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Anti-terror force in Sahel begins officer training

Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)

Thirty-five senior officers were inducted into the G5 Sahel Defence Academy, located in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, for an eight-month course, an AFP re...

Two Nigerian soldiers killed in mine blasts: sources

Oct 14, 2018 (AFP)

The two incidents occurred on Saturday, a military officer told AFP. "We lost two soldiers in the incidents. Nine others and three civilian vigilantes were inju...

Nigerian troops foil Boko Haram attack on base: army

Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)

Troops "successfully repelled (a) Boko Haram terrorist attack" on a base in the town of Arge in Borno state on Friday, army spokesman Texas Chukwu said in a sta...

Gambia set to probe pain of past in Truth Commission

Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)

Dubbed the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC), the panel faces high expectations of justice in this struggling young democracy. But it is f...

Elite soldiers protest over pay at Ethiopia PM's office

Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)

In an unusual break with discipline, a group of "disgruntled" elite soldiers, who had been sent to quell bloody ethnic clashes on the capital's outskirts, march...

Hunting a shadowy armed militia in DR Congo's 'triangle of death'

Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)

There has been a recent spike in violence in this volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a sh...

Gabon ruling party claims first-round election landslide

Oct 07, 2018 (AFP)

"We have observed what looks like... a landslide in favour of the (ruling) majority," said presidential spokesman Ike Ngouoni, citing results posted publicly at...

French air strike in Burkina Faso kills rebels: army

Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)

The French intervention came after heavily armed rebels killed a paramilitary gendarme in an attack at Inata, in the northern Soum province, overnight Wednesday...

Six killed in rebel attack on DR Congo military post: army

Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)

The Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is suspected of having carried out Thursday night's attack in the city of Beni, which sits near the DRC border with U...

Kivu, Africa's Great Lakes battleground

Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)

The fighting inflicts on Kivu -- which is divided into North and South provinces -- near-daily killings, rape, mutilations and other atrocities, with scores of ...

Humans delayed the formation of the Sahara desert by half a millennium

Oct 01, 2018 (UPI)

The Sahara only became the desert it's known as today some 5,500 years ago. Some 8,000 years ago, the band stretching across North Africa was green, home to div...

Fair-trade deals provide safety net for Ivorian cocoa producers

Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)

Then the world's number one producer was whacked, as oversupply and falling demand from health-conscious consumers hit prices. But some producers proudly say th...

Sierra Leone expels 38 Chinese for 'child labour' in mining

Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)

"The Chinese are accused of involvement in illicit mining causing environmental degradation and child labour," police spokesman Brima Kamara said. Men, girls an...

Nigerian troops repel Boko Haram attack on base: sources

Sep 25, 2018 (AFP)

Dozens of jihadist fighters from an Islamic State-backed Boko Haram faction attacked the base on Sunday in the village of Kekeno, near the garrison town of Mong...

'Say no to China': Anger mounts in Zambia over Beijing's presence

Sep 23, 2018 (AFP)

The demonstrator, James Lukuku, who leads a small political party, was picked up by police and spent several hours in a cell reflecting on his one-man protest. ...

US, allied forces attacked in Somalia: Pentagon

Sep 22, 2018 (AFP)

The incident occurred on Friday 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Kismayo in the south of the Horn of Africa country where Somali commandos work side-by-sid...

Lake Victoria, African lifeline regularly hit by sinkings

Sep 21, 2018 (AFP)

Here is some background on the vast lake where more than 100 people drowned on Thursday when a ferry capsized. - Largest in Africa - With a surface of 70,000 sq...

Algeria's air force chief fired amid military shake-up

Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)

Armed Forces Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaid Salah was to chair a ceremony on Tuesday at which major-general Hamid Boumaiza would assume the role of air force chief, ...

Fish shortage sparks conflict on Africa's Great Lakes

Sep 14, 2018 (AFP)

"Stop the boat, hands up, surrender any weapons," yelled Lieutenant Deogratius Kato as the soldiers surrounded a motorised canoe after a 20-minute chase, pointi...

Nigeria troops repel fresh Boko Haram base attack

Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)

Scores of fighters attacked the base in Damasak, in the far north of Borno state, on Wednesday evening, firing heavy artillery in an apparent bid to overrun it....