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French troops to stay in Chad: Macron envoy

Mar 07, 2024 (AFP)

French influence in its former West African colonies has waned as military rulers battling jihadist rebellions in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger expelled its troo...

Niger, Mali, Burkina creating joint anti-jihadist force

Mar 06, 2024 (AFP)

The new force "will be operational as soon as possible to take into account the security challenges in our space", Niger's army chief Moussa Salaou Barmou said ...

Carter Center calls for cease-fire in Sudan on eve of conflict's one-year anniversary

Mar 05, 2024 (UPI)

"Sudan is on the brink of catastrophe after nearly one year of devastating violence. The window to prevent the conflict in Sudan from spreading into a regional ...

Mali colonel held after book alleges army abuses

Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)

Colonel Alpha Yaya Sangare was detained late Saturday, a day after a defence ministry statement denounced passages in his book, an anonymous military source sai...

Activist abducted in latest Burkina Faso kidnapping

Feb 22, 2024 (AFP)

Bassirou Badjo, an administrator at the General Directorate for National Solidarity and Humanitarian Assistance (DGSAH), was taken from his workplace on Wednesd...

South African soldiers killed in DR Congo return home

Feb 21, 2024 (AFP)

South Africa's decision to contribute troops to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission has been denounced by the main opposition as a mistake...

Niger debt suffers multiple defaults after coup

Feb 19, 2024 (AFP)

Umoa-titres, which manages West African Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU)operations, has published eight notices to investors since the beginning of the year stat...

US 'strongly condemns' violence in eastern DRCongo

Feb 18, 2024 (AFP)

Fighting has flared in recent days around the town of Sake, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Goma, between M23 rebels and Congolese government forces. "The United ...

Abducted Polish doctor freed in Chad, says govt

Feb 13, 2024 (AFP)

Aleksandra Kuligowska, a volunteer at a hospital run by the Caritas Catholic charity, was abducted on Friday. "She is safe and healthy, which I have told those ...

Liberia defence minister resigns days after appointment

Feb 12, 2024 (AFP)

The resignation marks the first political crisis facing Liberia's new president Joseph Boakai since his inauguration at the end of January. Boakai "has received...

Prince William's Earthshot Prize heads to Cape Town

Feb 09, 2024 (AFP)

The initiative -- in its fourth year -- will hold five days of events in November, including the yearly awards ceremony, in the South African city. Previous hos...

Clashes as Senegal parliament delays presidential poll

Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)

The bill was passed near unanimously, with 105 votes in favor and one against, after opposition deputies were forcibly removed from the chamber. It paves the wa...

African Union troops complete new phase of Somalia pullout plan

Feb 02, 2024 (AFP)

Following several major reversals against the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, the Mogadishu government had requested a three-month "technical pause" in the drawdown...

UN 'appalled' by killing of 50 people in Mali attacks

Feb 01, 2024 (AFP)

Volker Turk also expressed alarm at the killing of around 30 others in attacks at the weekend in central Mali, a particular hotbed of violence. "I am appalled b...

EU 'regrets' Mali scrapping peace deal with separatists

Jan 29, 2024 (AFP)

"The European Union regrets the decision taken by the transition authorities to put an end to the peace accord signed in Algiers in 2015," said a statement from...

Gambian festival revitalises tradition of initiatory rite

Jan 29, 2024 (AFP)

Drums, whistles and shouts announce his entrance as he strides forward with machetes to hand. In the eastern town of Janjanbureh, on an island in the Gambia Riv...

Mali ends 2015 peace deal with separatist rebels: military rulers

Jan 25, 2024 (AFP)

The junta blamed the "change in posture of certain signatory groups" but also "acts of hostility" by the lead mediator Algeria, government spokesperson Colonel ...

Six sentenced to death for 2021 Ghana coup plot

Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)

The men were arrested in 2021 while testing weapons at an old shooting range in Accra, and intelligence telephone taps led to a blacksmith shop, where they orde...

Blinken nudges Nigeria on capital flows for US businesses

Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)

A day after meeting President Bola Tinubu in the capital Abuja, Blinken toured the commercial metropolis Lagos where he visited a complex of IT startups and ina...

Carbon-cutting benefit of cookstoves vastly overestimated: study

Jan 23, 2024 (AFP)

A peer-reviewed study looked at carbon offset schemes based on getting rid of primitive charcoal- or wood-burning home stoves used by some 2.4 billion people th...