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C.Africa militias abuse peace deal to tighten grip, say experts

Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)

The military situation across the landlocked country has been considered stable since the deal -- the 13th in a decade -- was signed in February between the gov...

S.Africa's show of force in Cape Town ganglands brings little relief

Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)

A few blocks down the road, the rifle and shield-brandishing forces hop off their vehicles and meander through lines of hanging laundry, before swooping in on a...

Mozambique rivals to sign final peace deal

Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)

This marks the third attempt to secure a lasting peace deal between the two long-time rivals since 1992. It comes days after President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo l...

Namibia inaugurates Chinese-built port terminal

Aug 03, 2019 (AFP)

The 40-hectare platform reclaimed from the sea at Walvis Bay, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of Windhoek, is to become a strategic gateway to emerging mar...

Mozambique govt, opposition Renamo sign historic peace pact

Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)

The signing took place in the Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique, nearly 27 years after the end of the country's first civil war. The two leaders hug...

Mozambique leader says will ink formal peace deal with Renamo Thursday

Jul 31, 2019 (AFP)

Nyusi made the announcement during an address to parliament on Wednesday, adding that the formal signing will take place at Renamo's remote military base in the...

Renamo fighters start disarming in Mozambique; Algeria's army chief rejects pre-conditions

Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)

In a symbolic ceremony attended by Renamo leader Ossufo Momade, government representatives and international military experts, four fighters turned in their wea...

Under siege, Somalia moves to reform its army, pay troops

Jul 26, 2019 (AFP)

"We never received the complete amount," a captain told AFP on condition of anonymity, grumbling about "middlemen" who syphon off troops' meagre wages -- some a...

Hopes dashed as Ethiopia-Eritrea peace process stagnates

Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)

Now, he paces among empty tables, wondering aloud how to keep his business open as optimism fades, with borders again sealed and hopes of progress dashed. The Z...

4 killed as Tanzania police clash with illegal fishermen

Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)

The lake, like many of East Africa's so-called Great Lakes, has been hard hit by overfishing, leading to increasing clashes between those plying its waters and ...

One dead, 14 wounded in clash near DR Congo gorilla sanctuary

Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)

The violence occurred near the Kahuzi Biega National Park, a UNESCO heritage site in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is a haven for the world's larges...

S.Sudan fighters told to report to camps for integration

Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)

The deal, signed in September 2018 in a bid to end almost six years of conflict, has suffered heavy delays. One of its biggest hurdles has been the logistics of...

Lake Chad group launches $100 mn fund against jihadists

Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)

West Africa's largest lake -- whose shoreline is shared by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria -- has shrunk by 90 percent since the 1960s, a fall blamed on globa...

Space In Africa closes investment round

Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)

"Many people outside Africa are surprised to hear how significant the African space industry has become, and how the development of the industry has become a re...

Sudan protesters reject 'absolute immunity' for generals

Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)

"We refuse absolute immunity that the military rulers have asked for," Ismail al-Taj, a spokesman for the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) protest group...

Empty nets as overfishing and climate change sap Lake Malawi

Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)

The crew of six deliver a single net of chambo, sardine and tiny usipa fish from the boat, just one of 72 vessels that land their catch every day on the beach a...

Waves of change: Nigeria's Lagos battles Atlantic erosion

Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)

Sprawled around a lagoon, Nigeria's frenetic economic capital faces a threat from the Atlantic on its doorstep. The ocean has pounded the soft, sandy shoreline ...

Calls for unity in Ethiopia's Tigray as anti-Abiy sentiment swells

Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)

It is unusual material for an artist who rose to fame singing love songs, but Solomon expects it will resonate with Tigrayan listeners who have witnessed their ...

With DR Congo's army into forest stronghold of killers

Jul 08, 2019 (AFP)

An AFP photographer embedded with troops in Djugu district found that some 70 percent of villages that he passed through on a stretch of road several dozen kilo...

Tanzanian ministers spar over Kilimanjaro cable car project

Jul 07, 2019 (AFP)

The scheme was announced in April by Tourism Minister Hamisi Kigwangalla as a way of boosting visitor numbers to Africa's tallest mountain. Feasibility studies ...