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Mali junta seeks review of defence accord with France
Jan 17, 2022 (AFP)
The diplomat told AFP that France was "examining" the request, without detailing its contents. Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga on Saturday said on s...
Guinea's ex-president Conde leaves country
Jan 17, 2022 (AFP)
Local news website Guineenews reported that the ex-president had boarded a plane to the United Arab Emirates. AFP was unable to independently confirm his destin...
UN council members urge 'utmost restraint' in Sudan
Jan 17, 2022 (AFP)
The call came as Sudanese security forces killed seven protesters among thousands rallying against last year's military coup, medics said. "We express our serio...
Economist arrested in Mali for 'subversive remarks': lawyer
Jan 17, 2022 (AFP)
Lawyer Abdourahmane Toure said that Etienne Fakaba Sissoko was being held on Sunday evening at the police station in the Malian capital, but he did not know whi...
Student 'seriously wounded' in DR Congo army op: medic
Jan 15, 2022 (AFP)
"At around 9:00 this morning (0700 GMT), two FARDC (army) helicopters came to bomb around Petsi's health centre and school," Maki Angaika, a nurse at the health...
At least 108 civilians killed this year in Tigray airstrikes: UN
Jan 14, 2022 (AFP)
The UN also warned of a looming humanitarian disaster in the region, with its food distribution operations on the verge of grinding to a halt. The UN human righ...
12 in custody in Burkina over 'destabilisation' plot
Jan 13, 2022 (AFP)
Fifteen people have been arrested since Monday, comprising "two officers, seven non-commissioned officers, a senior officer and five civilians," General Simpore...
Abiy has 'special responsibility' to end Tigray conflict: Nobel panel
Jan 13, 2022 (AFP)
"As Prime Minister and winner of the Peace Prize, Abiy Ahmed has a special responsibility to end the conflict and contribute to peace," Berit Reiss-Andersen, ch...
UN's Guterres 'saddened' by reports of deadly strike in Tigray: spokesman
Jan 11, 2022 (AFP)
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) last week claimed that dozens had been killed in a drone strike on a camp for civilians displaced by the war in nort...
Eight Burkina soldiers held over plot to 'destabilise institutions'
Jan 11, 2022 (AFP)
The military prosecutor's office in capital Ouagadougou said it had learned of an "allegation of a project to destabilise the institutions of the republic being...
Aid agencies suspend work in Tigray area hit by deadly strike: UN
Jan 09, 2022 (AFP)
The raid came only hours after the Ethiopian government had issued a call for "national reconciliation", and sparked renewed appeals from an alarmed internation...
Three refugees killed by air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray: UN
Jan 06, 2022 (AFP)
"I am deeply saddened to learn that three Eritrean refugees, two of them children, were killed yesterday, in an airstrike that hit the Mai Aini refugee camp in ...
China is not trapping Africa in debt: foreign minister
Jan 06, 2022 (AFP)
Wang, speaking ahead of touring Beijing-funded infrastructure projects in Kenya, said China's considerable lending to Africa was "mutually benefiting" and not a...
China to appoint special envoy to Horn of Africa: FM
Jan 06, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement came as a US envoy was due to arrive in Ethiopia to encourage talks to end more than a year of war in the country's north. Wang, on a three-nat...
18 militiamen killed in DR Congo fighting: army
Jan 05, 2022 (AFP)
Major Dieudonne Kasereka, the army's spokesman in South Kivu province, said a unit of reinforcements came under attack while travelling though the village of Ka...
China voices opposition to Eritrea sanctions as FM visits
Jan 05, 2022 (AFP)
The United States slapped sanctions on Eritrea last year over the brutal conflict in neighbouring Ethiopia, a move Asmara branded "illicit and immoral." Eritrea...
China FM in Eritrea at start of Africa tour
Jan 04, 2022 (AFP)
His visit follows a trip to Africa by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in November that was in part aimed at countering China's growing influence on the con...
Ex-militiaman killed in eastern DR Congo protest
Jan 02, 2022 (AFP)
Hundreds of demobilised militiamen blocked a strategic road that supplies Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, for five hours. The road is used to transpor...
Aquamation: Tutu's chosen flameless cremation
Jan 01, 2022 (AFP)
Like human composting, a technique of composting bodies with layers of organic material like leaves or wood chips, aquamation is still authorised only in certai...
Guinea's deposed leader authorised to leave country
Dec 31, 2021 (AFP)
A government statement read out on national television said that, in consultation with the regional bloc ECOWAS, "former President Alpha Conde is authorised to ...
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