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Arms, investment and 'instructors': Russia boosts Africa role
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
Moscow has worked hard over the last three years to strengthen its position in Africa, a pace that seems to have accelerated in recent months, they say. Its eff...
South Sudan president pardons rival, rebels: state radio
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
The announcement comes days after the two men signed a power-sharing deal in the Sudanese capital Khartoum aimed at ending a nearly five-year civil war that has...
Canadian UN peacekeepers return to Africa after 24 years
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
Two artillerymen are scanning the ground below when the pilot announces that "one of the gauges has stopped. We only have one engine left". As Canada sends its ...
Three Congo soldiers walk free after 'mass murder' convictions
Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)
"The sentences deny justice to the victims, who included women and children," the New York-based NGO said in a statement, protesting that the jail terms "do not...
Suspicion of electoral fraud revives ethnic tension in Mali
Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)
Eighteen of the 24 candidates in the election joined forces Monday to demand the resignation of the minister of territorial administration and decentralisation,...
China urges Zimbabweans to 'respect' vote result
Aug 03, 2018 (AFP)
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took power after veteran leader Robert Mugabe was ousted late last year, was declared the winner on Friday with 50.8 percent o...
Russia says its military in C.Africa only to train local troops
Aug 03, 2018 (AFP)
Journalists Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev and Orkhan Dzhemal were killed in CAR on Monday. They were reporting on the so-called Wagner Group -- a comp...
Canada launches peacekeeping mission in Mali
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
The contingent of 250 soldiers and six helicopters is expected to conduct medical evacuations in the north of the country from Wednesday as they take over from ...
What we know about Russia's 'Wagner Group'
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
Wagner has been active in conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, and has sent mercenaries to the Central African Republic and Sudan, according to Western and independe...
C.Africa rebels rearm after military gets Russia weapons:UN panel
Jul 31, 2018 (AFP)
In a report released Tuesday, the panel said the UN-approved deliveries of military equipment to CAR's defense forces had "led to waves of rearmament" by some f...
Uganda jails 35 Congolese for illegal fishing
Jul 28, 2018 (AFP)
"We got 35 Congolese nationals. Thirty-one of them pleaded guilty and were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for illegal fishing and entry into Uga...
China to invest $14 bn in S.Africa
Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)
Ramaphosa came to power in February pledging to revive the economy and attract investors after Jacob Zuma was ousted from office at the end of a nine-year reign...
China's Xi inks deals in Rwanda on whirlwind tour
Jul 23, 2018 (AFP)
Among the deals agreed, the value of which was not revealed, were loans for road construction, hospital renovation and the development of Rwanda's new Bugesera ...
Three Ugandan soldiers lynched by angry crowd: police
Jul 22, 2018 (AFP)
"Three of our soldiers have been killed by a mob and investigations are going on to establish the circumstances under which the soldiers were killed," the offic...
Trade accords on Xi's agenda during Senegal swing
Jul 21, 2018 (AFP)
Senegalese President Macky Sall welcomed his counterpart to Dakar for afternoon talks before Xi continues a tour of the region Sunday, heading to Rwanda, then S...
G5 Sahel force licks wounds after HQ attack
Jul 20, 2018 (AFP)
Countries in the G5 Sahel -- Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger -- joined with France, the big international backer of the force, in vowing not to surr...
China donates 7 mn euros to Cameroon's security forces
Jul 19, 2018 (AFP)
The donation was made on Wednesday by China's ambassador to the central African country, Wang Ying Wu, in a meeting with Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo, CR...
Fifteen dead in armed clashes in DR Congo
Jul 18, 2018 (AFP)
"Five civilians and two members of the 'Guidon' group were killed Monday in clashes in Kamiro," said Cosmas Kangakolo, administrator of the Masisi territory in ...
Mali town learns to live without a state
Jul 17, 2018 (AFP)
As the goats scatter to surrounding alleys, a policeman from the UN mission (MINUSMA) jokes: "The only residents have fled now." Sent from the regional capital,...
Foiled peace bids and greedy gangs dog C. Africa
Jul 17, 2018 (AFP)
Huddled with assault rifles in a pickup truck that slides across the thick red mud, the Tanzanian peacekeepers keep watch on the Mambere-Kadei forest, home to a...
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