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U.K. Defense Ministry announces first military exercises with Sierra Leone
Jan 10, 2017 (UPI)
Britain's armed forces will conduct training exercises alongside troops from the Sierra Leone for the first time, the U.K. Defense Ministry announced. The annou...
Reshuffle in I.Coast, security chiefs out after mutiny
Jan 09, 2017 (AFP)
Ivory Coast initiated a post-election reshuffle on Monday and fired the heads of its armed forces and police after a brief army mutiny that stoked security fear...
I.Coast soldiers end mutiny after deal
Jan 08, 2017 (AFP)
Ivory Coast soldiers on Sunday ended a two-day mutiny in the second city Bouake and other key areas after reaching a deal on their demands for pay rises, housin...
Gunfire in Abidjan as Ivory Coast mutiny spreads
Jan 07, 2017 (AFP)
Shots rang out at a military base in Abidjan on Saturday as a mutiny by disgruntled troops appeared to spread to Ivory Coast's economic capital despite governme...
Chad closes border with Libya over 'terror threat'
Jan 05, 2017 (AFP)
Chad announced Thursday that it has closed its border with Libya due to the threat of a "potential terrorist infiltration" and is boosting its military presence...
At least 15 dead in DR Congo ethnic clashes: local sources
Jan 05, 2017 (AFP)
At least 15 people from DR Congo's Bantu community were killed Thursday in an attack blamed on Pygmies in an area of the southeast that has seen repeated ethnic...
Gambia army chief backs president as region watches
Jan 04, 2017 (AFP)
The Gambia's army chief on Wednesday reaffirmed his loyalty to President Yahya Jammeh, despite the threat of a regional military intervention if the strongman r...
Guinea soldier wanted over stadium massacre appears in court
Dec 29, 2016 (AFP)
A Guinean soldier implicated in a 2009 massacre at a Conakry stadium has appeared before a court prosecutor in Dakar, as details emerged about his years living ...
SEC probes Mozambique debt sold by Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas
Dec 29, 2016 (AFP)
A US market regulator is probing the sale of $850 million in Mozambique government bonds used to purchase military equipment, which involved three major banks, ...
Nigerian army 'crushes' Boko Haram in key stronghold
Dec 24, 2016 (AFP)
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday claimed the military had routed Boko Haram in a key northeastern stronghold, a year after saying the Islamist mi...
Influx of Chinese investors angers Madagascans
Dec 18, 2016 (AFP)
The mine had not yet opened, but Madagascans were already seething with rage and the Chinese management finally quit Soamahamanina, leaving behind empty tents a...
UN cancels controversial Gambia army chief's Darfur visit
Dec 16, 2016 (AFP)
The UN has stopped The Gambia's controversial army chief from visiting troops serving as peacekeepers in Darfur, as international pressure grows on the country'...
Mobile money lifts Kenyan households out of poverty
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Since 2008, MIT economist Tavneet Suri has studied the financial and social impacts of Kenyan mobile-money services, which allow users to store and exchange mon...
Mali rivals must stick to peace deal: French minister
Dec 06, 2016 (AFP)
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Tuesday urged Mali's warring factions to stick to a peace deal to end a long and bloody conflict. Northern Mali fe...
Fidel Castro's military forays in Africa
Nov 26, 2016 (AFP)
Back in the 1970s at the height of the Cold War, the small Caribbean nation of Cuba went to war thousands of miles away in the battlefields of Angola and Ethiop...
US seeks UN arms embargo against South Sudan
Nov 18, 2016 (AFP)
The United States on Thursday launched a bid at the Security Council to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan following UN warnings that the war-torn country co...
Uganda nabs suspect in $120 mn fake arms deal
Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)
Uganda's police said Tuesday they had nabbed a con man suspected of swindling a Polish weapons manufacturer into signing a bogus 120-million dollar arms deal. B...
Africa waits and wonders on Trump's foreign policy
Nov 12, 2016 (AFP)
Across Africa, the approaching presidency of Donald Trump has provoked deep uncertainty over how the United States will pursue policies ranging from counter-ter...
Mali coup leader readies for trial over massacre
Nov 11, 2016 (AFP)
An army officer who led Mali's 2012 coup against then president Amadou Toumani Toure will stand trial on November 30 for murder and collusion over the massacre ...
Lesotho army chief, accused of 2014 coup attempt, resigns
Nov 08, 2016 (AFP)
The Lesotho army chief who was accused of launching an attempted coup in the mountain kingdom in 2014 is to step down, officials said Tuesday, in a move that co...
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