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Niger military chief backs coup leaders, but president defiant
Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)
The latest target of a coup in the turbulent Sahel, President Mohamed Bazoum has been confined at his residence since Wednesday by members of his presidential g...
Rockets hit Khartoum, air force base attacked
Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)
Residents reported "heavy artillery shelling" and fighter jets overhead the northwest of the city, while drones belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forc...
16 killed as homes hit in Khartoum air, artillery strikes
Jul 25, 2023 (AFP)
After more than 100 days of war, the latest bombardments added to a toll of at least 3,900 killed nationwide. "Sixteen citizens died today in this senseless war...
US blacklists officials who helped Wagner Group enter Mali
Jul 25, 2023 (UPI)
The U.S. departments of State and Treasury named Col. Sadio Camara, Col. Alou Boi Diarra and Lit. Col. Adama Bagayoko for sanctions Monday based on evidence tha...
China envoy calls Kenya economic ties a 'win-win'
Jul 24, 2023 (AFP)
Kenya and China have "become good friends with mutual trust in politics and good partners with win-win economic cooperation", according to the statement from th...
CORRECTED: China envoy calls Kenya economic ties a 'win-win'
Jul 24, 2023 (AFP)
Kenya and China have "become good friends with mutual trust in politics and good partners with win-win economic cooperation", according to the statement from th...
Rights group says Mali army and foreign fighters executed civilians
Jul 24, 2023 (AFP)
HRW said the abuses had been committed since late 2022 "during military operations in response to the presence of Islamist armed groups" in several towns in cen...
Mali junta chief brings in new constitution amid protests
Jul 22, 2023 (AFP)
The military leaders have made the constitution a cornerstone for the rebuilding of Mali, which is facing the spread of jihadism and a deep, multi-faceted crisi...
Nigeria army reinforces security in troubled central state
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
Plateau State has been struggling since May with a surge in clashes and raids between communities of Muslim nomadic herders and mostly Christian pastoral farmer...
Fighting in Sudan's capital, south after generals briefly surface
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
"Artillery fire targeted paramilitary bases of the Rapid Support Forces," said a resident of El-Obeid, 350 kilometres (220 miles) southwest of Khartoum. Fightin...
Chinese man convicted in Malawi over racist videos
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
A judge in the African nation's capital of Lilongwe handed Lu Ke, 27, a 12-month sentence after the man found guilty of procuring children to take part in enter...
Germany, Mali agree 'smooth' pullout of UN-backed troops
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
Mali's defence minister Sadio Camara assured his German counterpart Boris Pistorius in a telephone call of Bamako's "support with the relocation of the troops",...
China's Wang to visit SAfrica, Nigeria, Kenya and Turkey
Jul 19, 2023 (AFP)
"Wang Yi will attend the 13th BRICS high representatives' meeting on security affairs in Johannesburg from July 24 to 25, and visit Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa...
Sudan violence rages as paramilitaries deny Darfur war crimes
Jul 16, 2023 (AFP)
In the capital's east and northwest, army fighter jets "targeted bases" belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who "responded with anti-aircra...
Britain sanctions Sudanese companies accused of fueling conflict
Jul 12, 2023 (UPI)
The sanctions target six companies, three connected to the Sudaneses Armed Forces and three to the breakaway Rapid Support Forces, some of which were blackliste...
U.N. warns death of peacekeeper in Central African Republic may be 'war crime'
Jul 11, 2023 (UPI)
A peacekeeper from Rwanda was killed Monday when his unit came under attack by members of an unidentified armed group while patrolling around the town of Sam-Ou...
UN warns Sudan faces 'full-scale civil war' as air raid kills 22
Jul 10, 2023 (AFP)
The health ministry reported "22 dead and a large number of wounded among the civilians" from what it described as an air strike Saturday on Khartoum's sister c...
Regional monetary union lifts Mali suspension
Jul 09, 2023 (AFP)
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) came to the decision during an extraordinary session held in Guinea-Bissau on Saturday, it said in the comm...
AU force in Somalia completes first phase of drawdown
Jul 01, 2023 (AFP)
The African Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) said in a statement dated Friday that a total of seven bases had been handed over to Somali security forces,...
Pullout of UN peacekeepers from Mali leaves security void
Jun 30, 2023 (AFP)
The UN Security Council's vote on Friday to end at Bamako's request the decade-old peacekeeping operation, known as Minusma, triggers the departure of more than...
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