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South African train makes safari trip, but never moves
Apr 07, 2022 (AFP)
In the middle of the Kruger National Park, South Africa's most celebrated wildlife reserve, this luxury train takes passengers -- but it never moves. Converted ...
Climate-related health emergencies on the rise in Africa: WHO
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
According to new WHO analysis such climate-related health emergencies account for "more than half of public health events recorded in the region over the past t...
Mali opens probe in Moura, site of alleged massacre
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
"Following the allegations of alleged abuses committed against civilians... investigations have been opened by the national gendarmes on the instructions of the...
DR Congo Pygmies attacked in wildlife park: rights group
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
Violence broke out in 2018 between park rangers and members of the Batwa community, who are accused of illegally settling in the reserve, cutting down trees to ...
Central Mali killings: What happened in Moura?
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
According to Mali's army, soldiers conducted a successful operation against jihadists in Moura, in the centre of the Sahel nation, killing hundreds. But another...
Armed men surround home of Mali politician who criticised junta
Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)
At a recent public meeting in the conflict-torn Sahel nation, Mariko had suggested that the army was "murdering people," and urged the junta to assume responsib...
Malian forces, suspected Russian fighters killed 300 civilians; politician targeted
Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)
In a report, the rights group suggested the alleged massacre perpetrated over four days, in the town of Moura in volatile central Mali, was a war crime. Malian ...
France alarmed by Mali killings involving army and 'Russian mercenaries'
Apr 04, 2022 (AFP)
"France is deeply concerned by information of mass abuses in the village of Moura by elements of the Malian armed forces accompanied by Russian mercenaries from...
Mali opposition figure summoned after junta criticism
Apr 04, 2022 (AFP)
Mariko's left-leaning SADI party also stated on Sunday that heavily armed men had broken into the politician's home and demanded that relatives reveal his locat...
Vital DR Congo power plant caught in rebel crossfire
Apr 04, 2022 (AFP)
But the key infrastructure is caught up in fighting between the army and the M23 rebel group, one of many in Congo's restive east, which launched an offensive a...
S.Sudan rivals seal security pact in peace 'milestone'
Apr 03, 2022 (AFP)
President Salva Kiir and his rival, Vice President Riek Machar, agreed on the creation of a unified armed forces command, one of several deadlocked issues holdi...
Mali says 203 killed in military operation in centre
Apr 02, 2022 (AFP)
The army said the March 23-31 military operation took place in Sahel's Moura area -- which it termed a "terrorist fiefdom". Soldiers killed 203 militants, arres...
Burkina Faso sets up local panels to talk to jihadists
Apr 02, 2022 (AFP)
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who seized power on January 24, addressed the Sahel nation late Friday saying the move was intended "to create co...
Kenya jail goes green to fix sewage woes and protect sea
Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)
"You would always know you were near Shimo la Tewa Prison," said Stephen Mwangi, a government scientist who has lived for decades in the coastal region where th...
Mali orders French army programming off private TV channels; Claims 203 killed in operation
Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)
The government said that France's Barkhane military operation had been running an advertising campaign for several weeks in Mali in order to "promote its activi...
Jihadist-hit Mali gets combat helicopters from Russia
Mar 31, 2022 (AFP)
Defence Minister Sadio Camara late Wednesday formally received two helicopters, radar and other equipment brought by a Russian transport plane to a military bas...
Niger calls for regional force against Sahel jihadists
Mar 31, 2022 (AFP)
Nigeria's neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso are struggling to contain Islamic State and Al-Qaeda aligned militant insurgencies that have spread across their ter...
Central Africa's Aka Pygmies struggle with stigma and poverty
Mar 31, 2022 (AFP)
She smiles despite the nasty-looking growth on her back and her other symptoms: chest pains, dizziness and parasites. Juliette is aged only in her fifties, yet ...
As Zimbabwe eyes election, fears grow of a return to dirty tricks
Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)
Despite that, the main opposition, Citizens Coalition for Change, came out of the vote oozing with confidence, saying nothing can stop it from forming the next ...
Manufacturing isn't the only way poor countries can develop
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
History proves this to be generally true: During the Industrial Revolution, the United States and other developed countries moved away from agriculture and into...
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