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Zimbabwe rights groups accuse govt of 'abuses'
Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)
Mugabe was toppled by his military generals in November 2017, when tanks rolled into Zimbabwe's capital Harare and thousands of civilians poured out on the stre...
Protesters ransack UN supplies in central Mali
Oct 12, 2019 (AFP)
Around 1,000 people had been protesting outside the local airport and a military camp housing the UN peacekeeping force, known as MINUSMA, in Sevare, near the c...
Ethiopia's Abiy urged to cement 'rights legacy' after Nobel win
Oct 11, 2019 (AFP)
Abiy, hailed by the Nobel Committee "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation", sparked a historic rapprochement with longtime foe Eritrea...
Abiy Ahmed: Meteoric rise of the man trying to remould Ethiopia
Oct 11, 2019 (AFP)
Another chapter was added to his remarkable tale on Friday when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Since becoming Ethiopian prime minister in April 2018, the...
Mali's main jihadist group claims deadly army base attacks: media
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
The Al-Qaeda-allied Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) said it carried out the attacks in Boulkessy and Mondoro in central Mali near the Burkina Faso bor...
'Bandits' kill nine solidiers in northwest Nigeria attack
Oct 07, 2019 (AFP)
Dozens of gunmen on motorcycles on Thursday stormed a military post in the remote village of Sunke in Zamfara state and opened fire, the sources said. "We lost ...
Families survive on one meal in drought-hit Zimbabwe
Oct 05, 2019 (AFP)
In the morning only the children get the porridge, and everyone skips lunch. "During the day we have wild fruit collected by the children, and at night we have ...
Paris presses EU allies to shore up Mali's army against jihadists
Oct 03, 2019 (AFP)
The idea is to improve on the basic training for forces which are often outgunned and inexperienced, and free up France's 4,500-strong Barkhane operation to foc...
Gabon juggles competing demands in fight to protect nature
Oct 02, 2019 (AFP)
But those living in poverty in the shadow of the park are ambiguous. They see the forests less as a global treasure to be cosseted and more as a resource that t...
Mali army in major clash with jihadists
Oct 01, 2019 (AFP)
The military camps came under attack on Monday at Boulkessy and Mondoro, towns near the border with Burkina Faso, and intense fighting continued on Tuesday with...
Nigeria tech industry slams 'illegal arrests' of developers
Sep 30, 2019 (AFP)
Outrage erupted from the tech community and on social media in Africa's most populous country over the weekend after Lagos-based software engineer Toni Astor sa...
Cameroon opens dialogue to end Anglophone separatist crisis
Sep 30, 2019 (AFP)
Nearly 3,000 people have died and half a million fled their homes since fighting broke out in 2017 between the army and insurgents who want independence for Cam...
Algeria army chief says Bouteflika brother's jail term 'just punishment'
Sep 29, 2019 (AFP)
"The just punishment handed down to certain elements of the gang... (amount to) realising an urgent and legitimate claim of the people," Ahmed Gaid Salah said. ...
DR Congo jails 55 for life for Ituri massacres
Sep 29, 2019 (AFP)
A military tribunal in Bunia, the capital of Ituri, "sentenced to life 55 people, including a soldier, a policeman and an agent for the intelligence services," ...
Cameroon's Silicon Mountain tech startups struggle with insurgency
Sep 27, 2019 (AFP)
Entrepreneurs in the tech village wanted to launch new technologies and make Cameroon a market player on the model of California, but the bloody insurgency in t...
Seven troops killed in Mali 'terrorist' ambush
Sep 26, 2019 (AFP)
A unit escorting a convoy of trucks laden with fertiliser struck a mine on a highway between Douentza and Sevare before being attacked by gunfire, it said. "Sev...
Outsider leads after divisive Tunisia presidential poll
Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)
Saied was on 19 percent, leading imprisoned media magnate Nabil Karoui, who was on 14.9 percent, and ahead of the candidate from the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha ...
Egypt's Sisi denies graft accusations
Sep 14, 2019 (AFP)
Videos posted online from outside the country since early September accusing Sisi and Egypt's military of graft have gone viral, sparking rare debate about the ...
In Ivory Coast, telemedicine revolution proves blessing for heart patients
Sep 14, 2019 (AFP)
It wasn't just the hospital fee -- there was the transport, food and accommodation, too, all of it amounting to a hefty burden for an Ivorian family on a modest...
Suspect funds used to send military gear to Sudan neighbours: Bashir trial witness
Sep 14, 2019 (AFP)
Bashir was deposed by the army in April following months of protests against his iron-fisted rule of three decades. In August, he was charged with the illegal a...
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