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Uganda kills 'herbalist' who attacked military bases
Nov 05, 2025 (AFP)
The attack began on Saturday and targeted three districts in Uganda's remote western regions along the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the army ...
On Nigeria, domestic politics again shapes Trump's Africa agenda
Nov 05, 2025 (AFP)
Trump last week said he would put Nigeria on a blacklist on religious freedom over treatment of Christians -- a long-running demand of evangelicals who are one ...
Responding to Trump, Nigeria says no tolerance for religious persecution
Nov 04, 2025 (AFP)
Trump said on social media that he had asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack in Africa's most populous nation because radical Islamists are "k...
Nigeria urges Trump meeting after military action threat
Nov 02, 2025 (AFP)
In an explosive post, Trump said on social media on Saturday that he asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack in Nigeria, one day after warning t...
'Rounded up': survivors say Sudan's RSF detains hundreds near El-Fasher
Nov 02, 2025 (AFP)
"We were rounded up and taken," he told AFP on Sunday, explaining how he and roughly 200 other young men were detained for days by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fi...
New satellite images suggest mass killings persist in Sudan's El-Fasher
Nov 01, 2025 (AFP)
At war with the regular army since April 2023, the RSF seized El-Fasher on Sunday, pushing the army out its last stronghold in the western Darfur region after a...
Tanzania president wins election landslide after deadly protests
Nov 01, 2025 (AFP)
The final result showed Hassan won 97.66 percent of the vote, dominating every constituency, the electoral commission announced on state television. A quick swe...
Pillaged I.Coast nature reserve on the mend after crisis decade
Oct 31, 2025 (AFP)
"The most dangerous animal here is man," the lieutenant told AFP, while at the head of a 10-strong patrol on the lookout for hostile intruders. Founded as a big...
UN support for Morocco's plan for Western Sahara 'historic': King Mohammed VI
Oct 31, 2025 (AFP)
"We are opening a new and victorious chapter in the process of enshrining the Moroccan character of the Sahara, which is intended to bring this issue to a defin...
G.Bissau army says thwarted 'subversion' attempt, several officers arrested
Oct 31, 2025 (AFP)
"This action aimed to disrupt the electoral process," General Mamadu Ture, deputy chief of staff, told a press conference without specifying the number of offic...
Axelspace forms partnerships in Africa to tackle social challenges with satellite data
Oct 31, 2025 (SPX)
The agreements were formalized at the NIHONBASHI SPACE WEEK 2025 event in Japan. Genevieve Edna Apaloo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Repu...
U.S. ordered all nonemergency personnel, family to leave Mali
Oct 30, 2025 (UPI)
"The Department of State ordered non-emergency employees and their family members to leave Mali due to safety risks," the State Department said in an update to ...
Axelspace initiates partnerships with African agencies for satellite data-driven solutions
Oct 30, 2025 (SPX)
The MoU with GSSTI was formalized during NIHONBASHI SPACE WEEK 2025 in Japan on October 29, witnessed by Ghana's Ambassador to Japan, Genevieve Edna Apaloo, who...
RSF reportedly kills hundreds in Sudan hospital
Oct 29, 2025 (UPI)
The alleged massacre of more than 460 people at the Saudi Maternity Hospital was condemned by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the secretary-general of the World Hea...
Nigeria lacking resources for jihadist fight: top general
Oct 29, 2025 (AFP)
Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, tapped by President Bola Tinubu as the next chief of defence staff, was addressing the National Assembly in the capital Abuj...
AU condemns atrocities, 'war crimes' in Sudan's El-Fasher
Oct 28, 2025 (AFP)
After an 18-month siege, the city was seized in October by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group which Sudanese army troops have been fighting since...
Sudanese army cedes Darfur to paramilitary group amid fears of mass killings
Oct 28, 2025 (UPI)
Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday took control of El Fasher, a city in Sudan's Darfur region and its army's headquarters, more than a year and a half after it sta...
El-Fasher's fall to RSF risks new Sudan split: analysts
Oct 27, 2025 (AFP)
On Sunday, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army since April 2023, claimed full control over the city they have besieged for nearly 18 mon...
Sudan's RSF says takes army HQ in key Darfur city
Oct 26, 2025 (AFP)
The RSF claimed it had "liberated the Sixth Division... and broken the backbone of the Islamic Movement Army," referring to the national army it has been battli...
Five things to know about Ivory Coast as it goes to polls
Oct 25, 2025 (AFP)
Here are five things to know about the former French colony. - From stability to crisis - Ivory Coast, bordered by the Atlantic, gained independence from France...
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