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Niger says 2.5 million suffering food insecurity
Apr 19, 2015 (AFP)
More than 2.5 million people in Niger are suffering from food insecurity because of a shortfall in the cereal harvest due to bad weather and crop pests, the agr...
Billion dollar ivory and gold trade fuelling DR Congo war: UN
Apr 17, 2015 (AFP)
Smuggling of ivory, gold and timber worth over a billion dollars a year is fuelling war by funding dozens of rebel groups in Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN ...
Holdout Mali rebels refuse to initial peace accord
Apr 11, 2015 (AFP)
Holdout rebels in Mali have refused to initial a peace deal agreed by other armed groups and the government, saying they could not accept the accord "in its cur...
Nigerian president quits voting station after tech glitch
Mar 28, 2015 (AFP)
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan turned up Saturday to accredit himself and his wife Patience for his re-election bid but problems with new voting technolo...
Pygmies demand end to discrimination in DR Congo
Mar 27, 2015 (AFP)
Pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo used the forum offered by a festival of indigenous peoples Friday to demand protection against discrimination by oth...
Regional troops retake Nigerian town from Boko Haram
Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)
Chad and Niger troops have recaptured the northeastern Nigerian town of Gachagar from Boko Haram, as part of a regional offensive to combat the Islamist insurge...
Gun drills and discipline at S.Africa anti-poaching school
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
Gripping a semi-automatic rifle in his muscular right hand, anti-poaching instructor Simon Rood berates his students for not taking their gun lessons seriously....
Nigerian army chief vows crackdown on election unrest
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
The head of Nigeria's army on Wednesday vowed a violent crackdown on election-related unrest, as security tightened before this weekend's presidential and parli...
E. Guinea's president warns of 'serious terrorist' threat to country
Mar 20, 2015 (AFP)
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea has warned of "serious and adequate information" that his small central African country faces a terrorist t...
DRCongo, UN Security Council at loggerheads over troop drawdown
Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)
The Democratic Republic of Congo demanded the speedy removal of thousands of peacekeepers Thursday, insisting at a UN Security Council meeting that Kinshasa is ...
Mali rebels hopeful of 'decisive' meeting on peace deal
Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)
Mali's Tuareg-led rebels voiced hope Tuesday that their next meeting with international mediators would prove "decisive" for a peace deal that has been stalled ...
Mali rebels ask to meet mediators to improve peace deal
Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)
Mali's Tuareg-led rebels called Monday for a meeting with Algerian mediators to "improve" a proposed peace deal with the government in Bamako, describing the ac...
UN probe finds 'ruthless repression', rights abuses in Eritrea
Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)
Eritrea's government is using the country's stand-off with arch-foe Ethiopia as a "pretext" to commit a litany of rights violations and ruthlessly repress oppos...
SA mercenaries in Nigeria: apartheid-era veterans still finding work
Mar 13, 2015 (AFP)
South Africa was one of the first countries in the world to ban mercenaries but remains a major supplier of military instructors, some of them from the time of ...
US strike targets Shebab militant in Somalia
Mar 13, 2015 (AFP)
The US military has carried out an air strike against an al-Shebab militant in Somalia and is checking whether the senior figure was killed in the operation, th...
Sierra Leone war criminal returned from Rwandan jail
Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)
A Sierra Leone militia commander convicted of civil war atrocities and jailed in Rwanda was returned Thursday to serve out his sentence at home, a UN-backed cou...
France to boost Sahel troops to help Boko Haram fight
Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)
France will boost its military presence in the troubled Sahel region of Africa where jihadist groups operate to support the fight against Boko Haram, Defence Mi...
UN black-lists seven DR Congo officers
Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)
The United Nations has blacklisted seven officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo who pose a "real risk" of committing grave rights violations, a report sai...
Mali rebels begin talks to mull peace deal
Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)
Mali's Tuareg-led rebels met Wednesday in the northeast of the country to decide whether to sign a peace deal already accepted by the government and smaller arm...
France begins troop drawdown in Central African Republic
Mar 05, 2015 (AFP)
France announced on Thursday it was reducing its troop numbers in the Central African Republic as it gradually hands over to a 8,500-strong UN peacekeeping forc...
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