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Two French crew died in crash that killed Libyan army chiefParis, France (AFP) Dec 26, 2025 Two French crew members of a Falcon 50 jet died in the crash this week in Turkey that killed Libya's armed forces chief, a French diplomatic source told AFP on Friday. ... more  
Wagner stronghold in CAR holds the line despite Kremlin shakeupLibreville, Gabon (AFP) Dec 23, 2025 A mural depicting Vladimir Putin and fatigue-clad Russian paramilitary fighters has appeared in the Central African Republic ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections as the country seeks to recover from decades of violence. ... more 
Benin president says bulk of military not behind failed coupCotonou, Benin (AFP) Dec 18, 2025 Benin President Patrice Talon said Thursday that the bulk of the army did not back a recent foiled coup bid whose leaders recruited young trainee soldiers. ... more  
Neural network sharpens satellite ocean color in complex coastal watersTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 A recent study presents ACA-SIM, an atmospheric correction algorithm that uses satellite-in situ matchup data and neural networks to improve ocean color retrievals over coastal waters. The approach ... more |
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Ivory Coast ruling party set for election landslide: early resultsAbidjan (AFP) Dec 28, 2025 The ruling party in Ivory Coast was headed for a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, according to early results announced Sunday which already credit it with an outright majority in the national assembly. ... more 
UN urges end to arbitrary detentions in Guinea-BissauGeneva (AFP) Dec 26, 2025 The UN rights office welcomed Friday the release of six opposition members detained since last month's coup in Guinea-Bissau but insisted all arbitrary detentions in the west African country must end. ... more 
Sudan's El-Fasher under the RSF, destroyed and 'full of bodies'Cairo (AFP) Dec 19, 2025 When Sudanese nurse Asmaa returned to the Darfur city of El-Fasher, she found only bodies where her neighbours once lived and no sign of the family she had come to save. ... more  
Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton dies at 83Nairobi (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 Scottish conservationist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who pioneered new understandings of African elephants and made protecting the giant pachyderms a life-long passion, has died at the age of 83, his charity said Tuesday. ... more |
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Field work on South Africa's "living rocks" reveals rapid carbon capture in extreme conditionsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 South Africa preserves some of the oldest traces of life on Earth in rocky, layered formations known as microbialites, which resemble coral reefs but are built by microbes that turn dissolved minera ... more |
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Foreign satellites ride Kinetica 1 on new CAS Space missionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 CAS Space has carried out the 11th launch of its Kinetica 1 solid-fuel carrier rocket, orbiting nine satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China. The ... more  
Flash flood kills dozens in Morocco townSafi, Morocco (AFP) Dec 15, 2025 A flash flood in a Moroccan coastal town has killed at least 37 people, local officials said on Monday, as search and rescue operations continued. ... more 
Tech tracking to tackle human-wildlife conflict in ZimbabweHwange, Zimbabwe (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 In the sun-scorched lands bordering Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, Takesure Moyo pedals through his village each morning on a mission to help his community coexist with the elephants and predators that roam nearby. ... more  
South Africa's informal miners fight for their future in coal's twilightErmelo, South Africa (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 Growing up, Cyprial dreamed of being a lawyer. Instead, he now spends his days underground, swinging a pickaxe against rock in a pitch-black illegal mine that snakes for kilometres beneath South Africa's coal heartland. ... more |
200 W.African troops aiding Benin in post-coup 'clean-up': govtAbuja (AFP) Dec 11, 2025 Some 200 Nigerian and Ivorian troops are in Benin as part of a security mission supporting the government after a weekend coup attempt, the country's foreign minister said Thursday. ... more  |
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Crew killed in Sudan army plane crash; Russia says no survivors in cargo plane crash Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 A Sudanese military transport aircraft crashed on Tuesday while attempting to land at an air base in the country's east, killing all members of its crew, two military sources told AFP. ... more
Benin hunts soldiers behind failed coupCotonou, Benin (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 Benin's military was Monday searching for fugitive soldiers behind a foiled coup attempt on the weekend that left several dead as other west African countries mobilised to offer military support. ... more
Why west African troops overturned Benin's coup but watched others pass byAbidjan (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 When Benin's government over the weekend fought back a coup attempt, they had unlikely help: troops and air strikes from neighbouring countries. ... more
G.Bissau junta says coup leader barred from running for presidentBissau (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 Guinea-Bissau's ruling junta, which seized power last month, has said that its leading general will not be allowed to run for president after handing power back to civilians. ... more |
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'Several' deaths in thwarted Benin coup: government Cotonou, Benin (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 Several people died in Benin during a thwarted coup attempt on the weekend, the west African country's government announced Monday after an emergency cabinet meeting. ... more 
Wave kills four in Spain's TenerifeMadrid (AFP) Dec 8, 2025 Four people died in Tenerife over the weekend and one remained missing after a wave swept away bathers on the Spanish tourist island hotspot, according to the authorities. ... more 
Drone strikes on Sudan kindergarten, hospital kill dozens: local officialPort Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Dec 7, 2025 A paramilitary drone attack on the army-held town of Kalogi in Sudan's South Kordofan state hit a kindergarten and a hospital, killing dozens of civilians, a local official told AFP on Sunday. ... more
Benin president says situation 'under control' after coup attemptCotonou, Benin (AFP) Dec 8, 2025 Benin's president said the "situation is completely under control" in his country after the government thwarted an attempted coup thanks to loyalist soldiers with support from Nigerian forces. ... more |
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Unchecked mining waste taints DR Congo communitiesLubumbashi, Dr Congo (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 Carrying her sore-pocked daughter across her decaying field, Helene Mvubu says she is one of thousands to have fallen victim to the toxic waste defiling the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining capital. ... more 
Burkina Faso releases 8 NGO members arrested for 'spying'Abidjan (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 An international NGO in Burkina Faso said Friday that eight of its members had been released, months after the country's military rulers arrested them on accusations of spying. ... more 
'Only a miracle can end this nightmare': Eritreans fear new Ethiopia warAddis Ababa (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 Tewolde has fought multiple times for Eritrea, one of the most closed societies on Earth, and is now praying another war is not about to break out with neighbouring Ethiopia. ... more 
Tech tracking to tackle human-wildlife conflict in ZimbabweHwange, Zimbabwe (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 In the sun-scorched lands bordering Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, Takesure Moyo pedals through his village each morning on a mission to help his community coexist with the elephants and predators that roam nearby. ... more |
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Study says African penguins starved en masse off South AfricaJohannesburg (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said Friday, with some populations dropping by 95 percent in just eight years. ... more |
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Spire soil data to support conflict early warning in Ethiopias Somali RegionLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Spire Global has been selected by GIST Research to supply satellite-derived Soil Moisture Insights for a project that links climate conditions to pastoralist movements and conflict risks in Ethiopia ... more 
Ghana e waste workers trapped in toxic survival trade offLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A University of Michigan team has analyzed how people living and working around the Agbogbloshie e waste site in Accra, Ghana, depend on informal recycling to earn a living while facing severe toxic ... more
G.Bissau junta claims 'ethnic civil war' risk justifies coupBissau (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 Guinea-Bissau's military authorities on Thursday justified taking power in the small west African nation by arguing the country faced the "risk of ethnic civil war" after last month's elections. ... more 
Amnesty urges war crimes probe into Sudan refugee camp attackPort Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 Rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that a large-scale attack by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a refugee camp earlier this year "must be investigated for war crimes". ... more |
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