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Two customs officers killed in Mali 'jihadist' attack
Jan 24, 2018 (AFP)
"Two customs officers were killed, a terrorist too," according to one source. The attackers arrived in Toubakoro, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the c...
Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack
Jan 20, 2018 (AFP)
"The provisional toll for the cowardly terror attack on Wednesday night in Toummour is seven dead, seventeen wounded and one soldier missing," said a cabinet st...
Search on for kidnapped Americans and Canadians in Nigeria
Jan 18, 2018 (AFP)
Kidnappers seized the four on Tuesday evening in northern Kaduna state, shooting dead two of their Nigerian police escorts in the latest abduction targeting for...
Congo rebels, government meet after ceasefire deal
Jan 17, 2018 (AFP)
Fighters loyal to ex-rebel chief Frederic Bintsamou -- seen as having disbanded after a 2003 peace deal -- rose up again in April last year in protest at the re...
Former DR Congo army chief accused of coup bid held in Gabon
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
"General Faustin Munene has been arrested since Wednesday, January 10... in Gabon," said a statement from a party created by Munene, the Convention of the Peopl...
Sahel defence ministers in Paris in push for 'G5' force
Jan 15, 2018 (AFP)
The brief meeting, in which senior military officers were to take part, aims at setting down a concrete timetable for deploying the so-called "G5 Sahel" force, ...
Unauthorised gold mining in Cameroon reaps deathly toll
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
"The toll of people who died in mining holes... reached 43 in the first 10 months" of 2017, said Foder, a local NGO whose full name in English means Forest and ...
IS-allied Boko Haram faction claims killing of Nigerian troops
Jan 05, 2018 (AFP)
The jihadist faction said in an online statement published by the Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP) that it had orchestrated the raid on army barrack...
US strike targets vehicle bomb in Somalia
Jan 03, 2018 (AFP)
The strike against Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab militants occurred early January 2 about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of the capital. It killed "two terroris...
Mali president names new govt after ex-PM's resignation
Dec 31, 2017 (AFP)
According to a decree published Sunday, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita installed 36 ministers for Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga's government. Six new members are en...
Guinea massacre suspects to go before criminal tribunal
Dec 30, 2017 (AFP)
"I am happy to announce to you that the judicial investigation into the 2009 Conakry stadium massacre ended on December 29. (It) took almost seven years," said ...
Three soldiers killed in central Mali mine blast
Dec 28, 2017 (AFP)
"In their pursuit of the terrorists, the FAMa (Malian armed forces) were victims of a mine explosion," the army said. "The incident took place... in the Bulkess...
Soldier among seven killed in DRCongo clashes
Dec 28, 2017 (AFP)
Since the beginning of 2017, Mai-Mai militias have regularly attacked Congolese army positions in the region. The lastest clashes between government forces and ...
US forces kill 13 Shabaab militants in air strike
Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)
"In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, US forces conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab militants on the morning of Dec. 24, 2017, in south...
Kabila residence burned down in DR Congo
Dec 25, 2017 (AFP)
So-called Mai-Mai armed groups were probably trying to steal goods from the building in Musienene, North Kivu province in the country's troubled east, according...
Ousted Malian president arrives back in Bamako
Dec 24, 2017 (AFP)
Toure flew into the capital, Bamako, the scene of his downfall on March 22, 2012, when mutinous soldiers overthrew the government and detained him. The coup led...
Zimbabwe ex-military chief named ruling party VP
Dec 23, 2017 (AFP)
Retired general Constantino Chiwenga was appointed "with immediate effect" as one of Mnangagwa's deputies in the ZANU-PF party, the presidential press secretary...
Congo rebels, government sign ceasefire pact
Dec 23, 2017 (AFP)
Fighters loyal to ex-rebel chief Frederic Bintsamou -- seen as having disbanded after a 2003 peace deal -- rose up again April last year in protest at the re-el...
South Sudan warring parties ink new ceasefire
Dec 21, 2017 (AFP)
"With effect from 00:01 hours (South Sudan local time) on the 24th day of December 2017, a Cessation of Hostilities (CoH) shall come into force, and the parties...
Liberia's wartime ghosts return to haunt election
Dec 20, 2017 (AFP)
Living in a hovel metres (yards) away from the so-called "College of Knowledge" where the dreaded strongman trained child soldiers to kill, Duko recalls when ti...
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