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Botswana trophy hunting season opens after Covid hiatus

Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)

Licences have been issued to kill 287 elephants, the biggest category of animals, according to the authorities. The landlocked southern African country boasts t...

Mali clash leaves one soldier, 12 'terrorists' dead

Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)

Twelve of the assailants were killed in the fighting, the army said on social media, saying the troops had "reacted vigorously to a terrorist attack". Mali's un...

Al-Shabaab attacks two key Somali bases: army

Apr 03, 2021 (AFP)

The attacks happened in the southern region of Lower Shabelle on bases in the towns of Awdheegle and Bariire -- some 30 kilometres (17 miles) apart. Both are fo...

Nigerian air force dismisses Boko Haram claim over jet

Apr 03, 2021 (AFP)

The Alpha jet lost radar contact on Wednesday while on a mission to support troops battling jihadists in the northeastern Borno state. The air force said it bel...

Central Mali deaths: What we know

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

The report comes after residents of the village of Bounti said a strike had targeted them during a wedding party on January 3. France's military maintains that ...

Deadly strike on French troops in I.Coast probed in Paris trial

Mar 29, 2021 (AFP)

But none of the suspects were present in court and their whereabouts are unknown. Two Ivorian fighter jets were involved in the November 6, 2004 attack on Frenc...

Al-Shabaab calls for attacks on US, French interests in Djibouti

Mar 28, 2021 (AFP)

In a video released late Saturday, Ahmed Diriye -- also known as Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah -- lashed out at Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh, who has been ...

Jihadists seize northern Mozambique town: security sources

Mar 27, 2021 (AFP)

In their closest attack to the gas project in the three-year insurgency, the militants attacked the town in the northern province of Cabo Delgado on Wednesday, ...

The Sahel: Terror, poverty and climate change

Mar 22, 2021 (AFP)

The semi-arid zone that fringes the Sahara desert has become a crucible of jihadist terror, climate change and population movement. Here is a brief explainer on...

French general rejects allegations over army's role in Rwanda

Mar 21, 2021 (AFP)

"I have read these accusations which I find insufferable and completely crazy," Lecointre said on BFM TV. "It's an insult to our soldiers," added Lecointre, who...

In Ghana, fears over pandemic rise in teenage pregnancies

Mar 17, 2021 (AFP)

Last December, she became pregnant -- "a mistake," she says in a whisper. She wanted to have an abortion, but her boyfriend's family refused. Today, in the back...

Emblems of a city, the bats of Abidjan face troubled future

Mar 17, 2021 (AFP)

The scene has long been a feature of the city's Plateau district -- in the dying embers of the sun, the beating of innumerable little wings almost drowns out th...

Two Mali soldiers killed in attack by suspected jihadists

Mar 16, 2021 (AFP)

The assailants on Monday stormed a military post southwest of the town of Ansongo, near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger, the army said in a statement on...

Sea of troubles: The Somalia-Kenya marine border spat

Mar 15, 2021 (AFP)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings on Monday into the dispute, which has strained relations between the neighbours even though Kenya has re...

Facing up to history: France and Algeria's bloody past

Mar 10, 2021 (AFP)

The war of independence left half a million dead according to the French, or 1.5 million according to the Algerians, and very nearly tore France apart. Soul sea...

France to speed up access to Algeria war files

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

President Emmanuel Macron has ordered the archives services to speed up access to documents that qualify for declassification up to 1970, his office said in a s...

Ghana's emerging LGBT movement battles with hostility

Mar 08, 2021 (AFP)

But less than a month after its opening, the centre was forced to close and its founders driven were underground after a wave of homophobia swept the country. A...

At least 20 dead, 600 injured in Equatorial Guinea military camp explosions

Mar 07, 2021 (AFP)

Footage broadcast by the TVGE channel showed buildings burned and flattened in a wide radius around the Nkoa Ntoma camp in the economic capital Bata, with a thi...

Mozambique general denies Amnesty 'war crime' allegations

Mar 07, 2021 (AFP)

Jihadists have launched a string of attacks on towns and villages in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province since a first assault in 2017. The violence has left at ...

Eritrean troops killed hundreds in Ethiopia massacre: HRW

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

It was the second major report on Eritrean abuses in the town of Axum, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in the past week. An Amnesty International investigation in...