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Kenya boosts airport defence, warning of Islamist threat

Feb 25, 2014 (AFP)

Kenya's security chiefs on Tuesday ordered that defences be boosted around the capital's airport, including against possible missile attack amid "increased thre...

Five bodies exhumed in Mali thought to be murdered soldiers

Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)

Five bodies thought be the remains of soldiers murdered over their allegiance to overthrown Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure were exhumed near the capital ...

Outgoing CEO says S.Africa's Naspers to push online business

Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)

South Africa-based global media conglomerate Naspers -- which holds stakes in China's Tencent and Mail.Ru -- will strengthen its e-commerce operations under its...

China-Africa trade surpassed $200 billion in 2013: Xi

Feb 20, 2014 (AFP)

China-Africa trade totalled more than $200 billion last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday, highlighting the Asian powerhouse's burgeoning trade a...

France, Germany to send parts of joint brigade to Mali

Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)

France and Germany will send parts of a joint military brigade to Mali in its first deployment to Africa, a statement said Wednesday. "France and Germany have d...

The new Africa -- green shoots in biosciences

Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)

This key session will bring African experts in person to Chicago to report on how agricultural biotechnology is starting to have a real impact on the crucial sm...

Sudan-rebel peace talks adjourn with little progress

Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)

Peace talks between Sudan and South Kordofan rebels adjourned Tuesday until the end of the month, after failing to progress on key issues since negotiations kic...

China pillages Africa like old colonialists: Jane Goodall

Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)

China is exploiting Africa's resources just like European colonisers did, with disastrous effects for the environment, acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall has ...

Rights group urges S. Sudan, Uganda to probe cluster bomb use

Feb 15, 2014 (AFP)

South Sudan and Uganda must investigate the use of banned cluster bombs in the recent fighting for the town of Bor, Human Rights Watch said Saturday. United Nat...

Africans get a kick out of Shaolin kung fu

Feb 15, 2014 (AFP)

Ten grey-suited Buddhists crouch like leopards stalking a muntjac before barrelling across the stage in an explosion of gravity-defying pivots, kicks and somers...

Uganda says wanted top LRA rebel 'may be dead'

Feb 15, 2014 (AFP)

The wanted deputy of Uganda's murderous Lord's Resistance Army rebels, Okot Odhiambo, may have been killed in recent fighting, the Ugandan defence minister told...

Libya denies rumours of impending coup

Feb 14, 2014 (AFP)

Libya's government and armed forces on Friday moved to quash rumours of an impending coup after a retired general called for parliament and the government to be...

Poaching threatens savannah ecosystems

Feb 14, 2014 (SPX)

White rhinoceros may be extinct in twenty years with the current poaching rates. The loss of this megaherbivore is in itself a tragedy, but it may also have tre...

France in race to find troops for EU C.Africa mission

Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)

The race is on to find hundreds of troops for the EU's military mission in the troubled Central African Republic, the French head of the operation said Thursday...

Boko Haram raid kills nine Nigeria troops

Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)

Boko Haram gunmen killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast, a local official and a hospital source...

DRC president declares amnesty for former M23 rebels

Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, announced an amnesty on Wednesday for former members of the defeated M23 rebel army. The amnes...

French defence chief urges crackdown on C.Africa militias

Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Tuesday called on the international forces deployed in the restive Central African Republic to put an end to bruta...

US hails French role in stemming African conflicts

Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)

The United States Tuesday praised France's "key" role in helping to quell unrest and extremist violence in parts of Africa as French President Francois Hollande...

C. Africa militia is 'enemy of peace': French commander

Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)

The commander of French troops in the Central African Republic on Monday accused a militia known as the anti-balaka of being the country's "main enemy of peace"...

South Sudan peace talks postponed: officials

Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)

The second round of peace talks on South Sudan, scheduled to start later Monday, has been postponed, officials said. "The talks are not resuming today," South S...