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Virginia Tech explore causes of land cover change in African savannas
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
The study was published in Arid Land Systems: Science and Societies, a special issue of the journal Land. "There is an incredibly dynamic and complex relationsh...
Army takes over Zimbabwe: What we know
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
Analysts say it appears to be the climax of a power struggle between liberation-era figures loyal to ousted vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa and forces faithfu...
UN peacekeeping missions under pressure to reform in Africa
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
Eight of the UN's 15 peacekeeping missions are based in Africa, and several are beset by problems relating to insufficient equipment and mandates ill-suited to ...
Amnesty warns companies on child labour in DRCongo cobalt mining
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
The report found that firms including Microsoft, Renault and Huawei have taken "no action" into how the batteries used in their products could be linked to huma...
African leaders urge support for new security doctrine
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
The annual Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security this year brings together the presidents of Mali, Rwanda and host Senegal along with military officia...
Zimbabwe army chief warns of intervention over party purge
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
"The current purging which is clearly targeting members of the party with a liberation background must stop forthwith," General Constantino Chiwenga told a medi...
US investigators return to scene of Niger ambush
Nov 12, 2017 (AFP)
The news came a day after the Washington Post citing villagers reported that Sgt La David Johnson, one of the four, was found with his arms tied and a gaping wo...
Judges finish investigation into Guinea stadium massacre
Nov 10, 2017 (AFP)
In September 2009, a massive opposition protest in a stadium in Conakry against then junta chief Moussa Dadis Camara's rule ended in bloodshed when his security...
Dozens of new wildlife corridors identified for African mammals
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
According to their publication in the journal PLOS ONE, nearly a sixth of all the wildlife corridors previously identified in Tanzania in 2009 potentially have ...
Niger ambush probe to last until at least January: Pentagon
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
The families of the four soldiers "were informed that the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM)'s investigation team will travel to locations in the U.S., Afri...
Sahel anti-terror force sees teething problems in first mission
Nov 07, 2017 (AFP)
The G5 Sahel force -- an initiative comprising Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger -- last week began its first operation, dubbed Hawbi, with French ...
Deadly heat from climate change may hit slums hardest
Nov 06, 2017 (AFP)
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University analyzed three informal settlements in Nairobi, including the largest, Kibera, home to nearly a million people. Along the...
Tense standoff in Juba as troops encircle ex-army chief's home
Nov 04, 2017 (AFP)
Streets across the city were largely empty as people stayed at home for fear the standoff would erupt into clashes, an AFP correspondent said. The deployment of...
US strikes IS in Somalia for first time
Nov 03, 2017 (AFP)
The strikes occurred in northeastern Somalia and killed "several terrorists," the US military's Africa Command said in a statement. According to Voice of Americ...
Morocco architect fights concrete with tradition
Nov 03, 2017 (AFP)
That is thanks to the ancestral building methods used by Salima Naji, a French-educated Moroccan architect who specialises in construction that blends in with t...
US mission in Niger not what US commanders say it was: reportw
Nov 02, 2017 (AFP)
The target of the October 3-4 overnight operation was a jihadist leader -- known locally as Dandou -- linked to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, the network said...
Death of soldiers highlights US military presence in Niger
Oct 27, 2017 (AFP)
In the aftermath of the soldiers' deaths, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, revealed that about 800 US troops are now based ...
Pentagon looks at stepped-up Africa role to counter IS
Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)
After IS lost its de facto capital Raqa in Syria this month, and its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul earlier, the group "has aspirations to establish a larger presenc...
US military to pursue Niger operations after deadly attack
Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)
Nearly three weeks after jihadists attacked a joint US-Niger patrol in a sensitive border area, General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, s...
C. Africa holds military intervention record
Oct 22, 2017 (AFP)
During a history of chronic political instability and sporadic social upheaval, the country has been the focus of more than a dozen international military inter...
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