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Dozens reported killed in Tigray air strikes: UN
Dec 30, 2021 (AFP)
Ethiopia's government said last week that its troops would not advance further into Tigray, signalling a potential pause in fighting even as Tigrayan rebels acc...
Somalia PM accuses president of 'coup' attempt as elections spat deepens
Dec 27, 2021 (AFP)
The angry exchange came a day after President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who is better known as Farmajo, sparred with Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble over ...
50 killed in DR Congo fighting
Dec 27, 2021 (AFP)
The clashes have taken place in Ituri province, where in separate conflicts, the army is battling the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) -- a group with suspected l...
Nigeria air strikes 'kill more than 100 jihadists'
Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)
Fighter jets bombarded three Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) camps in Nigeria's northeast on Monday last week, killing more than 100 fighters includi...
Germany considers relocating soldiers in Mali mission
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
"The safety of our soldiers is my first priority," Lambrecht told German weekly Bild am Sonntag, referring to the Bundeswehr's mission to train Malian forces. "...
Guinea PM offers rare rebuke to junta over airport renaming
Dec 17, 2021 (AFP)
In a rare public criticism of the West African country's ruling junta, Mohamed Beavogui told local news site Mosaiqueguinee that he was not consulted about rena...
Europe builds up Mali force as France draws down troops
Dec 16, 2021 (AFP)
Menaka is bustling with activity, boasting brand-new tents, freshly dug trenches and choppers taking off and landing in a constant ballet in the sky. What was o...
EU halts C. Africa army training over Wagner influence
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
The United Nations and France say the private security force has provided backing to the CAR army in repelling rebels who tried to advance on the capital, alleg...
US warns Mali on accepting Russia's Wagner mercenaries
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
Two days after the European Union joined the United States in imposing sanctions on the Wagner Group, Blinken voiced disappointment that Mali has rejected an of...
Macron to meet Mali strongman for first time next week: presidency
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
Macron's meeting with Goita in Bamako on Monday will come at a tense time in relations between France and Mali with the French government deeply concerned over ...
French soldiers lower flag after years in Mali's Timbuktu
Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)
The ceremony took place near the city's airport, with Malian army officers, officials from the local government and the United Nations attending. The French fla...
French forces pack up in Mali for Sahel pullout
Dec 13, 2021 (AFP)
French troops were sent to Mali in 2013 by then-president Francois Hollande to tackle the rebels affiliated to Al-Qaeda or Islamic State in the arid north. Pari...
Guinea junta returns ex-leader's residence to family; Police disperse protesters
Dec 11, 2021 (AFP)
A previous military junta took power and seized the property in the capital Conakry just days after long-serving former president Ahmed Sekou Toure's death in 1...
Tsadkan Gebre-Tensae: The Tigray general who came in from the cold
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
For many observers, there is little doubt that Tsadkan, whose face -- round, bald, moustached -- is famous in Ethiopia, is the man responsible for the advances ...
Burkina Faso president picks ex-nuclear monitor as PM: decree
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
"The president... decrees: Lassina Zerbo is named prime minister," government spokesman Stephane Wenceslas Sanou said, reading the decree on television. Zerbo, ...
France to open classified Algerian War archives
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
The files cover criminal investigations during the 1954-1962 war of independence and are likely to confirm the widespread use of torture and extra-judicial kill...
Two Ugandan troops jailed over protest bloodshed
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
The sentences come days after the United States announced sanctions against the head of Ugandan military intelligence, suspected of serious human rights violati...
DR Congo, UN forces sign accord on tackling armed groups
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
The "guidelines for joint operations" set down procedures for enabling operations by the UN mission MONUSCO and the FARDC, as the Congolese army is known, they ...
South Sudan peace process at risk, UN warns
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
The world's newest nation has suffered from chronic instability since independence in 2011, including a brutal five-year civil war between forces loyal to Presi...
UN peacekeeper succumbs to wounds after November Mali attack
Dec 07, 2021 (AFP)
The soldier died on Monday in Senegal's capital Dakar, where he was taken for treatment with two other peacekeepers after a vehicle they were travelling in hit ...
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