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Somalia's Shabaab ends bloody decade resurgent and unbowed
Dec 31, 2019 (AFP)
Despite years of costly efforts to combat the group, Al-Shabaab managed once again to detonate a vehicle packed with explosives in Mogadishu, slaughtering 81 pe...
US strikes in Somalia kill four militants
Dec 30, 2019 (AFP)
US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted three airstrikes in two locations in the conflict-hit east African nation on Sunday targeting Al-Shabaab militants, it sai...
Eritrean president vows to 'bolster cooperation' with Ethiopia
Dec 26, 2019 (AFP)
Isaias flew to Addis Ababa Wednesday for his first meeting with the Ethiopian prime minister since Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for initiating a th...
Algeria starts funeral of army chief Gaid Salah
Dec 25, 2019 (AFP)
The wooden coffin containing the body of Gaid Salah, who died of a heart attack on Monday aged 79, arrived at 0630 GMT, covered in a national flag and carried b...
Ethiopia's Abiy meets Eritrean leader for first time since winning Nobel
Dec 25, 2019 (AFP)
Eritrea and Ethiopia fought a border war in 1998-2000 that left an estimated 80,000 dead before a prolonged stalemate took hold. Shortly after he came to power ...
Nigeria frees former top official accused of graft
Dec 25, 2019 (AFP)
Sambo Dasuki spent four years in prison despite multiple court orders to Nigeria's Department of State Services (DSS) domestic intelligence agency for his relea...
China launches Ethiopia first satellite into orbit
Dec 24, 2019 (Sputnik)
Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space with the help of Chinese partners in order to track down agricultural data, africanews.space website has re...
US considers pulling troops from West Africa: report
Dec 24, 2019 (AFP)
There are between 6,000 and 7,000 US troops in Africa, mainly in West Africa but also in places like Somalia. The US presence includes military trainers as well...
Next year vital for Sahel's future: French army general
Dec 17, 2019 (AFP)
"It is now, in the coming year, that the Sahel's future will be determined," Francois Lecointre told France Info radio. Only a political solution involving all ...
71 killed in Niger military camp: defence ministry
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
Tuesday's attack in Inates in the western Tillaberi region was the deadliest on Niger's military since the country's Islamist militant violence began in 2015. "...
US curbs S.Sudan visas over government delay
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States would deny visas to individuals who "undermine or impede the peace process in South Sudan." "The people of...
Ethiopia PM Abiy urges unity as he collects Nobel Peace Prize
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
"There is no 'Us and Them'," he said in his speech at Oslo's flower-bedecked City Hall. "There is only 'Us', for 'We' are all bound by a shared destiny of love,...
Military chief Gaid Salah, guardian of Algeria's opaque regime
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
Many now see the general, a veteran of Algeria's war for independence, as the guardian of the military-dominated system that has been in power ever since. He ha...
Pressured at home, Ethiopia PM picks up Nobel Peace Prize
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
Hailed as a modern, reformist leader, Ahmed's decision to skip all events with the press has dismayed his Norwegian hosts. Africa's youngest leader at just 43, ...
Stakes are global as Africa faces 'climate dilemma'
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
With two-thirds of its population lacking electricity, much of Africa's energy future remains a blank slate. But unless the continent's leaders can forge a deve...
Five questions on change and challenges in Abiy's Ethiopia
Dec 08, 2019 (AFP)
The 43-year-old reformer will be under enormous pressure to live up to the "Abiymania" hype that has faded somewhat since he took office last year. General elec...
Climate change threatens end of trail for Niger's nomadic herders
Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)
It was noon and 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) on the ninth day of their quest to reach new pastures. There was no tree anywhere, no shelter at all...
West Africa's Fulani nomads fight climate change to survive
Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)
The Fulani are pastoral herders who migrate with their cattle, following the pendulum swing of the seasons. But their age-old way of life is under threat. Boomi...
Two Malian troops killed, seven injured in roadside bomb
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
The attack follows the deaths of 13 French troops in a mid-air helicopter collision last week as they were chasing jihadists in northern Mali. Mali has been str...
New IMF chief urges debt wisdom in maiden Africa visit
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Africa has made "tremendous improvements", the IMF managing director said at a conference near the Senegalese capital Dakar on sustainability and debt. "As a re...
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