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People in Burkina exclusion zones given 14 days to leave
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
The areas are reputed havens for jihadists, and the decision to establish the two zones was taken at a defence council convened on Monday by junta leader Lieute...
Mali army strikes jihadists after massacre, army says
Jun 23, 2022 (AFP)
It carried out strikes between Monday and Wednesday around Bankass and Segue, near where the mass killing took place, and also further afield around Djenne and ...
InSight gets a few extra weeks of Mars science
Jun 22, 2022 (JPL)
Instead, the team now plans to program the lander so that the seismometer can operate longer, perhaps until the end of August or into early September. Doing so ...
Kenya's deputy president vows to deport Chinese traders if elected
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
East Africa's biggest economy will hold presidential and parliamentary polls on August 9, against a backdrop of economic hardship in the wake of the Covid pande...
Guinea political group suspends call for protests
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), which was vocal against former president Alpha Conde, said in a statement that it would give dial...
Chinese scientists help Africa combat land degradation
Jun 22, 2022 (SPX)
Land degradation is one of the most significant global ecological and environmental challenges. Africa is particularly vulnerable to land degradation and desert...
Tanzania accuses Kenyan Maasai of backing opponents to wildlife protection area
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
The Maasai of Loliondo have accused the government of trying to force them off their land in order to organise safaris and hunting expeditions. But the governme...
Burkina's junta announces military zones, forbids entry
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
The decision was taken at a defence council convened on Monday by junta leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba to discuss the country's "worrying ...
Ivory Coast 'turns page' on refugee crisis; As flooding claims 5 children
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
"The cessation of (refugee) status is a gesture that has legal value because the people who stay abroad are no longer refugees. But it also has an important sym...
People of east DR Congo reject idea of regional force
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
The proposal to deploy a peacekeeping force was announced on Monday in the Kenyan capital Nairobi at a meeting of the East African Community (EAC). But opponent...
China wants bigger role in Horn of Africa security: envoy
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
The two-day China-Horn of Africa Conference on Security, Governance and Development in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, the first of its kind, ended Tuesday. It ...
Zambia arrests Chinese man wanted for racism in Malawi
Jun 20, 2022 (AFP)
"He was arrested in Chipata, Zambia after fleeing the country through uncharted routes," Malawi immigration spokesman Pasqually Zulu told AFP. Lu Ke is accused ...
US, Morocco launch vast military exercise
Jun 20, 2022 (AFP)
The exercise, which began in the southern Moroccan region of Agadir and lasts the rest of the month, involves some 7,500 personnel from 10 nations such as Brazi...
China offers to mediate Horn of Africa disputes
Jun 20, 2022 (AFP)
The China-Horn of Africa Conference on security, Governance and Development is the first of its kind and underscores Beijing's determination to play a greater r...
Burkina army says killed over 120 'terrorists'
Jun 20, 2022 (AFP)
The first operation took place in the northwestern region of Boucle du Mouhoun bordering Mali, according to a statement by the military headquarters. "Intellige...
Tanzania charges Maasai with murder over policeman death
Jun 17, 2022 (AFP)
The clashes erupted last weekend in Loliondo in Ngorongoro district, where Maasai herders protested against the government's push to reserve 1,500 square kilome...
Tanzania starts moving Maasai out of Ngorongoro reserve
Jun 16, 2022 (AFP)
The indigenous community has lived in the reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Tanzania, for over a century. But they now face the threat of evicti...
France captures Islamic State figure in Mali: military
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
"In the night of 11-12 June, an operation of the Barkhane force allowed the capture of Oumeya Ould Albakaye, a senior figure in the Islamic State in the Greater...
Kenya president urges deployment of regional force in DR Congo
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
The mineral-rich DRC is struggling to contain dozens of armed groups in the east of the vast nation, many of which are a legacy of two regional wars a quarter o...
Russian mercenaries in Mali base days after France pullout: sources
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
France handed back the military base in northeastern Mali on Monday, as part of its withdrawal from Mali after almost a decade leading the Barkhane anti-insurge...
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