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Jihadists attack two military positions in Mali



Bamako (AFP) Aug 20, 2025
Jihadists have attacked two military installations in Mali, according to the army and other sources, with residents telling AFP Wednesday that both areas came under serious assault. The attacks, which took place Tuesday, were claimed by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists from the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, known by its Arabic acronym JNIM. For more than a decade Mali has faced violence from fighters linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, as well as from separatist movements ... read more

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AFRICA NEWS
France discussing 'unjustified' arrest of citizen in Mali
Paris (AFP) Aug 16, 2025
France's foreign ministry said Saturday that it was in talks with Mali over the arrest of a Frenchman accused of working with intelligence services to "destabilise" the country, calling the clai ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Evicted from their forests, Kenyan hunter-gatherers fight for their rights
Narok, Kenya (AFP) Aug 22, 2025
Fred Ngusilo stoops to pick up a leather pouch, once used to collect honey, and a discarded shoe from the Mau forest floor, painful reminders that his Ogiek hunter-gatherer community once quietl ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Landslide kills 15 in Guinea; Bridge site in China collapses 7 dead, 9 missing
Conakry (AFP) Aug 21, 2025
At least 15 people were killed in a landslide near the Guinean capital, Conakry, a hospital source told AFP on Thursday. The landslide happened on Wednesday night in the Maneah area after he ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Japan hosts African leaders for development conference
Yokohama, Japan (AFP) Aug 20, 2025
Japan hosted African leaders on Wednesday for a three-day development conference, offering itself as an alternative to China as the continent reels from a debt crisis exacerbated by Western aid ... more
ABOUT US
New Ethiopian fossil find reveals unknown Australopithecus species alongside early Homo
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
The discovery of a previously unknown Australopithecus species, found alongside the earliest known Homo fossils, is reshaping understanding of human evolution, according to new UNLV-led research in ... more
WOOD PILE
Uganda biomass use may improve through Aston University mapping data
London, UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
New research from Aston University could transform how Uganda manages its biomass resources by providing community-level data instead of national averages. Scientists at the Energy and Bioprod ... more
FARM NEWS
Global food system reforms urged to reverse land degradation and climate threats
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
In a new paper in Nature, 21 scientists outline strategies to transform global food systems as a top priority to curb land degradation, mitigate climate change, and protect biodiversity. Their model ... more
AFRICA NEWS
WFP aid convoy attacked in Sudan's Darfur
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Aug 20, 2025
An aid convoy operated by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) came under attack on Wednesday near the famine-hit Sudanese town of Mellit in North Darfur, the agency's spokesperson told AFP. ... more

