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Kenya's Lake Turkana put on World Heritage danger list
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee expressed concern about the disruptive effect of Ethiopia's Gibe III dam "on...
Amid thaw, Ethiopia and Eritrea leaders plan to meet
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
The news comes days after senior Eritrean officials paid their first visit to Ethiopia in two decades following Abiy's offer to cede land that Eritrea claims Et...
Pursuing poachers, and tourism, to boost Mozambique's conservation
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
On one side of the 150-foot (46-metre) high dam lies the vast regional Great Limpopo Transfrontier conservation area and its protected game animals. While on th...
Mozambique's leader wants Renamo to disarm immediately
Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)
The disarmament and integration of Renamo fighters into the regular army and police has been a major sticking point in any peace deal and government would want ...
Gambia leader meets victims' families after deadly protest
Jun 22, 2018 (AFP)
"You are the people that witnessed what happened here that day," Barrow told his audience in the village of Faraba Banta, 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the capi...
Death toll from Gambia protest rises to three
Jun 20, 2018 (AFP)
"Amadou Nyang, who was shot by Police Intervention Unit personnel during the protest, passed away at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital early Wednesday ...
Boko Haram kills nine soldiers in Nigeria
Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)
Both attacks came as the government, which says the jihadists are on the verge of defeat, urges those displaced by the conflict to return to their homes across ...
Gambia president vows justice after police kill two protesters
Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)
Bakary Kujabi and Ismaila Bah were killed by police on Monday during a demonstration in the village of Faraba Banta against a sand excavation site protesters sa...
Gambian police kill two anti-pollution protestors
Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)
The office of the police inspector general said a clash between villagers and police led to the "regrettable death" of two men and left several others injured. ...
Uganda commissions new Chinese highway to ease congestion
Jun 15, 2018 (AFP)
The four-lane, 51-kilometre (32-mile) "Kampala-Entebbe Expressway" is expected to cut the journey time on the currently congested route from several hours to ar...
France, Britain, US put UN hold on Chinese arms deliveries to C. Africa
Jun 15, 2018 (AFP)
CAR's defense minister asked a UN sanctions committee on June 5 to grant an exemption to an arms embargo and allow the shipments of Chinese-made armored vehicle...
Britain begins W.Africa deployment in support of France
Jun 14, 2018 (AFP)
"The first troops from the British Chinook deployment, which will comprise three heavy transport helicopters and will be deployed in Gao ( northern Mali) have a...
For Ethiopia's Abiy, big reforms carry big risks
Jun 13, 2018 (AFP)
Last week alone, Abiy shook up the security services, ended a nationwide state of emergency and announced plans to liberalise the economy and resolve a two-deca...
New EU 'peace fund' could buy weapons for Africa
Jun 13, 2018 (AFP)
The bloc says the new European Peace Facility (EPF) is needed to make its training missions in three African countries more effective and to enable it to contri...
US commando killed, four wounded in Somalia attack
Jun 09, 2018 (AFP)
The attack occurred in Jubaland, where a large force comprising about 800 Somali, Kenyan and US troops were working to clear a large area of Al-Qaeda-aligned Al...
New perspectives on African migration
Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)
Demographic expansion will by itself lead to an increase in the absolute number of people on the move. Currently the majority remain on the African continent, w...
Violence shuts Africa's Virunga gorilla park till 2019
Jun 04, 2018 (AFP)
Africa's oldest national park, famed for its population of mountain gorillas, has been plagued by the wave of violence that has been wracking eastern DR Congo f...
US says strike kills 27 Shabaab militants in Horn of Africa
Jun 04, 2018 (AFP)
The latest strike occurred on Saturday in Somaliland, about 26 miles (42 kilometers) southwest of Bosasso port in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region. A statemen...
US says air strike kills 12 militants in Somalia
Jun 01, 2018 (AFP)
It said US forces conducted the strike on Thursday in conjunction with Somalia's government about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Mogadishu. The Shabaab w...
Defence minister warns of intervention in Madagascar crisis
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
His warning came after crunch talks between the opposition and government failed to defuse the dispute. "We call on all of the leaders involved in this crisis w...
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