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UN anti-torture panel suspends Rwanda trip over 'obstructions'
Oct 21, 2017 (AFP)
The move came less that two weeks after Human Rights Watch reported it had confirmed 104 cases of people being illegally detained and tortured in Rwandan milita...
Niger raid highlights US forces' growing Africa role
Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)
Their mission is to counter the advances of a slew of jihadist movements across the continent, including Al-Shabaab in Somalia, affiliates of the Islamic State ...
Pentagon opens Niger ambush probe as new details emerge
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
Mattis's comments come as questions mount in the US media about what happened on October 4, and criticism over President Donald Trump's handling of the aftermat...
Chad extends key conservation area in national park
Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)
African Parks is to take over management and protection of a territory of high ecological value that lies around the vast Zakouma National Park in southern Chad...
Rwanda military uses torture to force confessions: HRW
Oct 10, 2017 (AFP)
The rights watchdog confirmed 104 cases of people being illegally detained and tortured in Rwandan military detention centres between 2010 and 2016, according t...
New witness emerges over Rwandan genocide: French legal source
Oct 09, 2017 (AFP)
The witness says he saw two surface-to-air missiles at the headquarters of the Tutsi militia headed by current Rwandan President Paul Kagame which were later us...
Liberian women hold mass fast for peaceful elections
Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)
Ahead of elections next Tuesday, women of all ages are gathering from dawn to sunset on a roadside close to the party headquarters of several presidential candi...
Nigeria: Cooperation 'key' to defeating jihadists
Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)
The jihadists, who are allied to the Islamic State group, have destroyed swathes of remote northeast Nigeria since 2009, killing at least 20,000 people and forc...
Three US Green Berets killed in Niger
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
A joint US-Niger patrol fell into an ambush on Wednesday in the Tillaberi region in the country's southwest, requiring French Mirage 2000 fighter jets to be cal...
The link between drought and riots in sub-Saharan Africa
Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers observed a systematic link between the sudden depletion of water resources and the outbreak of unrest. They also succeeded in quantifying the im...
Ghanaian villagers profit from monkey business
Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)
But they have also turned that reverence into revenue, by making the cheeky primates part of an eco-tourist attraction that benefits both animals and locals ali...
Nigerian journalist detained over report on flood camp protest
Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)
More than 100,000 people were forced to flee thir homes in early September following floods in central Benue state, prompting authorities to set up makeshift ca...
C. Africa asks UN to send more peacekeepers, ease arms embargo
Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)
Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Faustin-Archange Touadera said a recent upsurge in violence was linked to a battle for control of the country's na...
New ceasefire signed by armed groups
Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)
The ceasefire lays out an "immediate halt to hostilities", according to a document signed by the groups on Wednesday in Bamako, and the release of prisoners, fo...
West Africa steps up battle against pirates and poachers
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
Identity papers are demanded and the cargo is inspected: one of the crew members is not on the manifest of the "Casimir", which departed from Hong Kong, and the...
Pro-Biafra supporters clash with Nigerian troops
Sep 10, 2017 (AFP)
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement claimed in a statement that five of its members were killed when soldiers and police tried to kill its leader, N...
HRW accuses Mali, Burkina troops of sweeping rights abuses
Sep 08, 2017 (AFP)
"Mali and Burkina Faso military operations to counter the growing presence of Islamist armed groups in central Mali have resulted in serious human rights violat...
DRCongo troops chasing reporter 'force entry' at UN base
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
Journalist Edouard Diye Tshitenge had been planning to present a manifesto on Monday demanding the removal of Kabila, who has refused to step down despite const...
Angolans vote as Dos Santos ends 38-year rule
Aug 23, 2017 (AFP)
The MPLA, which has ruled since Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, is expected to defeat opposition parties stifled by Dos Santos's authoritarian regi...
Africa Endeavor 2017 communications conference starts in Malawi
Aug 21, 2017 (UPI)
The five-day symposium will feature presentations by international communications experts and will focus on sharing interagency communications strategy. The foc...
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