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IMF predicts Zambia economy to shrink by 5% due to virus, drought
Jul 15, 2020 (AFP)
The International Monetary Fund made the projection following two weeks of discussions with Zambian authorities. "The social and macroeconomic impact of the COV...
South Africa deploys military medics to virus hotspot
Jul 05, 2020 (AFP)
The deployment to East Cape province comes a day after South Africa recorded more than 10,800 new COVID-19 cases, its biggest single-day jump during the pandemi...
DR Congo troops kill Angolan soldier in border incident
Jul 05, 2020 (AFP)
It was the latest incident between the two armies in the Kasai region along the border, where DR Congo officials complain Angolan forces often violate the front...
Nine Mali soldiers killed in ambush: army
Jul 03, 2020 (AFP)
The latest attack took place on Thursday at the entrance to Gouari, one of the villages where armed men massacred around 30 civilians the day before. A military...
Senegal capital fights shoreline developers
Jun 29, 2020 (AFP)
A man had turned up with permits and diggers got to work, according to Mamadou Mignane Diouf, an official from a local campaign group called Forum Social, who f...
Bomb kills two Algerian soldiers in north: ministry
Jun 28, 2020 (AFP)
Captain Fateh Bensmail and Sergeant Zakaria Khaldi were killed Saturday night, the ministry said in a statement, after a home-made bomb exploded during a search...
Cameroon's President Biya under pressure over human rights
Jun 27, 2020 (AFP)
NGOs have long denounced abuses in the central African country, from the detention of journalists and arrests of opponents to the killings of civilians by soldi...
Burkina army says it has destroyed two jihadist 'bases'
Jun 23, 2020 (AFP)
A gendarmerie unit on Saturday "dismantled a terrorist base" near the eastern town of Tanwalbougou, the armed forces chief of staff said in a weekly bulletin. I...
Renewed clashes in Tunisia's deprived south
Jun 22, 2020 (AFP)
Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who threw stones and burned tyres in the centre of Tataouine city, an AFP correspondent said. Defenc...
Algeria says soldier killed in clash with armed Islamists
Jun 21, 2020 (AFP)
An army detachment clashed with "an armed terrorist group", during an ambush Saturday in the Gaadet Lahdjar area, in the prefecture of Ain Defla, killing corpor...
Algeria weighs plan to allow army deployments abroad
Jun 18, 2020 (AFP)
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has urged a constitutional change that would allow deployments abroad, signalling a departure from a military doctrine that has b...
UN accuses multiple countries of quietly sending arms to DR Congo
Jun 18, 2020 (AFP)
Some of the weapons have fallen into the hands of armed groups operating in the east of the country, warns the confidential report by UN experts that was obtain...
Mass grave found of Sudanese conscripts killed in 1998: prosecutor
Jun 15, 2020 (AFP)
The grim discovery came as part of investigations into misdeeds committed under al-Bashir, who ruled the country with an iron fist before the army deposed him a...
Foreign army incursions, clashes on the rise in DR Congo
Jun 12, 2020 (AFP)
The Democratic Republic of Congo's east is one of Africa's flashpoints, gripped by militia violence which has claimed more than 1,000 lives in a matter of month...
Protests erupt in Djibouti over detention of military officer
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
Hundreds took to the streets of Djibouti city on June 4 before being brutally dispersed by police, who then made spot arrests throughout the capital, according ...
About 10 dead in jihadist attack on I.Coast border post
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
It is the first assault by Islamist extremists on Ivorian soil since March 2016, when a raid on the southeastern beach resort of Grand-Bassam left 19 people dea...
Clean cold experts explore how people in Africa can access COVID-19 vaccine
Jun 09, 2020 (SPX)
Mass, rapid COVID-19 vaccination will be an immense challenge for sub-Saharan Africa countries with significant rural populations and existing cold-chain infras...
Trauma lingers from DR Congo's 'Six-Day War,' 20 years on
Jun 08, 2020 (AFP)
The anniversary of the battle between Rwanda and Uganda is being recalled internationally by just a single event -- the launch on Wednesday of a documentary sel...
Angola's probe of dos Santos 'improper and unfair': lawyer
Jun 07, 2020 (AFP)
Dos Santos, said to be the wealthiest woman in Africa, is accused of diverting billions of dollars from Angolan state companies during her father Jose Eduardo d...
Mali vows to investigate after army accused of deadly village attack
Jun 06, 2020 (AFP)
Some 30 people were killed and a village burnt in the region, officials said, but it was unclear who was behind the latest violence. Friday's attack targeted a ...
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