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East DR Congo truce monitors to begin operations Tuesday
Nov 04, 2024 (AFP)
The largely ethnic Tutsi M23 rebel militia has seized swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east since 2021, displacing thousands while creatin...
UK FM Lammy vows 'new approach' ahead of Africa trip
Nov 03, 2024 (AFP)
"Our new approach will deliver respectful partnerships that listen rather than tell, deliver long-term growth rather than short-term solutions and build a freer...
Guinea junta chief promotes self to army general
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
Doumbouya, 43, seized power by force in September 2021 by overthrowing President Alpha Conde, who had placed the then-colonel in charge of an elite force tasked...
Chad denies anti-jihadist operation hit civilians
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
In response to a Boko Haram attack on a Chadian military base that killed at least 40 last week, Chad's army on Wednesday launched an airstrike pummelling Tilma...
New pro-army militia announces deployment in east Sudan
Oct 29, 2024 (AFP)
War erupted in Sudan in April 2023 between the regular armed forces led by the country's de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Suppo...
Not enough funding for DR Congo climate change fight: report
Oct 29, 2024 (AFP)
DRC, a nation five times the size of France, is home to more than 60 percent of the Congo Basin -- the world's second largest tropical rainforest. "The country,...
Mali army says killed dozens of 'terrorists'
Oct 27, 2024 (AFP)
Since taking power in a double coup in 2020 and 2021, Mali's military leaders have made a priority of tackling the Sahel nation's multiple security issues. An o...
Sundanese rebels kills over 120 in civil war; New pro-army militia in east Sudan; Mali army says killed dozens of 'terrorists'
Oct 26, 2024 (UPI)
The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces or RSF carried out the random attacks, reportedly against civilians in the village of al-Seraiha in Sudan's al-Gezira State Fr...
West African social media fizzes with pro-BRICS content
Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)
Talk of a "new world order" or "multipolar world" is regular fare on dozens of Facebook pages analysed by AFP across Sahel countries in west Africa -- most spre...
Activists say over 70 dead in two days of Sudan fighting
Oct 22, 2024 (AFP)
The strike wounded 27 people, including women and children, and left bodies "charred", according to the emergency response room (ERR) in Khartoum's south belt, ...
Chad president ousts top security officials
Oct 17, 2024 (AFP)
A presidential decree declared late Wednesday that the director generals of both the police and military police, the chiefs of general staff of the armed forces...
Mali junta chief promoted from colonel to general
Oct 16, 2024 (AFP)
Goita has led the central African state since two military coups in 2020 and 2021 as it faced a crisis over a mounting jihadist insurgency. The statement said t...
Two dead in Guinea protests against Chinese mining firm
Oct 14, 2024 (AFP)
Saturday's demonstration in Konkoi close to the Malian border also left four people injured, according to the Guinean Press Agency (AGP), while around 40 more w...
Sudan rescuers say air strike killed 23 in Khartoum market
Oct 13, 2024 (AFP)
The market is near one of the main camps in the Sudanese capital, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fighting the military as part of a...
Rising sea threatens to swallow Senegal coastal town
Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)
Cracked and collapsed walls, damaged roofs and sunken buildings are commonplace in the town just outside the capital Dakar, in one of the areas most threatened ...
Fear and anger: Lebanese in West Africa live war vicariously
Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)
Three of them tell AFP how they are living vicariously through the violence -- from Senegal's capital, Dakar, to the economic hub of Abidjan in Ivory Coast and ...
Ethiopia forces deploy against Amhara rebels
Oct 05, 2024 (AFP)
The Fano, a long-standing "self-defence" militia for the Amhara ethnic group, the second largest in Ethiopia, took up arms against the federal government in Apr...
'We don't want to die here': Sierra Leone migrants trapped in Lebanon
Oct 04, 2024 (AFP)
With a change of clothes stuffed into a plastic bag, the 27-year-old housekeeper told AFP that she and her cousin made their way to the capital Beirut in an amb...
Air strikes in Khartoum as Sudan army attacks paramilitary positions
Sep 26, 2024 (AFP)
The clashes began at dawn, several residents reported, in what appeared to be the army's first major offensive in months to regain parts of the capital controll...
Disappeared Guinea colonel announced dead: lawyer
Sep 25, 2024 (AFP)
Colonel Celestin Bilivogui is the second military officer in recent months to be pronounced dead in mysterious circumstances after being arrested under the junt...
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