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Senegal stands firm in Russian trawler row
Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)
Two weeks after impounding a Russian trawler accused of illegal fishing in its waters, Senegal has not blinked in the face of huge diplomatic pressure from one ...
Point of no return: can peace talks stop S. Sudan's war?
Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)
As East African mediators attempt to push South Sudan's government and rebels into signing a truce, analysts and diplomats fear it may already be too late to ha...
Nigerian military brass sacked after court ruling
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday sacked his military top brass leading the fight against Boko Haram insurgents, following a court judgement tha...
Central Africa begins search for new leader after bloodbath
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
The Central African Republic began the search for a peacemaker president Tuesday after months of traumatic conflict that saw unprecedented sectarian violence wi...
Uganda parliament backs troops in South Sudan
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
Uganda's parliament endorsed Tuesday the government's decision to send troops to neighbouring war-ravaged South Sudan, with the defence minister saying the army...
Hundreds of deserting C.Africa troops return to their command
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
Hundreds of deserting Central African Republic soldiers and police returned to their commands on Monday as the interim president said "the party is over" follow...
US deploys small team of military advisers to Somalia
Jan 11, 2014 (AFP)
The United States has sent a handful of military advisers to Somalia in recent months to help bolster an African Union force fighting Islamist militants there, ...
EU nations favourable on joint military mission to Africa
Jan 10, 2014 (AFP)
European Union nations agreed in principle Friday on a plan to launch a joint military operation in Central Africa to help restore security there amid fears of ...
China vows to champion African interests
Jan 10, 2014 (AFP)
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi vowed Friday that his country would "always be a champion" of African causes as he began a two-day trip to Senegal. He hailed t...
China says investment in Africa 'mutually beneficial'
Jan 09, 2014 (AFP)
China's foreign minister Wang Yi on Thursday promised that his country's economic growth would benefit Africa, as he met Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama i...
China to work with Ghana on illegal mining: FM
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
China's foreign minister on Wednesday said Beijing was tackling illegal gold mining in Ghana, after hundreds of his compatriots were arrested and sent home for ...
EU eyes military mission in C. Africa to deter massacres
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
EU nations are considering a joint military operation in Central Africa amid looming fears of civilian massacres, but there may be little appetite for boots on ...
A year after Mali action, France remains 'Africa's gendarme'
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
A year after dispatching warplanes and troops to repel an Islamist incursion in Mali, France is fighting in another of its former colonies, demonstrating it is ...
French defence minister sees no need for more troops in C. Africa
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday there is currently no need to send reinforcements to Central Africa, where it has 1,600 deployed troops ...
Colonel Ndala: slain hope of reformed DR Congo army
Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)
Defections, corruption, war crimes -- DR Congo's top military commanders have tended to make headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years. So the rocket ...
Fighting across South Sudan despite peace talks: army
Jan 05, 2014 (AFP)
Fighting was continuing across South Sudan on Sunday, the army said, even as peace talks between the government and rebels were set to begin in neighbouring Eth...
Attacks on Chadians in C.Africa will not go 'unpunished': president
Jan 03, 2014 (AFP)
Chad's President Idriss Dby Itno on Friday vowed that attacks on Chadian nationals in the restive Central African Republic would not go "unpunished". While visi...
South Sudan army to probe civilian killings: government
Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)
South Sudan's army has set up a probe into the killing of "innocent people", the government said Thursday, in the wake of grim reports of ethnic slaughter and a...
C. Africa won't sap France's military: minister
Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)
France's military mission in the Central African Republic will not suck in its troops in an expanding role, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian vowed Thursday d...
Seven die in Cameroon clash between army and C.Africa gunmen
Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)
Seven people, including two Cameroonian soldiers, have been killed in an attack on eastern Cameroon by an armed group from the Central African Republic, a secur...
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