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France admits 'torture and murder' of Algerian freedom fighter
Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)
Macron made the admission "in the name of France" during a meeting with Boumendjel's grandchildren. The move comes after Macron stoked outrage in January when h...
Macron admits France murdered Algerian independence figure
Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)
Macron met four of the grandchildren of Ali Boumendjel and admitted "in the name of France" that the lawyer had been detained, tortured and killed in Algiers on...
Jihadists 'directly targeted' aid facilities in Nigeria: UN
Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)
No group has claimed responsibility yet but the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group, which split from mainstream Boko Haram in 2016, is suspected t...
US, Russia warships dock in strategic Sudan port2
Mar 01, 2021 (AFP)
The arrival of the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill to Port Sudan follows Washington's delisting of Khartoum as state sponsors of terrorism, fo...
Widow of slain Italian ambassador says he was 'betrayed'
Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)
Luca Attanasio, 43, was shot dead on Monday after unidentified assailants ambushed a two-vehicle convoy from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) in the eastern ...
Burkina Faso military kills 11 'terrorists'
Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)
The ground and air operation was launched "in the forest of Bangao and in the areas of Tasmakat, Fourkoussou and Bidy in Oudalan province on February 23 and 24,...
Tanzanian bow-and-arrow hunters offer insight on evolution of technology
Feb 24, 2021 (UPI)
In an effort to make sense of Homo sapiens' remarkable evolutionary success, the authors of a new paper set out to illuminate the importance of causal knowledge...
U.S. Navy ship visits Sudan in show of partnership
Feb 24, 2021 (UPI)
The ship, a 337-foot long catamaran designed to carry helicopters and quickly load and unload vehicles, docked in Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, according to the N...
Two Mali soldiers killed in ambush
Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)
Around 0200 pm local time (0200 GMT), the troops were ambushed en route between Konna and Sevare by an armed terrorist group, according to the army statement, c...
Five things to know about Niger
Feb 21, 2021 (AFP)
- Poverty and migrants - With its 22.4 million -- mainly Muslim -- people, Niger is among the world's poorest countries. For nine straight years it has ranked l...
Jihadists overrun Nigerian army base; Plane crash in kidnap rescue op
Feb 21, 2021 (AFP)
The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group that split from the Boko Haram movement in 2016 has become a dominant threat in the region, attacking soldi...
As peace deal drifts, South Sudan risks fresh crisis
Feb 20, 2021 (AFP)
President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar, for years on opposing sides of the battlefield, formed a coalition government on February 22, 2020 after ne...
IS claims killing of 4 Tunisia soldiers, beheading: SITE
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
The US monitor of jihadist groups said late Thursday that the soldiers were killed in three blasts ignited by its fighters near Mount Mghila and that a "spy" wa...
Ugandan soldiers jailed for assaulting journalists
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
The seven injured journalists were covering an effort by opposition leader Bobi Wine to file a petition on Wednesday with the United Nations against human right...
From conflict to co-working, Libyan youths share space
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
Overcoming both restrictions to stem the coronavirus pandemic and the conflicts that have riven the oil-rich North African nation since the 2011 uprising that o...
Jihadists kill 3 soldiers in NE Nigeria
Feb 13, 2021 (AFP)
Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) opened fire on the convoy in Barwanti village in the Lake Chad area late Friday, after a landmine t...
France struggling in Sahel 'information war'
Feb 11, 2021 (AFP)
Eight years since it deployed troops against jihadists in Mali, Paris is struggling to impose itself in a separate information war being waged for public opinio...
Fresh calls for protests emerge in Nigeria's biggest city
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
Youth-led protests against police brutality and bad governance brought Africa's largest city to a standstill last year, with the campaign drawing support from m...
Kidnapped Chinese workers freed in Nigeria: police
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
The Chinese were abducted and their police escort killed on February 1 following a dispute with local labourers at the mining site at the Atakumosa area of the ...
Human-elephant conflict in Kenya heightens with increase in crop-raiding
Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)
Findings show that the direct economic impact of this crop-raiding in the Trans Mara region has dropped, yet farmers have to spend more time protecting their fi...
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