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French defence minister in Mali visit to shore up peace deal
Jun 23, 2015 (AFP)
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited Mali on Monday to show his support for a landmark peace deal agreed in the former colony to end years of unre...
Clashes in Ghana over slum clearance initiative
Jun 22, 2015 (AFP)
Protesters from one of Ghana's biggest slums clashed with police in the capital Accra on Monday, after city authorities demolished shanties as part of measures ...
Mali's Tuareg-led rebels sign landmark peace deal
Jun 20, 2015 (AFP)
Mali's Tuareg-led rebel alliance signed a landmark deal on Saturday to end years of unrest in a nation riven by ethnic divisions and in the grip of a jihadist i...
Three DR Congo guards shot dead while protecting elephants
Jun 19, 2015 (AFP)
Two Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers and a wildlife conservation guard have been shot dead in Garamba National Park while attempting to protect elephants f...
Chad war planes bomb Boko Haram after attacks
Jun 18, 2015 (AFP)
Chad said Thursday its warplanes bombed Boko Haram positions in neighbouring Nigeria to avenge twin suicide bombings in the capital this week blamed on the jiha...
Pro-government fighters refuse to quit key town in Mali
Jun 17, 2015 (AFP)
Loyalist militias are refusing to withdraw from a flashpoint town in northern Mali, they said Wednesday, violating a condition for the rebel alliance's commitme...
Mali rebels explain peace accord to refugees in Mauritania
Jun 12, 2015 (AFP)
Leaders of Mali's Tuareg-led rebel alliance visited Malian refugees in Mauritania on Friday to explain a decision to sign a peace agreement with the government,...
Mali troops get reacquainted with lost north
Jun 10, 2015 (AFP)
For Malian troops making their first forays into the country's north since jihadists took control, French military support provides reassurance at a time when t...
Boko Haram fight HQ shifting to Maiduguri: Nigeria military
Jun 08, 2015 (AFP)
Nigeria's military on Monday said it had begun shifting the command centre for its battle against Boko Haram from the capital to the northeastern city of Maidug...
The Kenyan town kept afloat by a foreign army
Jun 06, 2015 (AFP)
Alphonse 'Junior' Mutiso, the 32-year-old proprietor of 'Cpt John Cooks Curio Shop' in Nanyuki, Kenya, is an expert in British military badges. "There are the R...
I. Coast's former colonial capital looks to the future on centenary
Jun 05, 2015 (AFP)
Grand-Bassam's ornate colonial buildings are a striking symbol of France's onetime rule over Ivory Coast, but officials in the former capital say its glory days...
Mali's Tuareg-led rebels to sign peace deal June 20: chief
Jun 05, 2015 (AFP)
The head of Mali's main Tuareg-led rebel groups said Friday his movement will sign a final peace deal on June 20 to end the conflict in the west African nation....
Probe Nigeria military top brass for war crimes: Amnesty
Jun 03, 2015 (AFP)
Amnesty International said Wednesday there was sufficient evidence for the International Criminal Court to probe senior Nigerian officers for war crimes in the ...
Nigerian leader vows to look into Amnesty report alleging army war crimes
Jun 03, 2015 (AFP)
Nigeria's new president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday promised to look into an Amnesty International report urging the International Criminal Court to probe s...
Gunmen launch deadly raid on airport depot in DR Congo
Jun 02, 2015 (AFP)
At least one soldier and a gunman were killed overnight when a gang raided the Goma airport in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during an apparent robbery, ...
Regional powers launch new South Sudan peace effort
Jun 01, 2015 (AFP)
A fresh bid to end 17 months of civil war in South Sudan was launched by regional powers on Monday with a push to reconcile the country's president and rebel le...
Head of Mali's main Tuareg-led rebels hopeful on peace deal
May 31, 2015 (AFP)
The head of Mali's main Tuareg-led rebel groups on Sunday said he was convinced that consultations underway in Algeria to finalise a peace agreement with the Ba...
French soldiers stalked by invisible enemy in Mali
May 30, 2015 (AFP)
Based in Mali's inhospitable northern desert, French troops are waging an attritional campaign against a ghost-like, invisible enemy -- a master in the guerrill...
UN rights chief seeks wider probe into C.Africa peacekeeper abuses
May 30, 2015 (AFP)
The UN human rights chief said Saturday he had asked several countries to probe allegations of rape and killings by their troops in the Central African Republic...
Spain approves permanent US base for Africa force: official
May 29, 2015 (AFP)
The Spanish government said on Friday it had approved an agreement to host a permanent force of 2,200 US Marines for deployment on missions to Africa. Spain and...
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