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Kenya ivory amnesty ahead of record-breaking tusk burning

Mar 30, 2016 (AFP)

Kenya on Wednesday launched a three-week amnesty to hand in ivory and rhino horn ahead of the world's biggest burning of ivory next month. The mass burning, the...

France to end military operation in C.Africa this year

Mar 30, 2016 (AFP)

France will end its military intervention in the Central African Republic this year as it has achieved its objectives of restoring security to the country after...

Government boycotts Mali peace forum in restive north

Mar 29, 2016 (AFP)

Former rebels in Mali held a failed reconciliation forum in their northern bastion of Kidal which was boycotted by the government, as the UN warned of an "alarm...

Nigerian troops free 800 Boko Haram hostages: army

Mar 25, 2016 (AFP)

Nigerian troops have freed more than 800 people held by Boko Haram Islamist fighters in multiple villages in the country's restive northeast, the army said Thur...

Burundi soldier kills colonel blamed in crackdown: source

Mar 22, 2016 (AFP)

A Burundian army officer accused of leading a crackdown on opposition forces was shot dead at army headquarters on Tuesday, military sources told AFP. Lieutenan...

Niger president scores landslide win in boycotted run-off

Mar 22, 2016 (AFP)

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou secured 92 percent of the vote in a controversial run-off ballot boycotted by the opposition, according to official results...

65 Shebab insurgents killed in NE Somalia: army

Mar 21, 2016 (AFP)

Somalia security forces have killed 65 Shebab Islamic insurgents who attacked coastal towns in the semi-autonomous Puntland area in the country's northeast, the...

Kenya army says killed 34 Shebab in Somalia firefights

Mar 20, 2016 (AFP)

The Kenyan military said Sunday it killed 34 Islamic insurgents in two separate battles in neighbouring Somalia this weekend. Military spokesman David Obonyo sa...

China and Gambia resume diplomatic ties: ministry

Mar 17, 2016 (AFP)

Taiwan faces increasing diplomatic isolation after China announced Thursday it will resume ties with the island's former ally Gambia. China suspended relations ...

Nigeria's ex-defence chief raided staff salary funds to buy property, court told

Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)

Nigeria's former chief of defence staff bought property including a $5.5 million mansion with air force money, passing off his fraudulent withdrawals as staff s...

Bank of China gains foothold in Morocco

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

Bank of China has established a presence in Morocco that will further reinforce the Asian nation's far-reaching influence in resource-rich Africa, officials sai...

Seven dead in clashes in Africa's oldest wildlife reserve in DR Congo

Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)

Two park rangers and five militiamen were killed in clashes in Africa's oldest wildlife reserve, the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park famed ...

Three key start-ups from Africa's top science forum

Mar 13, 2016 (AFP)

From disease-fighting drones to wristbands bearing health data for expectant mothers -- African entrepreneurs pitched ideas to overhaul everything from healthca...

South African soldier killed in Sudan's Darfur region

Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)

A South African soldier died Wednesday when his unit in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region was ambushed while escorting food supplies for a UN agency, an army st...

Nigerian Army Council clears Boko Haram arms officer

Mar 04, 2016 (AFP)

A senior Nigerian officer jailed for allowing weapons to fall into the hands of Boko Haram Islamists has had his sentence quashed, according to an Army Council ...

Rwanda prosecutors demand 22 years in jail in sedition trial

Mar 02, 2016 (AFP)

Rwandan prosecution lawyers called for 22-year jail sentences Wednesday against two senior military figures on trial for inciting rebellion against the central ...

S.African private army protects world's largest rhino farm

Mar 02, 2016 (AFP)

The world's largest rhino farm looks like a vast fortress and is guarded by a private army. At night a helicopter fitted with an infrared camera circles over th...

Kenyan cops busted with illegal ivory

Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)

Four Kenyan policemen were to be charged with illegal possession of ivory at a Nairobi court Tuesday, the government's wildlife agency said in a statement. The ...

US top brass urge tighter W. Africa response to Islamist threat

Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)

West Africa's armed forces, police and governments need to ramp up cross-border links to contain Islamist groups now increasingly staging spectacular attacks on...

Voice of China: Beijing seeks African friends and influence

Feb 24, 2016 (AFP)

Senegalese reporter Amadou Sarra Ba is one of hundreds of African journalists to have enjoyed all-expenses-paid trips to China courtesy of the Communist Party, ...