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Fighting near Sudan aid hub; UN agrees to early withdrawal of DRC peacekeepers
Dec 19, 2023 (AFP)
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Sunday set up a base near Wad Madani, where their offensive has sent thousands fleeing Sudan's second city and former a...
UN agrees to early withdrawal of DRC peacekeepers; Fighting near Sudan UN aid hub
Dec 19, 2023 (AFP)
The resolution, which renews the mandate of the peacekeeping mission in DRC for a further year, includes plans for the departure of peacekeepers from South Kivu...
UN prepares to start pulling peacekeepers from DR Congo
Dec 19, 2023 (AFP)
The drawdown would come despite United Nations concern about violence in the eastern part of the country. Ravaged by conflict, the vast and impoverished DR Cong...
Burkina authorities accuse jihadists of civilian 'massacres'
Dec 18, 2023 (AFP)
Several videos circulating on social media since the start of December have accused the army of committing acts of violence against civilians in the northern Dj...
Paramilitaries seize town as fighting rages in Sudan's second city
Dec 18, 2023 (AFP)
It came a day after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces set up a base in Wad Madani, where their offensive has sent thousands fleeing Sudan's second city and ...
Anti-tank mine kills 4 soldiers in Senegal's Casamance
Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)
Three others were wounded in the explosion, which occurred on Thursday "during a mission" in Nord Bignona, near the border with Gambia, the army's public relati...
Dozens killed in jihadist attack in central Mali: Local sources
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
However the Malian army reported only that it had repelled a "terrorist" attack on the Farabougou camp on Tuesday, without mentioning casualties. Central Mali i...
US says prepared to resume conditional cooperation with Niger
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
Washington suspended aid to the jihadist-hit West African country following the July 26 coup that toppled the country's elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. The d...
Rwanda relaxes curbs on bars, clubs for festive season
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
All "non-essential services" in the tightly controlled east African country have been trading under shorter opening hours since September when the government un...
Benin landmine blast kills two soldiers: security sources
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the incident in Karimama district close to the border with Niger. But northern Benin, like its neighbours Ghana,...
Ugandan air strikes killed 200 rebels in DRC in September, says Museveni
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
Originally Ugandan rebels with a Muslim majority, the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) have been active since the mid-1990s in the eastern DR Congo, where they ha...
Niger says all French troops will have left by December 22
Dec 12, 2023 (AFP)
Niger's military rulers scrapped defence agreements with France, its traditional security partner, as relations nosedived following a July coup. French Presiden...
UN mission in Mali officially ends after 10 years
Dec 11, 2023 (AFP)
The symbolic ceremony marks the official end of the mission, the mission's spokesperson Fatoumata Kaba said, even though some elements remain in the country. "W...
NASA Helps Study One of the World's Most Diverse Ecosystems
Dec 11, 2023 (JPL)
"The food we eat, the clean water that we drink, and the air we breathe comes from the diversity of life on planet Earth," said Erin Hestir of the University of...
UN peacekeepers hand over one of last camps to Mali authorities
Dec 08, 2023 (AFP)
The withdrawal of the UN stabilisation mission, known as MINUSMA, has ignited fears that fighting will intensify between troops and armed factions for territori...
Guinea-Bissau army displays weapons haul after coup attempt
Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)
Armed forces head General Biague Na Ntam, who has remained loyal to the president, presented dozens of weapons as well as communications equipment to the press ...
U.S. says Sudan's warring sides have committed war crimes
Dec 07, 2023 (UPI)
The declaration was made Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, nearly eight months after war erupted in the northeast African nation between the ...
'National circumstances' key to COP28 fossil fuel deal: S.Africa minister
Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)
Creecy has been appointed by the Emirati presidency to facilitate discussions on how countries are making progress on meeting their Paris Agreement climate goal...
UN deplores deadly Nigeria drone strike on civilians
Dec 06, 2023 (AFP)
A Nigerian army drone targeting armed groups killed at least 85 civilians by mistake on Sunday in northwest Kaduna State, causing outrage over one of the countr...
World Bank unveils $5 bn renewable energy plan for Africa
Dec 06, 2023 (AFP)
The World Bank estimates that around 600 million people in Africa do not currently have access to reliable electricity, a key factor hampering job creation and ...
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