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WOOD PILE
Fight to save last forests of the Comoros unites farmers, NGOs
Mutsamudu, Comoros (AFP) Aug 18, 2025
/> Strips of bare land scar the lush and green mountainsides towering above Mutsamudu, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan. On the most mountainous and densely populated island in ... more
EARLY EARTH
Fossil discoveries in southern Africa reveal life before catastrophic Permian extinction
Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
An international research team has spent more than 15 years unearthing fossils across southern Africa to better understand life in the Permian period, which began 299 million years ago and ended 252 ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Nigeria deports 60 Chinese, 39 Filipino scammers
Lagos (AFP) Aug 21, 2025
Nigeria has deported 102 foreigners including 60 Chinese nationals and 39 Filipinos convicted of "cyber-terrorism and internet fraud", its anti-corruption agency said Thursday. The Economic ... more
TECH SPACE
Cannabis leaves yield rare flavoalkaloids with pharmaceutical promise
London, UK (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
Analytical chemists at Stellenbosch University report the first evidence of flavoalkaloids in Cannabis leaves, a rare class of phenolics. Using three South African strains, they cataloged 79 phenoli ... more
WATER WORLD
Tourism deal puts one of Egypt's last wild shores at risk
Wadi Al-Gemal National Park, Egypt (AFP) Aug 18, 2025
/> In Egypt's Wadi al-Gemal, where swimmers share a glistening bay with sea turtles, a shadowy tourism deal is threatening one of the Red Sea's last wild shores. Off Ras Hankorab, the endangere ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Niger magistrates call strike after junta dissolved unions
Niamey, Niger (AFP) Aug 15, 2025
/> Niger magistrates called for a strike on Friday after the military government dissolved judicial unions and dismissed two of their members. The junta, which seized power in the west African ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW
Hundreds of houses damaged in northeast Nigeria flood
Maiduguri, Nigeria (AFP) Aug 15, 2025
/> Torrential rains sparked intense floods and damaged hundreds of homes in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum, emergency authorities and a local resident told AFP on Friday. Weather autho ... more
WEATHER REPORT
'Like hell': Indoor heat overwhelms Saudi Arabia's cooks, bakers
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Aug 15, 2025
/> Baker Eid Ahmed just can't get away from Saudi Arabia's notorious heat: he makes bread next to a sweltering oven for 13 hours a day, only to step outside into summer temperatures that can soar p ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Ivory Coast village reburies relatives as rising sea engulfs cemetery
Grand-Lahou, Ivory Coast (AFP) Aug 15, 2025
/> Fisherman Alphonse Akadie was forced to exhume the bodies of his relatives last year from the village cemetery in Ivory Coast to avoid their remains being carried off into the ocean. Over th ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Russia hosts first military meeting with Sahel juntas; Mali junta accuses foreign powers of destabilisation plot
Moscow (AFP) Aug 14, 2025
/> Russia hosted its first official meeting with the heads of militaries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, Moscow's defence ministry said Thursday, as it seeks to increase its influence in the Sahel ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Mali junta accuses foreign powers of destabilisation plot
Dakar (AFP) Aug 14, 2025
/> The authorities in Mali on Thursday said a French national had been arrested on suspicion of working for French intelligence services, and accused "foreign states" of trying to destabilise the c ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
4.4 million Somalis face severe hunger: disaster agency
Nairobi (AFP) Aug 14, 2025
/> More than four million people in Somalia face "acute food insecurity", while over 100,000 have been displaced by conflict since June, its disaster authorities said Thursday. Somalia is grapp ... more
OIL AND GAS
Court halts TotalEnergies South African oil exploration
Johannesburg (AFP) Aug 14, 2025
/> A South African court has refused environmental authorisation for planned offshore drilling by French energy giant TotalEnergies near the foot of Africa, in a ruling seen by AFP Thursday. T ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Highly magnetized galaxies at cosmic noon shrouded in energetic cosmic ray halos
London, UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
A multinational team led by the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), with contributions from the Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) and the University of ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Malnutrition in Sudan's El-Fasher kills 63 in a week: health official
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Aug 10, 2025
Malnutrition has killed 63 people, mostly women and children, in just one week in Sudan's besieged city of El-Fasher, a senior health official said Sunday, as fighting between the army and rival paramilitaries intensifies in the western region. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Malian army roots out alleged anti-junta plotters
Bamako (AFP) Aug 11, 2025
Mali's junta has carried out arrests to quash an alleged plot to overthrow the government within the army's ranks, sources told AFP, but the circumstances of the detentions remain unexplained. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Portuguese navy boosts patrols after rare migrant landing
Lisbon (AFP) Aug 9, 2025
Portugal's Navy said Saturday it has increased patrols along the country's southern coast following the arrival of a migrant boat, a rare destination among migrant routes from North Africa to Europe. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Spain busts criminal ring shipping hazardous waste to Ghana
Madrid (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
Spanish police have broken up a criminal network accused of illegally exporting hazardous waste to Ghana, authorities said Friday. ... more
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S.African president spoke to Zelensky after call with Putin
Johannesburg (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
South Africa's president said he spoke to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky Friday, a day after he had a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss "peace process efforts". ... more
FARM NEWS
Nigerian scientists await return of Egusi seeds sent to space
Abuja (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
If Earthlings are ever going to colonise Mars, they won't be able to do so on an empty stomach - and Temidayo Oniosun thinks a helping of Egusi soup, a Nigerian staple, might just hit the spot. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Lioness present in northeast C.Africa for first time in years; New species teem in Cambodia's threatened karst
Libreville (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
A conservation group says it has photographic evidence of the presence of a female lion in a national park in northeastern Central African Republic for the first time in six years. ... more
OIL AND GAS
Mozambique insurgency grows at 'sensitive' time for TotalEnergies' return
Maputo (AFP) Aug 9, 2025
Jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique have multiplied their attacks in the past weeks, causing mass displacements ahead of the possible resumption of construction on TotalEnergies' huge natural gas project in the region. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
DR Congo-M23 talks taking longer than expected; ICC unseals Libya war crimes warrant
Doha (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
Talks on measures to build confidence between M23 rebels and the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of formal peace talks are taking longer than expected, an official with knowledge of the issue said Thursday. ... more
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