AFRICA NEWS - INDO DAILY

Jan 19, 2024 (AFP)

The 40-year-old economist returned from exile in November after reaching an agreement with the junta guaranteeing him free exercise of political activities. The...

Blinken to refocus on Africa as Russia, China make gains

Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)

After four frenetic tours of the Middle East since war broke out on October 7 with a Hamas attack on Israel, Blinken will visit Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Angola and...

Russia and Niger pledge to strengthen military ties

Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)

Niger ended security agreements with the European Union and has embraced Russia as a fledgling defence partner after military leaders ousted the country's elect...

Seven killed by strike in Sudan's White Nile State: activists

Jan 14, 2024 (AFP)

Sudan, in northeast Africa, has been devastated by a war between feuding generals since April last year, and the strike in White Nile state is the latest indica...

More than 30 killed in strikes on Sudan capital: NGO

Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)

Sudan has been gripped by nearly nine months of war pitting army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against his former deputy, paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan D...

China supports Somalia's 'integrity' after Ethiopia-Somaliland accord

Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)

Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed January 1, Somaliland agreed to lease 20 kilometres (12 miles) of its coast for 50 years to land-locked Ethiopi...

Chinese foreign minister to visit Egypt, Tunisia this week: ministry

Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)

Wang's first trip of the new year comes as China increasingly focuses on ties in the Global South, seeking to bolster its influence in regions traditionally dom...

Niger regime admits 'civilian victims' after air assault

Jan 06, 2024 (AFP)

The National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) said in a press release that the army had initially "energetically repelled a terrorist attack" by...

Tuareg separatists reject 'inter-Malian' peace dialogue

Jan 02, 2024 (AFP)

Fighting between the separatists and Mali government troops broke out again in August after eight years of calm as both sides scrambled to fill the vacuum left ...

Chad military leaders appoint former opponent PM

Jan 01, 2024 (AFP)

Succes Masra, president of The Transformers party, was a virulent opponent of the regime, which came to power in 2021 after the death of Idriss Deby Itno who le...

DR Congo's Tshisekedi wins second term in landslide victory

Jan 01, 2024 (AFP)

Provisional results from the single-round presidential ballot, declared by the country's electoral commission Ceni, showed that Tshisekedi had won 73 percent of...

UN mission ends decade of deployment in Mali

Dec 31, 2023 (AFP)

The UN stabilisation mission (MINUSMA) had been in place since 2013, and its withdrawal is igniting fears that fighting will intensify between troops and armed ...

Four dead, about 20 missing, after storms in eastern DRCongo

Dec 25, 2023 (AFP)

The accident happened in the rural and mining territory of Mwenga, where local people had sheltered under a hangar serving as a makeshift restaurant on the bank...

ECOWAS delegation in Sierra Leone after 'coup' attempt

Dec 23, 2023 (AFP)

On November 26, armed attackers stormed a military armoury, two barracks, two prisons and two police stations, clashing with security forces. Twenty-one people ...

Niger's partners fill void left after French exit

Dec 22, 2023 (AFP)

The international community, and above all Western countries, had unanimously condemned the July 26 military overthrow of elected president Mohamed Bazoum. The ...

Last French troops to bow out of Africa's Sahel

Dec 22, 2023 (AFP)

The French exit from Niger leaves hundreds of US military personnel, and a number of Italian and German troops, remaining in the country. France said it would p...

Last French troops bow out of Niger

Dec 22, 2023 (AFP)

The French exit leaves just hundreds of US military personnel and a number of Italian and German troops remaining in the country. France announced it would pull...

Last French troops bow out of Africa's Sahel

Dec 22, 2023 (AFP)

The French exit from Niger leaves hundreds of US military personnel, and a number of Italian and German troops, remaining in the country. "Today's date (...) ma...

RIIS joins GEO, expanding Africa's role in world's largest space partnership

Dec 21, 2023 (SPX)

As one of the few South African private entities in GEO, RIIS's formal endorsement at the 61st GEO Executive Committee, announced during the GEO Week and Minist...

Separatist Tuaregs announce blockade in northern Mali

Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)

The Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), an alliance of rebel forces, said it had decided to set up roadblocks across all roads leading to the country's borders...