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Suspected Lesotho coup leader accused of breaking peace deal

Nov 06, 2014 (AFP)

A top Lesotho defence official has urged regional powers to "remove" an influential military commander for flouting a peace deal meant to stabilise the tiny Afr...

Burkina army wants to hand over power within two weeks: unions

Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)

Burkina Faso's army wants to hand over power within two weeks, labour unions said Tuesday, as international pressure mounted on the country's military rulers fo...

Kenyan troops kill six after 'machete attack' on barracks

Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)

The Kenyan army said it had repelled a machete attack on a military barracks in a tourist resort near Mombasa on Sunday, killing six assailants. About a dozen y...

French forces engaged in large-scale operation in Mali: army

Oct 30, 2014 (AFP)

Fighting between French military forces and jihadists continued overnight in northern Mali where soldiers are carrying out a large-scale operation, the army sai...

Thirty adolescents abducted in northeast Nigeria: local chief

Oct 26, 2014 (AFP)

Around 30 adolescents -- some of them girls aged as young as 11 -- have been abducted in northeast Nigeria over the weekend by suspected Boko Haram rebels, a lo...

Secret talks to end Lesotho military standoff

Oct 23, 2014 (AFP)

South Africa's deputy president has held secret talks with a renegade Lesotho military commander, a defence official told AFP on Thursday, as an offer of partia...

Nigeria tries 59 soldiers on mutiny charges

Oct 15, 2014 (AFP)

Fifty-nine Nigerian soldiers appeared before a military tribunal on Wednesday charged with mutiny and conspiracy to commit mutiny over claims that they refused ...

Horn free: Lagos tries to tackle noise pollution

Oct 15, 2014 (AFP)

Nigeria's chaotic megacity Lagos on Wednesday sought to impose a one-day ban on the use of the car horn, hoping to raise awareness about damaging noise pollutio...

Cameroon vows to 'totally wipe out' Boko Haram after hostages' release

Oct 13, 2014 (AFP)

Cameroon's President Paul Biya on Monday vowed his government would go after the Islamist group Boko Haram "until it's totally wiped out". He made the promise a...

Six UN peacekeepers injured in C. Africa

Oct 11, 2014 (AFP)

Six UN peacekeepers were injured during an attack by unknown assailants who opened fire on a patrol northeast of the capital Bangui, amid a flareup of violence ...

27 Chinese and local hostages released in Cameroon: govt

Oct 11, 2014 (AFP)

Ten Chinese and 17 local hostages have been released in Cameroon, where they were kidnapped earlier this year in raids blamed on the Nigerian Islamist group Bok...

Dhlakama: Mozambique's comeback kid rides election wave

Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)

Mozambique's former rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama is pulling huge crowds on his presidential election campaign, to the surprise of observers who wrote him off af...

Obama maintains child soldier sanctions against Myanmar

Sep 30, 2014 (AFP)

President Barack Obama has decided to keep Myanmar on the list of nations that are subject to US sanctions over its use of child soldiers. The decision, announc...

Whistleblower phone app seeks to outsmart corruption

Sep 28, 2014 (AFP)

Douglas Buule, a teacher at Kiwenda primary, a government school outside Uganda's capital Kampala, has a recurring problem. "The money used to access the chalk ...

C.Africa president calls for lifting UN arms embargo

Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)

Central African Republic President Catherine Samba-Panza called Saturday for lifting a UN arms embargo on her country to allow the military forces to be equippe...

Gunmen kidnap Chinese national in central Nigeria: police

Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)

Gunmen kidnapped a Chinese national from his residence in central Nigeria's Kogi state, police said on Wednesday, vowing to track down the attackers and free th...

'Much to be done' for DR Congo to meet peace deal: NGOs

Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)

The Democratic Republic of Congo still has a long way to go to meet its pledges under a peace deal agreed last year, 10 Congolese NGOs said on Wednesday. The ac...

UN officially takes over peacekeeping operations in C. Africa

Sep 15, 2014 (AFP)

A new UN mission on Monday officially took charge of peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic, with the tough task of ending ethnic and religious...

Obama to discuss Ebola response with top medical experts

Sep 12, 2014 (AFP)

President Barack Obama will meet leading US medical experts next week as he considers how to follow through on his pledge to step up aid to Africa over the Ebol...

Mozambique rebel leader to hit the campaign trail

Sep 11, 2014 (AFP)

Days after coming out of hiding to sign a peace deal with the government, Mozambican rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama said he was ready to start campaigning for Oct...