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Political killings drive Libya toward new civil war

Oct 24, 2013 (UPI)

Libya indicted more than 20 officials linked to ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi Thursday, including his son Said al-Islam, in Tripoli, while in the rebellious e...

Mozambique leader calls for talks to end violence

Oct 24, 2013 (AFP)

Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza called for dialogue Thursday, warning of a threat to peace after two days of tit-for-tat violence between government forc...

Mali army carrying out deadly purge: Amnesty

Oct 23, 2013 (AFP)

The Malian army is carrying out a purge of soldiers involved in protests at a barracks outside the capital Bamako last month, Amnesty International said Wednesd...

No plan to scrap US military's Africa Command: general

Oct 23, 2013 (AFP)

The Pentagon has no plans to scrap the US military's Africa Command despite growing pressures on the defense budget, the general who leads the headquarters said...

UN urges DR Congo to prosecute soldiers for rape in east

Oct 20, 2013 (AFP)

The United Nations on Sunday urged the Kinshasa government to prosecute soldiers for dozens of sexual assaults against women in the east of the Democratic Repub...

Angola frees 55 Congolese troops captured during incursion

Oct 18, 2013 (AFP)

Angola on Friday released 55 soldiers from the neighbouring Republic of Congo who were captured earlier this week during an incursion, a Congolese official said...

France to keep 2,000 troops in Mali until end of year

Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)

France will maintain around 2,000 troops in Mali to help secure the December legislative polls before further scaling down its military presence, the defence mi...

Zimbabwe man jailed for 15 years for poisoning elephants

Oct 16, 2013 (AFP)

A Zimbabwe court on Wednesday sentenced a poacher to more than 15 years in prison for poisoning and killing elephants with cyanide, the fourth such conviction i...

U.S. builds up military bases in Italy for African ops

Oct 15, 2013 (UPI)

The U.S. deployment of 200 Marines to a naval base in Sicily for possible operations in Libya, a short hop across the Mediterranean, underlines how the American...

Mali ex-coup leader moves out of army barracks

Oct 14, 2013 (AFP)

Amadou Sanogo, who led a March 2012 coup in Mali, has left the army barracks where he lived to move into a new residence in the capital, defence officials said ...

Islamists step up attacks in north Mali

Oct 08, 2013 (AFP)

Islamic extremists have taken the offensive around Gao in north Mali, wounding two civilians Tuesday when they blew up a bridge, a day after shelling the town a...

Ethiopia says no plans to withdraw troops from Somalia

Oct 04, 2013 (AFP)

Ethiopia will not withdraw its troops from Somalia in the wake of the deadly attacks in Kenya, the Prime Minister said Friday. "There is no reason we are withdr...

'Armed bandits' kill Niger soldier, wound three others in Nigeria: official

Oct 03, 2013 (AFP)

"Armed bandits" have killed a Niger soldier and seriously wounded three others in Nigeria's volatile north-east, a high-ranking Niger security official told AFP...

Nigeria bombs Boko Haram 'camp' near site of massacre

Oct 03, 2013 (AFP)

Nigeria's military has launched air strikes on a Boko Haram camp, killing several Islamists, near a northeastern college campus where insurgents massacred 40 st...

Canada reinforces African Union forces in Somalia

Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)

Canada announced Tuesday funding to bolster African Union forces in Somalia, after a deadly mall attack in Nairobi by Shebab Islamists last month. Canadian Fore...

Disgruntled Malian troops fire weapons, kidnap officer

Sep 30, 2013 (AFP)

Dozens of disgruntled soldiers involved in Mali's 2012 coup fired guns in the air at a protest on Monday, wounding and taking hostage a close aide of mutiny lea...

Ugandan officers court-martialed over alleged coup plot

Sep 28, 2013 (AFP)

Four Ugandan army officers have appeared in a military tribunal on charges of plotting a coup against President Yoweri Museveni, their lawyer and the military s...

Mali rebels suspend talks with government: statement

Sep 27, 2013 (AFP)

Tuareg and Arab rebels, who control northern Mali, announced Thursday the suspension of negotiations with the Bamako government, dealing a blow to hopes of a du...

Nigeria army says verifying credibility of new Boko Haram video

Sep 26, 2013 (AFP)

Nigeria's army said Thursday it was trying to verify the authenticity of a video that appeared to show Boko Haram's leader mocking reports that he may have been...

Akgeria: Bouteflika seeks to outflank rival generals

Sep 24, 2013 (UPI)

Algeria's ailing head of state, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, had been widely expected to stand aside in presidential elections slated for April 2014 after ruling the o...