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UN chief urges swift return to civilian rule in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali
May 01, 2022 (AFP)
Speaking after meeting Senegalese President Macky Sall in Dakar, he said they had agreed on the need to keep talking to the de facto authorities in all three co...
Guinea opposition condemns 39-month move to civilian rule
May 01, 2022 (AFP)
The party of the ousted president Alpha Conde and opposition groups that had opposed him united in denouncing the decision. Their statements came as UN chief An...
'They whip us': Residents accuse army of abuse in east DR Congo
Apr 30, 2022 (AFP)
But the abuse Agathe has suffered in the territory of Masisi in North-Kivu province is not by rebels who have terrorised the area for over a quarter of a centur...
Guinea junta leader decides on 39-month transition
Apr 30, 2022 (AFP)
He made the announcement in a speech broadcast on television, saying the National Transition Council (CNT) would put the proposal to parliament. The announcemen...
RSF helps RFI and France 24 get round Mali internet ban
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
The radio and television channels announced on Wednesday that Mali's ruling junta had definitively banned them after complaining about reports that the Sahel na...
Death toll soars under year of DR Congo's 'state of siege'
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
Between April 2020 and May 2021, 1,374 people were killed, said analyst Reagan Miviri from the respected Kivu Security Tracker (KST) that monitors the bloodshed...
French army rejects Mali's spying accusation
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
Mali had on Tuesday accused the French army of "spying" and "subversion" when it used a drone to film what France alleged were mercenaries burying bodies near a...
Ethiopia says Tigrayan peacekeepers victims of rebel 'propaganda'
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
More than 500 UN peacekeepers from Tigray who were deployed to Abyei, a disputed border region between Sudan and South Sudan, have asked Khartoum for asylum, ci...
DR Congo and rebels wrap up first round of peace talks
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
The mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is struggling to contain dozens of rebel groups in the east of the nation, many of which are a legacy of two...
France 24 TV and RFI radio say Mali has banned them for good
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
France Medias Monde, the state-owned parent company of RFI and France 24, said it had received notification during the day from Mali's communication authority. ...
Mali accuses France of spying after video of mass grave
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
The drone "illegally" flew over the Gossi base on April 20, the day after French forces handed the site back to Mali, the junta said in a statement. The followi...
Six soldiers killed, 20 injured in Mali 'terror' attacks
Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)
Targets in Sevare, Niono and Bapho were all hit by "armed terrorist groups (who) used suicide vehicles packed with explosives", the army said in a statement. A ...
Attacks on Burkina Faso military units kill 15
Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)
"Terrorist attacks" killed nine people in Gaskinde and six in nearby Pobe Mengao near the Malian border on Sunday morning as assailants targeted military bases ...
Ethiopian peacekeepers from Tigray seek asylum in Sudan
Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)
Until last year, Ethiopian forces accounted for the vast majority of the around 4,000-member peacekeeping mission in Abyei (UNISFA), a disputed border region be...
Niger parliament votes in favour of foreign troop presence
Apr 22, 2022 (AFP)
After several hours of debate, the members of parliament voted 131 in favour and 31 against. Some activists have been campaigning against the presence of foreig...
Mali army says uncovered mass grave near former French base
Apr 22, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement comes just hours after the French army said it had filmed Russian mercenaries burying bodies near the base to falsely accuse France's departing...
Niger MPs to vote on foreign troop presence
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
A vote will follow, a government source said, as an official document handed to lawmakers said that new facilities will be built for these forces. Some activist...
Kenya to host talks between DR Congo, rebels
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
The mineral-rich DRC is struggling to contain dozens of armed groups in the east of the nation, many of which are a legacy of two regional wars a quarter of a c...
Chinese mine manager jailed in Rwanda for torture
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
Sun Shujun, the manager of a mine in the west of the country, was convicted on Tuesday along with an accomplice following his arrest in September last year. "It...
France says Russians staged French 'atrocity' in Mali
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
The video, filmed with a drone and seen by AFP on Thursday, shows what appear to be Caucasian soldiers covering bodies with sand near the Gossi base in northern...
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