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Death toll in SLeone flood disaster reaches 441
Aug 19, 2017 (AFP)
"Four hundred and forty-one corpses (were) buried as at yesterday," the deputy minister of information and communication, Cornelius Deveaux, told AFP, adding th...
UN says Nigeria relations 'intact' after unauthorised raid
Aug 12, 2017 (AFP)
Peter Lundberg told a press conference in Maiduguri that the United Nations was working with the Nigerian government to resolve the issue of Friday's search of ...
Dalai Lama cancels Botswana trip with 'exhaustion'
Aug 12, 2017 (AFP)
The 82-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, was to speak at a three day conference in Botswana's capital Gaborone, which begins on Au...
Nigerian forces in 'unauthorised search' of UN camp
Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)
A UN source told AFP that the search of the camp in Maiduguri, known as the "Red Roof", was illegal under international law and may have been triggered by inacc...
Kenyan opposition demands Odinga be 'declared president'
Aug 10, 2017 (AFP)
Coalition leader Musalia Mudavadi told journalists that "confidential sources" within the IEBC had revealed the "actual results", showing Odinga had won the pre...
India Eyes Big Business with Africa in Space Exploration
Aug 09, 2017 (Sputnik)
New Delhi (Spuntik) - Ghana recently launched its first ever satellite, GhanaSat-1, from NASA's International Space Station. A group of students at Ghana's All ...
Calls for peace on eve of tense Kenya election
Aug 07, 2017 (AFP)
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta gave a televised election-eve speech aimed at easing tensions, after a final campaign week marred by rigging accusations levelle...
Zimbabwe confirms clash between soldiers and police
Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)
Witnesses told local media about a hundred uniformed soldiers wielding batons and whips charged into a bus terminus on Tuesday night and beat up police officers...
Rwanda's Kagame in landslide poll win with around 98% of votes
Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)
There had been little doubt that the 59-year-old would return to the helm of the east African nation which he has ruled with an iron fist since the end of the 1...
European support for Sahel 'mutually reinforcing': Germany
Aug 02, 2017 (AFP)
Ursula von der Leyen spoke to journalists in Bamako after talks with President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, arriving six days after a helicopter crash in the country...
China opens first chamber of commerce in I.Coast
Jul 31, 2017 (AFP)
It will house some 40 separate businesses involved in a range of projects, from supplying drinking water to Abidjan, to the expansion of the city's port and the...
Senegal ruling party coalition claims election landslide
Jul 31, 2017 (AFP)
The Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition swept all but three of the country's 45 electoral departments, Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne told the publi...
Adama Barrow: how do you solve a problem like The Gambia?
Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)
When Barrow finally took power in The Gambia in late January after a prolonged political crisis, the euphoria soon turned to grim recognition that Jammeh had mo...
Mali broadcaster, govt critic, gets jail for 'incitement'
Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)
The sentence, which included a fine of 100,000 CFA francs (about 150 euros) was handed down on Wednesday when Mohamed Youssouf Bathily, dubbed "Ras Bath", was o...
Two German UN peacekeepers killed in Mali helicopter crash
Jul 26, 2017 (AFP)
UN diplomats confirmed that the attack helicopter and the crew had been supplied by Germany to MINUSMA, the UN mission in Mali. "Sadly we now know that two Bund...
China warns Botswana over Dalai Lama visit
Jul 26, 2017 (AFP)
The Tibetan spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, is due to speak at the three-day "Mind and Life Dialogue" conference in Botswana's capital Gaborone, ...
Peace deal eludes Senegal's Casamance, 35 years on
Jul 20, 2017 (AFP)
Separatist rebels of the Mouvement des Forces Democratiques de Casamance (MFDC) began fighting for independence more than three decades ago but have long ceased...
Rwandan forces killing suspects without trial: HRW
Jul 13, 2017 (AFP)
They draped slabs of the dead cow's carcass around his shoulders and positioned the animal's head on his before marching him into a banana plantation and shooti...
Gambian army 'hostile elements' working against government
Jul 07, 2017 (AFP)
West African troops were first sent to The Gambia in January to compel Jammeh to relinquish power to his elected successor Adama Barrow, but were retained at th...
3 killed in north Mali clashes as UN condemns violence
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
Mali's north is controlled in parts by armed groups loyal to Bamako and in others by former rebels who want greater autonomy for the region, while the state is ...
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