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Sudanese trek through mountains to escape Kordofan fighting
Dec 31, 2025 (AFP)
"We left everything behind," said the 47-year-old, who escaped with his family of seven from Keiklek, near the South Sudanese border. "Our animals and our unhar...
Ivory Coast ruling party set for election landslide: early results
Dec 28, 2025 (AFP)
The voting, carried out on Saturday, was marked by a poor turn-out following a boycott call by opposition parties. The election came two months after 83-year-ol...
UN urges end to arbitrary detentions in Guinea-Bissau
Dec 26, 2025 (AFP)
The six people freed were close associates of Domingos Simoes Pereira, head of the PAIGC party that led Guinea-Bissau to independence from Portugal in 1974. Per...
Nigeria signals more strikes likely in 'joint' US operations
Dec 26, 2025 (AFP)
The west African country faces multiple interlinked security crises, with jihadists waging an insurgency in the northeast since 2009 and armed "bandit" gangs ra...
Wagner stronghold in CAR holds the line despite Kremlin shakeup
Dec 23, 2025 (AFP)
The Russian embassy in Bangui called the work of a local artist that also features President Faustin-Archange Touadera and CAR military officers "a sign of our ...
Sudan's El-Fasher under the RSF, destroyed and 'full of bodies'
Dec 19, 2025 (AFP)
The Rapid Support Forces, battling Sudan's military since April 2023, seized the army's last stronghold in Darfur on October 26 in a bloody offensive marked by ...
Benin president says bulk of military not behind failed coup
Dec 18, 2025 (AFP)
"No significant segment of the army joined" the attempted coup of December 7, which saw a group of soldiers claim on national television that they had deposed t...
200 W.African troops aiding Benin in post-coup 'clean-up': govt
Dec 11, 2025 (AFP)
The small west African nation was rocked by a failed putsch Sunday, which saw Nigeria, France and Ivory Coast mobilise in support of the civilian government. "T...
Benin hunts soldiers behind failed coup
Dec 09, 2025 (AFP)
At least a dozen plotters had been arrested and by Monday all hostages, including high-ranking officers, had been released, according to loyalist military sourc...
Why west African troops overturned Benin's coup but watched others pass by
Dec 09, 2025 (AFP)
West Africa has seen a series of coups over the past five years, leaving critics to cast the regional political bloc ECOWAS as having little more than stern com...
'Several' deaths in thwarted Benin coup: government
Dec 09, 2025 (AFP)
Early Sunday, "violent clashes" erupted between the coup plotters and the Republican Guard at the Cotonou residence of President Patrice Talon, resulting in "ca...
G.Bissau junta says coup leader barred from running for president
Dec 09, 2025 (AFP)
After ousting outgoing leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo on November 26 in the wake of the presidential vote, the army suspended the electoral process and announced i...
Benin president says situation 'under control' after coup attempt
Dec 08, 2025 (AFP)
A group of soldiers announced Sunday on state television that they had ousted President Patrice Talon. That sparked a swift response from loyal army forces, joi...
Burkina Faso releases 8 NGO members arrested for 'spying'
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
Burkina Faso's military junta, which seized power in a September 2022 coup, revoked the authorisation of 21 NGOs working in the country in July, including the N...
Unchecked mining waste taints DR Congo communities
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
Global powers, notably China and the United States, are in a race to extract strategic minerals in the DRC, which supplies more than 70 percent of the world's c...
'Only a miracle can end this nightmare': Eritreans fear new Ethiopia war
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
"If the war starts, many people will go to the front and, as before, many children will lose their fathers, mothers will lose their husbands, parents will lose ...
Ghana e waste workers trapped in toxic survival trade off
Dec 05, 2025 (SPX)
The study notes that the world discards about 62 million tons of electronic waste every year, yet under a quarter of this material passes through regulated, for...
G.Bissau junta claims 'ethnic civil war' risk justifies coup
Dec 04, 2025 (AFP)
After toppling sitting president Umaro Sissoco Embalo on November 26, the junta originally alleged drug barons were conspiring to sow chaos in the country, a ho...
Amnesty urges war crimes probe into Sudan refugee camp attack
Dec 03, 2025 (AFP)
The RSF, fighting Sudan's army since April 2023, "deliberately killed civilians, took hostages, pillaged and destroyed mosques, schools and health clinics" duri...
Sudan army chief's Islamist ties complicate peace efforts
Dec 03, 2025 (AFP)
The camp has seen its influence grow since the start of the war, supplying fighters and shaping the strategy of de facto leader Burhan, who since April 2023 has...
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