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Eritrea calls up armed forces after Ethiopia clashes: UK, Canada
Sep 18, 2022 (AFP)
The return to combat last month shattered a March truce and dashed hopes of peacefully resolving the nearly two-year war between Ethiopian authorities and the T...
Priests kidnapped, church burned in Cameroon attack
Sep 18, 2022 (AFP)
The church of St Mary in the village of Nchang was "burned by unknown armed men" in the attack on Friday, the Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference said. "It ...
Sudan generals agree civilians will appoint top leaders
Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement was made by paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo following a Thursday meeting with army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who led a military ...
Niger army kills 7 suspected 'terrorists': ministry
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
The ministry, in its weekly bulletin on military operations, said the seven suspects were killed in the town of Gueskerou, near the Nigerian border. The army al...
10 killed in twin air strikes on Ethiopia's Tigray: hospital
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
Twin drone attacks hit a neighbourhood in Tigray's capital Mekele at around 7:30 am (0430 GMT), killing 10 and injuring more than a dozen others, two officials ...
Somali envoy calls for more UN aid for country on brink of famine
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
Millions of people are at risk of starvation across the Horn of Africa, which is in the grip of the worst drought in four decades after four failed rainy season...
US again approves most aid to Egypt despite rights concerns
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken finalized a package of $1.17 billion for Egypt, which has been one of the largest recipients of US assistance since it became ...
Burkina junta chief sacks defence minister as jihadist violence rages
Sep 13, 2022 (AFP)
The first decree, read on national television, removed General Barthelemy Simpore as defence minister, while the second said the "president has taken over the d...
I.Coast accuses Bamako of 'hostage taking' over troops held in Mali
Sep 11, 2022 (AFP)
"It's a hostage-taking that will not remain without consequences," a source close to the Ivorian presidency told AFP on Sunday, adding that Ivory Coast would co...
Benin in talks with Rwanda for aid to fight jihadists
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has already sent troops to help Mozambique fight Islamist militants in its north and also deployed forces to help stop violence in...
EU unveils new aid for Mozambique after jihadist attack
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
Josep Borrell held security talks with Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and Foreign Minister Veronica Macamo in the capital Maputo after arriving in the sout...
Six killed in bus attack in Cameroon
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
Government minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi said the attack on the bus was carried out by a group of "heavily-armed terrorists" on Tuesday in Fako in the English-spe...
Chad junta lifts opposition party siege, releases activists
Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)
The junta-ruled African country is currently in the process of a so-called national dialogue, with the aim to hold "free and democratic elections" within 18 mon...
UN humanitarian chief says 'famine at the door' in Somalia
Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)
"Famine is at the door and we are receiving a final warning," Griffiths said at a press conference in Mogadishu, saying famine was likely to occur in two areas ...
UN warns famine 'at the door' in Somalia
Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)
"Famine is at the door and we are receiving a final warning," visiting UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told a press conference in the Somali capital Moga...
Mali agrees to strengthen military ties with Burkina
Sep 04, 2022 (AFP)
On a "friendly visit" Saturday by Burkina's Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba to the Malian capital -- his first foreign trip since seizing power in...
Fighting spreads in Ethiopia as Tigray hit by air strike
Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)
The conflict resumed last week after a five-month lull, with clashes on the ground and air raids over Tigray dashing hopes of peacefully resolving the nearly tw...
New air strike hits capital of Ethiopia's Tigray
Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)
The bombings came after a resumption of fighting on the ground between government forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) last week. The renewed ...
South Sudan's former rebels join unified army
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
The unification of forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his rival, Vice President Riek Machar, was a key condition of the 2018 peace deal that ended the bru...
Burkina says 28 rebels and one soldier died in army ops
Aug 29, 2022 (AFP)
The landlocked Sahel state is in the grip of a seven-year-old insurgency that has claimed more than 2,000 lives and forced some 1.9 million people to leave thei...
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