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Air strikes, combat as one-week Sudan truce officially starts
May 23, 2023 (AFP)
They reported combat in north Khartoum, and air strikes in the east of the capital shortly after 9:45 pm (1945 GMT) Monday night when the truce was to take effe...
Zimbabwe holds talks over plan to take half carbon credit revenue
May 22, 2023 (AFP)
The environment and climate ministry said in an advisory that a meeting was planned for Monday evening in Harare to discuss the carbon credit framework, but gav...
Private media boycott Guinea junta over restrictions
May 22, 2023 (AFP)
The move includes television and radio stations, newspapers and news websites who declared Telecommunications Minister Ousmane Gaoual Diallo the "enemy of the G...
Air strikes shake Khartoum as Sudan rivals agree 1-week ceasefire
May 20, 2023 (AFP)
With heavy fighting raging in Khartoum, the rival sides struck a deal on a seven-day ceasefire beginning the evening of May 22, the United States and Saudi Arab...
Fake nails, fuel and influencers in Kenyan taxman's sights
May 19, 2023 (AFP)
They are all being targeted by Kenya's taxman in a raft of new proposals aimed at filling the coffers of President William Ruto's cash-strapped government. Ruto...
33 civilians killed in Burkina Faso 'terrorist' attack
May 14, 2023 (AFP)
A state of emergency has been in force in eight of Burkina Faso's 13 regions since March, including in western Boucle du Mouhoun. The attack on the farmers happ...
Blasts rock Khartoum as warring sides affirm humanitarian pledge
May 13, 2023 (AFP)
A witness in west Khartoum reported army air strikes on paramilitary forces, as brutal urban warfare continued in Sudan's densely-populated capital. More than 7...
Sudan warring sides make humanitarian pledge without truce
May 12, 2023 (AFP)
Nearly one month after the outbreak of the fighting that has killed more than 750 people and displaced hundreds of thousands, the two sides signed the agreement...
Algeria says army officer killed in clash with Islamists
May 11, 2023 (AFP)
The captain died Wednesday during the operation to capture "a group of terrorists" in the wooded region of Tissemsilt, a ministry statement said. Four jihadists...
Soldier, 4 militants killed in attack near DR Congo capital
May 11, 2023 (AFP)
So-called "Mobondo" attacked the village of Nguma at 5 a.m., army spokesman Sylvain Ekenge said, using a name for a militia from the Yaka community. Four milita...
Six troops killed in rare west Mali attack: local sources
May 10, 2023 (AFP)
The troops died on Monday near the town of Kita, 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the capital Bamako, a police source said, without specifying the nature of the a...
East DR Congo fishing town struggles as checkpoints, militias proliferate
May 10, 2023 (AFP)
The isolated fishing town lies on the shore of Lake Edward in eastern DR Congo, reached at the end of some 150 kilometres (90 miles) of road and track from the ...
Mali junta faces fresh opposition to draft constitution
May 08, 2023 (AFP)
Constitutional reform is the first major step in the military's plans to justify continuing to govern until 2024, following the overthrow of former president Ib...
Southern African Nations to Deploy Troops in DR Congo as Search for Missing Continues
May 08, 2023 (AFP)
Congolese government spokesman Patrick Muyaya confirmed the death toll provided by the administrator of Kalehe territory in South Kivu province, where villages ...
Airstrikes rock Sudan as truce talks yield no breakthrough
May 08, 2023 (AFP)
Sudan was thrown into deadly chaos when fighting broke out on April 15 between the forces of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival Moham...
UN aid chief in Saudi for Sudan talks as fighting flares
May 07, 2023 (AFP)
Multiple truce deals have been declared, without effect, since fighting erupted between army and paramilitary forces on April 15 in the poverty-stricken country...
Air raids in Sudan capital ahead of first direct talks
May 06, 2023 (AFP)
Hundreds of people have been killed since the outbreak of the conflict on April 15 between Sudan's de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who leads the regular...
Mali junta to hold vote on new constitution in June
May 05, 2023 (AFP)
The referendum had been scheduled for March 19 but was postponed indefinitely as the impoverished Sahel state battles jihadist and separatist insurgencies that ...
Africa eyes potential bounty from space
May 04, 2023 (AFP)
Ivory Coast, which recently hosted a "NewSpace Africa" conference organised by the African Union, has announced the creation of a space agency and plans to buil...
Rwanda counts cost after floods, landslides kill 130
May 04, 2023 (AFP)
The government was still counting the cost as families buried their dead in the aftermath of one of the worst such natural disasters in years in the hilly East ...
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