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French army chief slams UN 'bias' in report on Mali strike
May 22, 2021 (AFP)
"Very clearly this (report) comprises an attack on the French army, the Barkhane operation (and) on the legitimacy of our engagements," General Francois Lecoint...
CAfrica to receive 600 more Russian 'instructors'
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Moscow, which wields significant influence in the vast yet poor African nation, has since 2018 maintained a large contingent of "instructors" to train the Centr...
Nigeria offers support to Chad after leaders meet
May 14, 2021 (AFP)
Chad's army has often played a key role in the decade-long fight against Boko Haram and more recently against the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) tha...
Amazon Africa HQ site facing indigenous backlash
May 14, 2021 (AFP)
Amazon is setting up its African HQ in Cape Town -- a project with the promise of thousands of jobs in a country where unemployment is cripplingly high. City au...
Nigeria repels jihadist attack on northeast city
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The attack, which happened as Muslim residents observing Ramadan were about to break their fast, was the latest violence in a more than decade-long insurgency i...
Burkina army says 20 'terrorists' killed in joint operation
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The operation was launched on May 5 in the Nord and Sahel regions, bringing together conventional and special forces, the air force and gendarmerie, a police un...
In Covid times, Ghana's 2.0 churches thrive
May 07, 2021 (AFP)
More than 70 percent of the West African country's 30 million people are Christian, mainly Pentecostals or Evangelists, who have had to abide by strict rules in...
Chad rebels 'fleeing', says defence minister
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
"The security forces are thoroughly sweeping the operational area. Most of the prisoners are in the hands of the gendarmerie (police) and are being well-treated...
Afrobeats put Ghana back on international music scene
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
In the bustling Osu district, early revellers laze on plastic chairs emptying local beers as speakers cranked to full volume drown out their voices. After midni...
15 soldiers killed in Niger 'terrorist' attack: govt
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
Niger's defence ministry said "heavily armed men" had attacked troops serving under the anti-jihadist Almahaou ("whirlwind") operation near the town of Banibang...
Nigeria army dismisses suggestions of takeover from Buhari
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
It was not the first time Nigeria's armed forces have issued a statement backing Buhari, but the latest has come after weeks of criticism of the 78-year-old for...
French prosecutors request judges drop case over Rwanda massacre
May 03, 2021 (AFP)
The call to drop the 15-year-old case came after a major report in March into allegations about France's role in the genocide. Survivors of the June 1994 slaugh...
Nigeria jihadists attack two army bases, 8 killed
May 02, 2021 (AFP)
Islamic State-aligned militants have intensified attacks on army camps in recent weeks as part of a more than decade-long insurgency that has killed more than 3...
Cameroon separatists kill four soldiers
Apr 30, 2021 (AFP)
The Northwest and Southwest regions of the west African nation have seen vicious fighting in the past four years, with the UN and international aid groups sayin...
'It's all we have': the plight of S.Africa's informal miners
Apr 30, 2021 (AFP)
Informal miner Bonginkosi Mhlanga threw a pickaxe over his shoulder and descended back below ground, where he would remain until daybreak. Locally known as "zam...
The 'good lad' who died for political change in Chad
Apr 30, 2021 (AFP)
The young man's broad smile in the picture was the only cheery face seen Thursday around the large house, where about 40 relatives and friends came to grieve wi...
Along the mighty Niger River, fewer fish and more jihadists
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
The 76-year-old Malian is one of tens of thousands of fishermen who make a living from the river and the verdant wetlands which surround it. But Djenepo's smile...
Nigeria calls for U.S. Army's AFRICOM to move to Africa
Apr 28, 2021 (UPI)
The command, responsible for U.S. military relations in Africa, is currently headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, but Nigerian President Muhammad Buhari asked f...
Abducted Westerners feared killed in Burkina
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
The landlocked West African nation is struggling with a ruthless insurgency by Islamists who swept in from neighbouring Mali in 2015. An intensive manhunt was u...
Blinken cautions Africa on China during 'trip' to Nigeria, Kenya
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
In what was billed as a virtual trip due to Covid-19 restrictions, the top US diplomat was holding talks with the two nations' leaders and "touring" sites inclu...
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