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Can Africa's mobile money revolution reduce poverty?
Sep 28, 2016 (AFP)
When farmer Isaac Tondo fell on lean times in Liberia's long rainy season, his brother in the capital sent 8,000 Liberian dollars (US$87) to his Lonestar mobile...
Soldier, civilian killed in Mali's Timbuktu
Sep 27, 2016 (AFP)
One soldier and a civilian were killed in Mali's ancient city of Timbuktu in a suspected jihadist attack, military sources told AFP Monday. The killers arrived ...
UN fears Mali clashes could hurt peace process
Sep 22, 2016 (AFP)
The UN has voiced concerns over Mali's shaky peace deal following deadly clashes between groups that have signed up to the agreement. The clashes last week -- b...
Bringing schools and communities online in Africa
Sep 19, 2016 (ESA)
ESA is now working with satellite operator Avanti Communications to bring a swathe of new affordable Internet services to more people across sub-Saharan Africa ...
Disease outbreak kills 19 in rain-hit Sudan: minister
Sep 19, 2016 (AFP)
An outbreak of water-borne disease has killed at least 19 people and sickened scores more in Sudan's rain-ravaged states of Blue Nile and Kasala, a minister sai...
Boko Haram releases new video without embattled leader
Sep 14, 2016 (AFP)
The jihadist group Boko Haram has released a new video without its embattled leader Abubakar Shekau, lending weight to claims by the Nigerian army he had been g...
Ghanaian women look to drive stereotypes off the road
Sep 11, 2016 (AFP)
Faith Lawson carefully backs a large silver pick-up truck through cones placed on the red soil of a military camp in Ghana's capital, Accra. As she checks her m...
African fishers undertake highly risky expeditions to make a living
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Fishers in Central Africa often cover hundreds of miles in very basic boats without engines searching for food to feed their families and make a living, a new s...
COP22 host Morocco's mosques are going green
Sep 06, 2016 (AFP)
Two months before it hosts the COP22 climate conference, Morocco is preparing to launch an ambitious project to turn its mosques green as a commitment to clean ...
Mali defence minister fired after jihadists seize town: officials
Sep 03, 2016 (AFP)
Mali's defence minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly was fired Saturday, officials told AFP, a day after jihadists briefly took control of a town in the country's ce...
Corruption 'epidemic' in Tunisia: anti-graft chief
Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)
Graft in Tunisia has reached "epidemic" proportions, the head of the national anti-graft body INLC said on Tuesday, and urged the new government to eradicate th...
S.Sudan court martials 60 soldiers
Aug 29, 2016 (AFP)
Sixty South Sudanese soldiers have been tried before a court martial for alleged crimes committed during last month's fighting in the capital Juba, the army spo...
Conflict and drought threaten Mozambique's Gorongosa park
Aug 26, 2016 (AFP)
Passing through the aged faded gates into Gorongosa National Park, it's difficult to imagine you've just entered Mozambique's largest wildlife sanctuary. Bled d...
Boko Haram's Shekau 'wounded' in air strike: Nigeria
Aug 23, 2016 (AFP)
Nigeria's military claimed Tuesday to have seriously injured Boko Haram's elusive leader Abubakar Shekau and killed other commanders in an air strike on the Isl...
Initial agreement reached in Mozambique peace talks
Aug 17, 2016 (AFP)
Mozambique's government has agreed to a regional power-sharing deal with the main opposition party Renamo, representatives announced Wednesday, the first deal c...
Wanted Rwandan warlord's security chief held in DR Congo
Aug 14, 2016 (AFP)
The security chief of a Rwandan warlord wanted under an international warrant has been arrested in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a military spokesman sa...
Unprecedented Ethiopia protests far from over: analysts
Aug 10, 2016 (AFP)
Regional protests that began last year in Ethiopia have spread across the country, and despite successive crackdowns analysts say dissatisfaction with the autho...
South Sudan accepts deployment of regional force: IGAD
Aug 05, 2016 (AFP)
South Sudan on Friday accepted the deployment of a regional intervention force after escalating violence put a fragile peace deal in danger, the head of the Eas...
Libya unity government demands explanation over French troops
Jul 26, 2016 (AFP)
The head of Libya's unity government has asked for an official explanation from Paris about the presence of French troops in the conflict-ridden country, a stat...
US, Senegal troops wind up first-ever emergency exercise
Jul 26, 2016 (AFP)
Some 400 US and Senegalese troops on Tuesday wound up an unprecedented joint training exercise aimed at preparing for a possible emergency deployment of America...
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