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France to pull troops from I.Coast in February;Kenya urges DRC 'immediate ceasefire'![]() ![]() Abidjan (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 France will hand back to Ivory Coast its only military base in the west African country in a ceremony on February 20, sources with knowledge of the talks told AFP on Thursday. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced the planned withdrawal in December, making it the latest country in the region to weaken military ties with the former colonial power. "The scheduled date is February 20. Ivory Coast is ready," said a source in Ivory Coast, with sources on the French side confirming the da ... read more |
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![]() Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Feb 8, 2025 Sudan's army chief said Saturday that a transitional government would be formed soon, as the military makes major gains against rival paramilitaries in the capital and central parts of the war-torn country. ... more ![]() ![]() Lilongwe, Malawi (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 Malawi has ordered its military to prepare to withdraw from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group has launched a new offensive, the president's office said. ... more ![]() ![]() Bamako (AFP) Feb 9, 2025 Mali's army vowed Saturday to track down the "terrorists" responsible for a deadly attack on a large convoy en route to a gold mine. ... more ![]() ![]() Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 The United Nations warned Thursday that two southern Sudan states were "on the brink of catastrophe" after a recent eruption of violence reportedly killed at least 80 people in one city. ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rome (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 A migrant who claimed he was tortured by a Libyan war crimes suspect said on Monday that he had filed a complaint with prosecutors claiming Italy's prime minister enabled the suspect to go free. ... more |
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![]() Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Feb 1, 2025 Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and activists, the latest bloodshed in Sudan's devastating war. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jan 31, 2025 The Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign minister on Friday accused Rwanda of illegally occupying part of its territory, after the M23 rebel group captured the eastern Congolese city of Goma. ... more ![]() ![]() N'Djamena (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which marks the end of France's last foothold in the wider jihadist-hit Sahel region. ... more ![]() ![]() N'Djamena (AFP) Jan 30, 2025 The French army has handed over its last base in Chad in a military ceremony in the capital N'Djamena, the general staffs of both countries announced Thursday. ... more |
![]() Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Jan 30, 2025 The Sudanese army said Thursday that it had retaken a key city in the southern state of North Kordofan from rival paramilitaries, who had held it since May 2023. ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 A study led by Malin Pinsky, an ecology and evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, reveals that rising temperatures caused by climate change have a profound and dual impact: they destabilize anima ... more ![]() ![]() Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, carries his frustration as visibly as he carries his passport. To travel across the continent he calls home, he needs 35 visas - each a bureaucratic hurdle ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 Hisdesat, Spain's leading provider of secure satellite communications, is set to launch the SpainSat Next Generation I (SNG I) satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 29 at 20:34 EST (J ... more ![]() ![]() United Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as conditions deteriorate in the region, haunted by the legacy of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath. ... more |
![]() Gogotinkpon/Gogotinkpon (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 The banks and delta of the Mono River in Benin are home to mangrove swamps which harbour fish and rare wild birds - and some are deemed sacred. ... more ![]() ![]() Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Jan 26, 2025 Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the complex, which paramilitaries had encircled since the war erupted in April 2023. ... more ![]() ![]() Taipei (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 Taiwan has identified 52 "suspicious" Chinese-owned ships flying flags of convenience that require close monitoring if detected near the island, the coast guard said Monday, as Taipei seeks to protect its subsea telecoms cables. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jan 24, 2025 Advances being made by the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are "heightening the threat of a regional war," according to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. ... more |
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![]() Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2025 Two US lawmakers said Friday that the United Arab Emirates has violated its promises and kept arming Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, which Washington has accused of genocide. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Jan 24, 2025 NIGCOMSAT has announced a major multi-year, multi-million-dollar partnership aimed at introducing low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services in Nigeria. This agreement designates NIGCOMSAT as the primary satellite service provider in Nigeria, leveraging the OneWeb LEO satellite network to deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity. ... more ![]() ![]() Mogadishu (AFP) Jan 24, 2025 Scores of dead and dying dolphins have washed ashore on a beach in Somalia, local officials said Friday, with horrified residents saying they had never witnessed anything like it. ... more ![]() ![]() Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Jan 24, 2025 The Sudanese army said Friday it broke a siege of its headquarters in Khartoum by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which had encircled it since war broke out in April 2023. ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Rome (AFP) Jan 23, 2025 Italy's government said Thursday a Libyan police chief arrested on a war crimes warrant was flown home after a court found no basis to detain him - and he was too dangerous to remain. ... more |
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![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jan 22, 2025 An open letter Wednesday signed by 126 non-governmental organizations urged public and private lending institutions to end financing for a Mozambique liquified natural gas facility being built by France's TotalEnergies. ... more ![]() ![]() Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 22, 2025 Lesotho's King Letsie III has embarked on an ambitious mission in snowy Davos, where global powerbrokers have converged, to make a royal pitch: invest in his small African nation's green transition. ... more ![]() ![]() The Hague (AFP) Jan 22, 2025 The International Criminal Court on Wednesday confirmed it had issued an arrest warrant for the head of Libya's judicial police on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges, a day after Italy released him. ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Jan 22, 2025 A bid to get five elephants released from a US zoo has failed after judges ruled the animals are not people so laws on unlawful imprisonment do not apply. ... more |
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