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France looks to recast Africa role at summit

Dec 05, 2013 (AFP)

France will seek to recast its role in Africa at a summit starting Friday, hoping to shed its image as the continent's policeman even as it prepares to send tro...

Mali defence minister vows to support coup leader's trial

Dec 02, 2013 (AFP)

Mali's defence minister vowed Monday he would not pose "any obstacle" to the court case against General Amadou Sanogo, the leader of a March 2012 coup that plun...

French army buildup in CAR unlikely to quell bloodshed

Dec 02, 2013 (UPI)

France deployed more than 200 troops by the weekend in the crisis-torn Central African Republic, once part of its African empire, and is expected to send anothe...

Several said dead in air raid in Sudan's Darfur: peacekeepers

Nov 30, 2013 (AFP)

Several people have been reported killed in an air strike in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, international peacekeepers said Saturday. "UNAMID has received info...

Nigeria military says bombed Boko Haram camps

Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)

Air strikes on Boko Haram camps in northeast Nigeria have killed "many" insurgents, the military said Thursday of latest operation aimed at crushing the four-ye...

Mozambique police fire tear gas at anti-conscription protest

Nov 27, 2013 (AFP)

Police fired tear gas Wednesday to disperse youths rioting in central Mozambique after reports of forced conscription as the military battles a revived rebel gr...

Chinese businessman charged in Zambia graft case

Nov 26, 2013 (AFP)

Zambian prosecutors charged the representative of a Chinese construction company with graft Tuesday, in a case involving embattled ex-president Rupiah Banda. Ja...

Somalia troops boosted as al-Shabaab fights on

Nov 21, 2013 (UPI)

The United Nations has approved plans for the African Union to build up its peacekeeping force in Somalia to more than 22,000 troops, to support the shaky Weste...

Chinese candidate a Shanghai surprise in Mali polls

Nov 17, 2013 (AFP)

Unassuming and affable, election candidate Astan Coulibaly would be unremarkable on the campaign trail in Mali, except that as a Chinese national she has been h...

Algeria only NAfrica state to block rights visits: HRW

Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)

Algeria, which was just elected to the UN Human Rights Council, is the only North African country to "systematically" block visits by watchdogs, a Human Rights ...

Nigerian troops claim nine Boko Haram members killed

Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)

Nigerian troops said Friday they had killed nine suspected members of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in a gunfight in the country's northeast. "In a midnig...

Five killed in Sudan friendly-fire shooting: army

Nov 14, 2013 (AFP)

Friendly fire killed five members of the Sudanese security forces Thursday in South Kordofan state, where troops are battling an insurgency, the military said. ...

DR Congo needs rebel reintegration plan: UN

Nov 13, 2013 (AFP)

The Democratic Republic of Congo needs a plan to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate ex-rebels, the United Nations said Wednesday, a week after helping the army ...

Small bag offers solution to Kenyan slum's 'flying toilets'

Nov 13, 2013 (AFP)

The usually straightforward act of going to the toilet is far from simple in Kibera, the sprawling slum on the edge of Kenya's capital. Hundreds of thousands of...

Greece holds 'suspicious' arms-laden ship: minister

Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)

Greece said Monday it would hold as unsafe a Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship that was seized last week laden with arms and ammunition possibly bound for war-rav...

Christian-Muslim bloodbath devastates Central African Republic

Nov 11, 2013 (UPI)

The mineral-rich Central African Republic is collapsing into chaos amid a worsening religious conflict between Christians and Muslims that could trigger genocid...

DR Congo, M23 rebels fail to sign peace deal

Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)

The Democratic Republic of Congo and defeated M23 rebels Monday failed to sign a peace deal hoped to be a key step in stabilising the conflict-prone east after ...

Senegal, Casamance rebels set talks agenda: mediation

Nov 10, 2013 (AFP)

Senegal and the Casamance separatists have agreed on an agenda for peace talks aimed at ending the three-decade rebellion, Catholic mediators in the process sai...

Troubled Mali names new army chief

Nov 09, 2013 (AFP)

Mali's government said Saturday it had named a new army chief of staff, two months after the country's new president took office seeking to restore stability fo...

Controversial Tanzanian anti-poaching drive to continue: Kikwete

Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)

Tanzania will continue a controversial anti-poaching operation, President Jakaya Kikwete said Thursday, overturning a suspension following reports of rampant hu...