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Three Chinese hostages in Mali rescued after escape
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
The trio were abducted on July 17 when armed men attacked a construction site in the southwest of the conflict-ridden country. Two Mauritanian nationals also ca...
Guinea strongman Doumbouya retires 1,000 soldiers
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
In a speech on Sunday evening, the strongman said the retirements will come into force on Monday and "must in no way be considered as a punishment". "After havi...
Five Burkina police killed in fresh attack near Mali
Oct 31, 2021 (AFP)
It was the fourth deadly assault in a week against security forces battling jihadists in the poor West African country. Burkina Faso has been hit by deadly jiha...
7 Mali soldiers killed in separate attacks
Oct 30, 2021 (AFP)
Five soldiers were killed on patrol when their pick-up truck hit a road bomb near the central Malian town of Segou, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast o...
Africa to press climate finance demands at COP26: negotiator
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
The UN meeting in Scotland hosts a two-day summit of world leaders from Monday, with organisers warning that the chances of averting runaway climate change are ...
Congo army kills 27 rebels, loses four soldiers
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
The fighting took place on Tuesday and Thursday in two villages in Djugu territory in Ituri province after militiamen from the Cooperative for the Development o...
Ethiopia air strike on Tigray kills 10: hospital, rebel sources
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
The government said the strike, the latest in a campaign of air bombardments, hit a factory in Mekele used by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). The a...
Amnesty urges immediate relief for famine-hit Madagascar
Oct 27, 2021 (AFP)
More than a million people on Madagascar's parched southern tip are on the brink of famine and some are already dying, the rights watchdog said. The months-long...
Alarm around the world after Sudan 'coup'
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
The chaos followed weeks of tensions between military and civilian figures that have ruled under an uneasy power-sharing agreement since former strongman Omar a...
'We had to flee': Somalia on the run from extreme climate
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
Her people in northern Somalia had been herding for generations, born on arid land and accustomed to drought. But they could not outlast the final, unrelenting ...
Three Burkina troops killed in attack near Ivorian border
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
Burkina Faso has been hit by deadly jihadist attacks since 2015, mostly in the northern and eastern regions close to Mali and Niger but also in the south. "Unid...
Ethiopia launches air strike on rebel 'training centre': govt
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
Tigray was pounded by near-daily aerial bombardments last week in a sign the military was stepping up its use of air power in the year-long war against the Tigr...
Armed forces detain PM and other leaders in Sudan 'coup'
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
Civilian members of Sudan's ruling council and ministers in Hamdok's transitional government were also detained by the joint military forces, the ministry said ...
Ethiopia launches air strikes in northern and western Tigray
Oct 24, 2021 (AFP)
The strikes, far from the regional capital Mekele, signalled the military was potentially widening its campaign of aerial bombardments which has drawn internati...
Analysts fear CAR ceasefire on shaky ground
Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)
President Faustin-Archange Touadera issued the ceasefire declaration, vowing to pursue dialogue, and said all but two of the main armed rebel groups had agreed ...
Ethiopia air strikes hit Tigray capital for fourth day this week
Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)
Friday's operation targeted a training centre used by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group, Billene Seyoum said, adding that it was "also ser...
Mali govt denies approving jihadist negotiations
Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)
In a statement published on social media on Thursday night, the government in the Sahel state said that it had learned of plans for jihadist talks "through the ...
French troops kill senior jihadist fighter in Mali: army
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
Nasser Al Tergui was the number two in the Gourma-Serma brigade of the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin), the French state...
Eswatini bans protests as African mediation begins
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
A demonstrator died in hospital on Thursday from gunshot wounds suffered the day before when security forces opened fire on a protest, according to unions. At l...
Ethiopia launches fourth air strike this week on Tigray capital
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
The latest strike was aimed at a facility "currently serving TPLF for military training", government spokesman Legesse Tulu told AFP, referring to the Tigray Pe...
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