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Russia vowed 'unstinting support' after end of UN mission: Mali
Jun 30, 2023 (AFP)
Moscow's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "renewed his country's unstinting support towards Mali in the military-technical field as well as for humanitarian and e...
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...
Drone strikes hit Wagner base in Libya: military source
Jun 30, 2023 (AFP)
The origin of the overnight strikes on the Al-Kharruba airbase, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of Benghazi, was "unknown", the official said, speakin...
Under pressure from Mali junta, UN ends peacekeeping mission
Jun 30, 2023 (AFP)
Bowing to the principle that peacekeepers need the consent of the host government, the Security Council voted unanimously to start immediately winding down the ...
UN vote to end Mali peacekeeping mission delayed
Jun 28, 2023 (AFP)
Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop took the world by surprise on June 16 when he asked the UN to withdraw its Minusma peacekeeping force immediately. While ...
Air strikes, artillery, killings in Sudan as aid stalls
Jun 24, 2023 (AFP)
While fighting rages, relief efforts have stalled after more than two months of fighting between rival generals. Houses in Khartoum shook from the fighting that...
Zambia creditors agree to restructure debt
Jun 23, 2023 (AFP)
In a tweet, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema said the country had "reached an agreement on a debt treatment with our official creditors", calling it a "sign...
Libya says arrests 50 Chinese in crackdown on crypto mining
Jun 22, 2023 (AFP)
Interior ministry agents searching a farm in Zliten, some 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of the capital, found "minors exploiting significant material capacity...
UN calls for help for 'traumatized, hungry' Somalis
Jun 22, 2023 (AFP)
More than 6.6 million people, or a third of the population, are expected to face crisis or worse levels of hunger this year, Cindy McCain told the UN Security C...
Somalis search for love online, but don't call it dating
Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)
Just don't call it a dating app. Guurdoon ("seeking marriage" in English) was launched in October last year by the Guryosamo family development centre, whose ch...
Syrian leaders, Congolese rebels hit with UK sanctions
Jun 19, 2023 (AFP)
The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said Ali Mahmoud Abbas and Abdel Karim Mahmoud Ibrahim would be subject to asset freezes and travel bans....
New truce between Sudan's warring generals takes effect
Jun 18, 2023 (AFP)
The army, commanded by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has since April 15 been battling the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), headed by his former deputy Mohamed...
Sudan warring generals agree new truce after fighting intensifies
Jun 18, 2023 (AFP)
Air strikes killed 17 civilians, including five children, in the capital Saturday, a citizens' group said, as medics in Chad reported hundreds of wounded from D...
Minusma: Mali's controversial peacekeeping mission
Jun 17, 2023 (AFP)
The African nation's military rulers had increasingly imposed operational restrictions on the peacekeepers, ultimately accusing the mission on Friday of not onl...
South Africa's Ramaphosa tells Putin Ukraine 'war must be settled'
Jun 17, 2023 (AFP)
His delegation put forward a set of principles that the Kremlin deemed "very difficult to implement", a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ruled o...
Sudan war intensifies with Khartoum air strikes, heavy Darfur casualties
Jun 17, 2023 (AFP)
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed to have shot down a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) fighter plane. A military source, not authorised to speak to...
Intercommunal forums seek to end deadly violence in Niger
Jun 16, 2023 (AFP)
Their mission: to organise forums in a bid to ease community tensions revived by massacres of civilians in the landlocked West African nation. In the past, disp...
West Darfur governor assassinated as Sudan's war enters third month
Jun 15, 2023 (UPI)
Khamis Abdullah Abakar, governor of West Darfur, was killed Wednesday after stating in a telephone interview with AL-Hadath TV that the RSF and aligned Arab mil...
AI, Africa and climate crisis star at Art Basel fair
Jun 14, 2023 (AFP)
The giant annual event in the Swiss border city of Basel, which aims to reflect current trends in the contemporary world, begins with private viewings for wealt...
Mali junta leader discusses security, economy with Putin
Jun 14, 2023 (AFP)
During the phone talks, "at the initiative of the Malian side", the two leaders paid "particular attention" to trade and economic relations, including the deliv...
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