state. "The cowardly offenders responsible fo...

Youths kill 16 Nigerian troops on communal peace mission

Mar 16, 2024 (AFP)

The troops deployed in the Bomadi region "were surrounded by some community youths and killed on Thursday, March 14," Brigadier General Tukur Gusau said in a st...

Turkey, Iran, Morocco joust for greater role in Sahel

Mar 12, 2024 (AFP)

Turkish military equipment and Moroccan and Iranian development and infrastructure projects are tempting for cash-strapped Sahelian military regimes grappling w...

Guinea-Bissau to try senior figures over 'attempted coup'

Mar 08, 2024 (AFP)

On February 1, 2022, heavily armed men attacked government buildings in the capital Bissau where President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was believed to be attending a c...