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China's vast investment in Africa hits a snag in Congo
Apr 28, 2019 (AFP)
While the funding it provided to Congo wasn't part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which China was promoting this week, it serves as a cautionary tale of...
Regional bloc invites S.Sudan rivals to Addis talks
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional bloc for East Africa, extended the invitation on Wednesday to the two sides, led by President ...
Sudan army rulers order protesters to remove blockades
Apr 22, 2019 (AFP)
The order came a day after protest leaders suspended talks with the ruling military council about transferring power to a civilian administration -- the key dem...
Landslide in northern Malawi kills three, injures many
Apr 21, 2019 (AFP)
Rumphi police spokesperson Tupeliwe Kabwilo told AFP that incessant rains in the area led to the landslide early Saturday which washed away an entire village ne...
South Sudan opposition urges delay to unity government
Apr 17, 2019 (AFP)
Machar was meant to return to South Sudan in May and join a power-sharing government as vice president with President Salva Kiir after the signing of a peace de...
S.Sudan peace accord progress falling 'way short': monitor
Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)
"It is clear that achievements have fallen way short of what was intended for the Pre-Transitional Period," said Augostino Njoroge, interim chairman of the moni...
Sudan army ousts Bashir, protestors vow further demos
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
In a sombre televised address, Defence Minister Awad Ibnouf announced "the toppling of the regime" and said Bashir had been detained in "a secure place", bringi...
30 jihadists 'killed or captured' in French-Malian raids near Burkina
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
The operation is the first since French forces set up a base south of the bend of the Niger River, building an advance position outside the town of Gossi in the...
Sudan army ranks seem to be tilting towards protestors: analysts
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
Thousands of protesters have been camping outside the military complex housing Bashir's official residence in Khartoum since Saturday, braving tear gas and dead...
Mali soldiers, spooked by friendly fire, shoot civilians
Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)
The shooting took place Monday in Dioura in central Mali, where a jihadist attack on March 17 killed 26 soldiers. In a statement, the military said a group of s...
Defiant Sudan protesters seek army talks
Apr 08, 2019 (AFP)
The east African country has been rocked by more than three months of protests that erupted over a hike in bread prices before transforming into nationwide demo...
US admits first civilian casualties in Somalia airstrikes
Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)
The toll of two civilians deaths, from an April 2018 strike, is still far lower than the number investigators from Amnesty International believe have been kille...
French troops move to Mali's crossroads region in anti-jihad push
Apr 04, 2019 (AFP)
The base will be the newest outpost of Operation Barkhane, France's 4,500-strong anti-jihadist force which is headquartered in Chad but also operates in Burkina...
S.Sudan holds breath as fragile peace faces crucial test
Apr 03, 2019 (AFP)
Encouraged by a six-month lull in fighting as a peace deal holds for the first time since 2015, the family last month joined scores of others warily returning h...
Algeria army demands start of impeachment against Bouteflika
Apr 02, 2019 (AFP)
Armed forces chief Ahmed Gaid Salah called for "the immediate application of the constitutional procedure for removing the head of state from power", in a defen...
Rwanda's genocide killers learn new life back home
Apr 01, 2019 (AFP)
These are men who helped carry out Rwanda's horrific 1994 genocide, and then formed a rebel army that has been fighting ever since. After the carnage of the Rwa...
Cellphone apps fight Africa's taboos
Mar 28, 2019 (AFP)
The brilliant young woman's life may have been spared if she had the kind of apps that are available today that discreetly inform young people about sex, Akhimi...
General Gaid Salah: key figure of power in Algeria
Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)
Born in 1940 in the Batna region, 300 kilometres (186 miles) southeast of Algiers, he was 17 when he joined the National Liberation Army which for three years b...
Comoros President Azali re-elected in a landslide
Mar 26, 2019 (AFP)
Azali, who first took office in 2016, was credited with 60.77 percent of the vote following Sunday's election, far ahead of his closest rival Mahamoudou Ahamada...
Algeria army chief demands Bouteflika be declared unfit to rule
Mar 26, 2019 (AFP)
The move would potentially clear the way for elections to be organised in the coming months unless the president recovers. "It is necessary, even imperative, to...
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