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Dec 22, 2020 (AFP)

Turkey's support for the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli helped stave off an offensive by eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar with Russian, Egyptian...

US navy ships arrive in Somalia for withdrawal

Dec 22, 2020 (AFP)

The amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island and accompanying ships arrived off the Horn of Africa on Monday, 16 days after President Donald Trump ordered the p...

Sudan probes 'first' senior officer over deadly protest crackdown

Dec 22, 2020 (AFP)

"The first hearing of a member of the Transitional Military Council took place on Monday," an associate of committee head Nabil Adib told AFP, without revealing...

Rwanda deploys troops to C.Africa: defence ministry

Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)

"The Government of Rwanda has deployed force protection troops to the Central African Republic, under an existing bilateral agreement on defence," said a statem...

U.S. troops to leave Somalia but remain in East Africa

Dec 21, 2020 (UPI)

The Pentagon announced Dec. 4 that, under orders from President Donald Trump, U.S. personnel and assets will be removed from Somalia by early 2021. The troops a...

Chad to probe Facebook troll scandal involving France and Russia

Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)

The US tech giant said on Tuesday it had closed down two Russian-linked networks of accounts and a third with "links to individuals associated with French milit...

Troll crackdown exposes France-Russia rivalry in Africa

Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)

The US tech firm said on Tuesday it had closed down two Russian-linked networks of accounts and a third with "links to individuals associated with French milita...

Sudan PM says military's vast business holdings 'unacceptable'

Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)

The transitional government is ruling Sudan following last year's ouster of strongman Omar al-Bashir by the army, amid youth-led pro-democracy mass protests. Ha...

26 Nigerian generals Covid-19 positive: army

Dec 14, 2020 (AFP)

Testing was ordered following the death of major-general John Irefin during the 2020 Chief of Army staff Annual conference in Abuja last week. "The Chief of Arm...

Lisbon offers Mozambique support in fight against jihadists

Dec 12, 2020 (AFP)

Jihadists have stepped up attacks aimed at carving out a caliphate in Cabo Delgado province, where 2,400 people have been reported killed and a million displace...

US strikes Shabaab in Somalia after withdrawal announcement

Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)

The strikes were carried out in the area of Jilib in the country's south against the group that "remains a dangerous franchise of Al-Qaeda," the US military sai...

Drones, wars, genocide: Tainted legacy of Nobel Peace laureates

Dec 08, 2020 (AFP)

Officially, the guns in Tigray have been silenced: On November 28, Abiy, who won the 2019 Peace Prize, declared victory after three weeks of fighting in the nor...

Trump orders pullout of most US personnel from Somalia

Dec 04, 2020 (AFP)

Trump "has ordered the Department of Defense and the United States Africa Command to reposition the majority of personnel and assets out of Somalia by early 202...

Mali interim government names MPs

Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)

Young army officers in the conflict-ridden Sahel state toppled president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on August 18 after weeks of anti-government protests. Under the ...

Sudan generals summoned over deadly 2019 crackdown: state media

Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)

Shortly before dawn on June 3, 2019, gunmen in military fatigues raided a weeks-long sit-in outside army headquarters in the capital Khartoum, shooting and beat...

Namibia defends drilling in unique biodiversity site

Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)

Canada-based firm ReconAfrica is set to begin drilling this month in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) -- a unique ecological site span...

Pygmies, soldier killed in clashes over DR Congo park

Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)

The national park, which celebrated its 50th anniversary on Monday, is a haven for critically endangered gorillas but faces an emerging threat from a conflict b...

Algeria says three Islamists killed in army clash

Dec 01, 2020 (AFP)

The army killed "two terrorists following a clash with a dangerous" armed group in Jijel province, the ministry said in an initial statement, later revising the...

Head of DR Congo elite unit warns against 'plotting'

Dec 01, 2020 (AFP)

In a video that began to spread on social media on Monday, Major-General Christian Tshiwewe said, "I urge you not to plot against the government by taking part ...

UN experts call for South Sudan arms embargo to continue

Dec 01, 2020 (AFP)

The eastern African nation is struggling to emerge from a six-year civil war that claimed some 380,000 lives and officially ended with the creation of a governm...