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Gambian government says has foiled coup attempt

Dec 22, 2022 (AFP)

There was no immediate confirmation of the purported plot from other sources and the capital Banjul was calm. "Based on intelligence reports that some soldiers ...

Nigeria says 'collateral damage' in air strikes against gangs

Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)

The strikes were carried out on Saturday in the northwestern state of Zamfara, which is in the grip of so-called bandits notorious for attacks and ransom kidnap...

Youth of African diaspora consider climate solutions at US summit

Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)

They were gathered at the African and Diaspora Young Leaders Forum in Washington, held on the sidelines of the Biden administration's US-Africa Leaders Summit, ...

Rolling red carpet to Africans, US warns of 'destabilizing' China, Russia

Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)

Forty-nine African leaders flew into the Washington cold for the first continent-wide summit with the United States in eight years as President Joe Biden seeks ...

Rwanda leader says DR Congo bloodshed not his problem

Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)

"The problem was not created by Rwanda, and it is not Rwanda's problem. It is Congo's problem," Kagame told an audience off-site from the US-Africa Summit in Wa...

Uganda forces kill 11 ADF rebels after incursion

Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)

The Allied Democratic Forces -- which the Islamic State group claims as its Central African offshoot -- is accused of slaughtering thousands of Congolese civili...

Jihadist-hit Niger brings back former soldiers, police

Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)

The authorities began an operation on Monday aimed at mustering a thousand men, "who won't go directly to the front, but will be used to secure important sites"...

Biden tries to reboot US brand in Africa amid China, Russia inroads

Dec 11, 2022 (AFP)

The sequel took eight years -- the equivalent of two presidential terms -- but on Tuesday, Joe Biden will host a second US-Africa summit. Since 2014, China -- v...

Burkina Faso to raise 150 million euros for war fund

Dec 10, 2022 (AFP)

The fund "should enable us to raise 100 billion CFA for the year" 2023, Economy Minister Aboubacar Nacanabo said on Friday after talks with President Ibrahim Tr...

Outer space talks are a welcome addition to the US-Africa Leaders Summit

Dec 09, 2022 (SPX)

The focus will be on eight areas: economic engagement; peace, security and good governance; democracy and human rights; regional and global health security (inc...

12 killed in attack in northern Burkina Faso

Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)

The attack took place on Wednesday at Boala in the Centre-North region, two residents and a regional leader of the VDP volunteer force told AFP. "At least 10 vo...

Burkina Faso seeks French arms for anti-jihadist volunteers

Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)

Prime Minister Apollinaire Kielem de Tembela made the request on Tuesday in a meeting with French ambassador Luc Hallade, the premier's office said. He referred...

Mali lifts suspension of major news channel

Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)

The channel had on October 13 been put on notice over a September 30 editorial by Mohamed Halidou Attaher. On November 3, the High Authority for Communication (...

DR Congo army accuses M23 rebels of civilian massacre

Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)

In a statement, spokesman General Sylvain Ekenge said the M23 group was "carrying out massacres... the most recent of which is that of 50 Congolese civilians, h...

Four killed in Sao Tome's failed coup bid: state media

Nov 27, 2022 (AFP)

The military, which on Friday thwarted a coup bid in the tiny Portuguese-speaking archipelago off central Africa considered a beacon of democracy, announced "fo...

Experts warn against bringing rebels into army to end Congo fighting

Nov 24, 2022 (AFP)

A mostly Congolese Tutsi rebel group, the M23 has staged a raging comeback after laying dormant for years. Its combatants took up arms again in late 2021, claim...

Burkina Faso pounds patriotic drum in anti-jihadist fight

Nov 23, 2022 (AFP)

The authorities have been seeking 50,000 members for the Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP) -- an auxiliary force that supports the country's po...

Germany to pull troops from UN Mali mission by May 2024

Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)

The government will propose to parliament that Germany's commitment to the MINUSMA operation be extended "in May 2023 for the last time by a year, in order to b...

DR Congo sends warplanes against advancing M23 rebels

Nov 17, 2022 (AFP)

Tanks and two fighter jets targeted rebel positions in the town of Kibumba at noon, according to a resident who spoke to AFP via telephone from the region's mai...

Germany to pull troops from Mali by end 2023: govt source

Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)

"By the end of 2023 at the latest, German soldiers are to end their involvement in the UN blue helmet mission MINUSMA," the source said. Britain and Ivory Coast...