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UN condemns Ethiopia air raid on school as fighting escalates
Aug 27, 2022 (AFP)
The air raid on the city of Mekele came just days after fighting returned to Ethiopia's north, shattering a five-month truce and dimming hopes of peace talks to...
Controversial Ugandan guerrilla leader turned general dies
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
Museveni himself issued a statement to announce the death of his loyal ally Elly Tumwiine at the age of 68. He hailed the general for firing the first shot in t...
Fighting resumes in northern Ethiopia after five-month lull
Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)
Within hours, reports of fresh offensives were followed by Ethiopia's air force announcing it had downed a plane carrying weapons for the Tigray People's Libera...
Ivory Coast's 'Pearl of Lagoons' loses its lustre
Aug 23, 2022 (AFP)
Today, the vast Ebrie lagoon which abuts Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan is a sick and sorry sight, choked by plastic pollution and ravaged by sand extra...
After 'doomsday' floods, Sudanese fear worse to come
Aug 23, 2022 (AFP)
"It was like doomsday," said Tigani, 53, from Makaylab in Sudan's River Nile state, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of the capital Khartoum. "We have not ...
Togo repels 'terrorist' attack: official
Aug 23, 2022 (AFP)
The attack, which took place on Monday, was the fifth in the country since last year, as jihadist groups operating in the Sahel appear to be gradually heading t...
Germany resumes troop rotations in Mali
Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)
"Today at 2:06 pm, soldiers from the Bundeswehr mission landed in Bamako, Mali," the military tweeted. "That meets the requirements to replace the first personn...
Ethiopia accuses Tigray rebels of refusing to talk peace
Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)
Both Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) have in recent weeks raised the prospect of negotiations but key hur...
Tunisia journalist jailed for comments on president, army
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
Attia is the latest in a string of critics and perceived enemies of the president to face prosecution since Saied claimed sweeping emergency powers in July last...
US strike kills 13 al-Shabaab fighters: Pentagon
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
The strike took place on August 14 near Teedaan in the central-southern part of the country while Shabaab fighters were attacking Somali National Army forces, t...
Germans spot 'Russian forces' in Mali after French exit
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
The German ambassador in Bamako has contacted Mali's foreign minister about "the suspected presence of Russian uniformed forces in Gao", said a foreign ministry...
French army interventions in Africa
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
In all, France has deployed forces to Africa more than three dozen times. These interventions have overwhelmingly concerned former French colonies, either in a ...
Two Chadian troops killed in jihadist-hit lake region
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
"Our brave forces have just repelled an attack by the shadowy Boko Haram sect in the Bol area," 300 kilometres (180 miles) from the capital N'Djamena, he said o...
I.Coast troops held in Mali charged, remanded in custody: judicial sources
Aug 14, 2022 (AFP)
A Malian judicial source said a Bamako prosecutor on Friday charged the soldiers, who have been detained for more than a month, and remanded them in custody. An...
Tigray rebels deny 'direct engagements' with Ethiopia govt
Aug 13, 2022 (AFP)
Getachew Reda, spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), said an AFP story that cited an AU statement was "pure fabrication". "Such engagement ...
Burkina junta says army to win back areas lost to rebels
Aug 12, 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...
Four dead in DR Congo mine attack, two Chinese missing
Aug 12, 2022 (AFP)
The CODECO militia attacked a Chinese-managed mining site in Mungbwalu village, Ituri province, overnight on Wednesday, army spokesman Lieutenant Jules Ngongo t...
Germany suspends military operations in Mali
Aug 12, 2022 (AFP)
"The Malian government has once again refused to give flyover rights to a flight planned today" for the rotation of personnel on the ground, a ministry spokesma...
42 Mali soldiers killed in suspected jihadist attacks
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
The toll is one of the bloodiest in Mali's decade-long insurgency, which has spread from the north of the country to the centre and south and into neighbouring ...
Ethiopia govt in 'direct engagements' with Tigray rebels: AU
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
The government has been locked in a grinding conflict with the rebels, but in recent weeks both sides have mooted the possibility of talks to end the 21-month w...
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