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DR Congo must protect civilians in Katanga ethnic strife: HRW
Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo must protect civilians from rival Bantu and Pygmy fighters in a conflict that has killed hundreds since 2013, Hu...
Nervous Burundians say quake portends all-out war
Aug 08, 2015 (AFP)
Already rattled by a political crisis that has claimed some 100 lives, many Burundians fear that Friday's earthquake portends the return of the brutal civil war...
Sierra Leone: 13 soldiers freed in alleged mutiny case
Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)
Thirteen Sierra Leone soldiers on trial over an alleged attempt to overthrow the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma have been acquitted by a court martia...
Ex-minister named head of Mali reconciliation committee: government
Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)
A former minister and member of the opposition was named head of Mali's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission as the west African country looks to streng...
UN peacekeeper shot dead in Central African Republic
Aug 02, 2015 (AFP)
A UN peacekeeping soldier was killed and eight other people injured in an attack by gunmen in the Central African Republic's capital Bangui, a military source s...
US envoy says 'patience has run out' over South Sudan
Jul 30, 2015 (AFP)
The US special envoy to South Sudan said Thursday that patience has run out over the country's civil war, pressing the message that the warring parties were run...
Nigerian army frees dozens of women, children from Boko Haram
Jul 28, 2015 (AFP)
Nigeria's army said Tuesday it had liberated 30 hostages held by Boko Haram, including 21 children and seven women, amid ongoing offensives against the extremis...
Burkina Faso on a tightrope ahead of key polls
Jul 26, 2015 (AFP)
A serious clash between Burkina Faso's presidential guard and the prime minister has left the west African nation on a political tightrope three months ahead of...
South Sudan mediators propose war crimes court
Jul 25, 2015 (AFP)
Negotiators have proposed establishing a court to try possible genocide and war crimes in South Sudan, in the latest power-sharing peace proposal hoped to end a...
At 83, Belgian strives to realise Congo wildlife dream
Jul 21, 2015 (AFP)
"I was already saying I'd go live in the Congo when I was nine or 10," says Willem Boulanger, who after satisfying that dream is embarking at age 83 on another ...
Kenya says Shebab militants killed in US drone strike in Somalia
Jul 16, 2015 (AFP)
At least 30 members of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants were killed in a US drone strike on Thursday, the Kenyan government said, while backtracki...
US condemns 'horrific' attacks by Boko Haram in Chad
Jul 14, 2015 (AFP)
The United States on Monday roundly condemned Boko Haram's "horrific and indiscriminate" attack targeting civilians in Chad, as well as recent assaults elsewher...
Nigeria's Buhari sacks top military chiefs
Jul 13, 2015 (AFP)
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday sacked his entire military top brass, his spokesman said, in a widely expected move as he wrestles with an insurge...
At least 11 dead in twin suicide bombing in Cameroon
Jul 13, 2015 (AFP)
At least 11 people were killed when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up near an army camp in troubled northern Cameroon in an attack blamed on Boko Ha...
South Sudan: four years of freedom, 18 months of war
Jul 08, 2015 (AFP)
The world's youngest nation South Sudan marks four years of independence on July 9, after separating from old foe Sudan following decades of war. A civil war in...
Burkina's leader mediates spat between presidential guard, PM
Jul 02, 2015 (AFP)
Burkina Faso's president on Wednesday was scrambling to solve the rumbling conflict between Prime Minister Isaac Zida and the presidential guard, which is pushi...
Water point 'bank machines' boost Kenya slums
Jul 01, 2015 (AFP)
Around the world people use bank machines to access cash: but in the Kenyan capital's crowded slums, people now use similar machines to access an even more basi...
Somali Shebab attack army camp killing several
Jun 29, 2015 (AFP)
Several Somali soldiers were killed overnight Sunday when Shebab fighters attacked a base in the southern Kismayo region, officials and witnesses said Monday. T...
Three Mali soldiers killed in jihadist attack
Jun 27, 2015 (AFP)
Three Malian soldiers died Saturday in a jihadist attack on the southwestern town of Nara, on the Mauritania border, with several Islamist fighters also killed,...
Uganda's 'Uber for motorcycle taxis' shows it pays to be safe
Jun 24, 2015 (AFP)
When Silver Tumwesigye, a sharply-dressed Ugandan motorbike taxi driver known by his nickname 'Silverstone,' had an accident six years ago it was a double blow....
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