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WHO chief condemns Ethiopian strike on Tigray market
Jun 25, 2021 (AFP)
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health and foreign minister in Ethiopia, said the UN health agency was providing...
Militia frees six soldiers in east DR Congo: army
Jun 25, 2021 (AFP)
The move came after several dozen members of the Nyatura militia -- one of scores that operate in the region -- surrendered to government forces last week. Pres...
Some in Madagascar 'on verge of starvation': UN
Jun 25, 2021 (AFP)
The current situation -- brought on by years of persistent drought -- prompted World Food Programme executive director David Beasley, who recently visited the c...
64 dead in Ethiopian air strike as army denies targeting civilians
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
Details of the bloody attack on Togoga town, 30 kilometres (18 miles) northwest of the regional capital Mekele, on Tuesday were slow to emerge partly because so...
Liberian lawyers, activists push MPs for war crimes court
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
An estimated 250,000 people died in 14 years of appalling bloodshed, but very few of those responsible have faced trial, an issue now back on the political agen...
Alleged Gabonese putschists accuse brother of president
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
The president of the Libreville Special Military Court, however, rejected requests by lawyers of the nine co-defendants to have Colonel Frederic Bongo appear. A...
Three senior DRCongo officers arrested: prosecutors
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
The arrests come in a province that has been under military control since May 6 because of repeated attacks by an array of militia groups. "We have arrested thr...
Calls for inquiry as dozens killed, injured, in Ethiopia market airstrike
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Families rushed to a hospital in the regional capital Mekele as the casualties, including many children, arrived from nearby Togoga, where witnesses and medical...
Four kidnapped Chinese workers freed in Nigeria
Jun 22, 2021 (AFP)
The four were abducted on Wednesday from a rail construction site at Alaagba village in Ogun state by unknown gunmen who also killed their police escort. The Ch...
Gabon paid for protecting forests, in African first
Jun 22, 2021 (AFP)
Gabon has received $17 million in recompense for successfully cutting its carbon emissions by reducing deforestation and forest degradation, the environment min...
Congo, China agree debt restructuring
Jun 21, 2021 (AFP)
Congolese Finance Minister Rigobert Roger Andely said President Denis Sassou Nguesso had "raised the problem" in a telephone call with Xi, "proposing a second r...
Mali ex-rebels question junta's commitment to 2015 peace deal
Jun 20, 2021 (AFP)
A civilian prime minister named by the junta, Choguel Kokkala Maiga, "was fiercely opposed to the Algiers peace accord before his nomination", noted Mohamed Mao...
Gbagbo's return gives push to 'reconciliation' call in Ivory Coast
Jun 18, 2021 (AFP)
Thousands of supporters lined the streets of Abidjan on Thursday to celebrate the return of a man they revere as a hero, but who for others stirs memories of tu...
Gunmen kidnap four Chinese rail workers in Nigeria: police
Jun 17, 2021 (AFP)
The attack occurred on Wednesday at Alaagba village in Ogun state after the Chinese workers were ambushed, state police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi told AFP. "Fo...
US-led war games underway in Morocco near disputed W.Sahara
Jun 15, 2021 (AFP)
More than 7,000 personnel from nine countries and NATO are taking part in the exercises codenamed "African Lion", which kicked off on June 8, according to US Af...
Senegalese army captures rebel bases in fresh offensive
Jun 14, 2021 (AFP)
Lieutenant-Colonel Mathieu Diogaye Sene, a commander in the region, said that two soldiers were wounded in the operations on the border with Guinea-Bissau which...
French army kills Mali jihadist linked to journalist murders
Jun 12, 2021 (AFP)
Parly said French forces in the Sahel region killed "four terrorists" during an operation in northern Mali on June 5, including Bayes Ag Bakabo, the prime suspe...
DR Congo seizes militia chief accused of killing 19 wildlife rangers
Jun 10, 2021 (AFP)
The park, one of richest areas of biodiversity in the world, is the home of the mountain gorilla and dozens of other rare or endangered species. After a six-mon...
Macron announces Sahel troop drawdown, calls for new force
Jun 10, 2021 (AFP)
At a news conference, Macron said the existing Barkhane operation would end, with France's presence becoming part of the so-called Takuba international task for...
Nigeria's Twitter ban provokes outcry
Jun 09, 2021 (AFP)
The decision on Friday, days after Twitter deleted a remark from President Muhammadu Buhari, has already provoked international outcry over freedom of expressio...
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