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Congolese soldiers plead not guilty over Brazzaville blast

Aug 07, 2013 (AFP)

Twenty-three Congolese soldiers and seven civilians pleaded not guilty on Wednesday at the trial over an explosion at a munitions dump in Brazzaville which kill...

Mugabe wins landslide prompts opposition boycott

Aug 03, 2013 (AFP)

Zimbabwe's 89-year-old Robert Mugabe romped to victory in presidential and parliamentary polls on Saturday, but his longtime foe Morgan Tsvangirai vowed to boyc...

UN cuts back I. Coast force

Jul 30, 2013 (AFP)

The UN Security Council on Tuesday cut back the size of the UN peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast as it praised the government's efforts to bring stability there...

Tunisia on brink of internal conflict after assassinations

Jul 29, 2013 (UPI)

Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Spring and widely seen as the country that made the most successful transition from dictatorship to democracy, is now teetering on t...

Nigeria Islamists kill 20 civilians in north: military

Jul 28, 2013 (AFP)

Suspected members of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram shot dead more than 20 civilians when a vigilante group attacked them in the northern Borno state, a mi...

Tunisia seeks helicopters, weaponry

Jul 25, 2013 (UPI)

The North African country of Tunisia is seeking to improve its security capabilities with help from the United States military. The U.S. Defense Security Cooper...

Covert U.S. flights could signal new Somalia action

Jul 24, 2013 (UPI)

The United States is reported to be escalating its largely secret war against al-Qaida in the turbulent Horn of Africa state of Somalia amid signs the al-Shabaa...

Post-mortem on French operation in Mali

Jul 23, 2013 (AFP)

The French-led military operation in Mali succeeded in that it drove back an Islamist offensive headed for the capital Bamako, but it also revealed areas where ...

Climate change to hit Volta Basin for energy, farming

Jul 19, 2013 (AFP)

West Africa's Volta River Basin, home to 24 million people in six countries, will be badly hit by climate change, as dwindling water flows hit hydro-electric su...

Nigeria to withdraw some troops from Mali

Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)

Nigeria plans to withdraw some of its troops from Mali because they are needed back home, where the country is battling a deadly Islamist insurgency, officials ...

A South Sudan moka? What else?

Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)

Coffee maker Nespresso is to buy coffee from the poverty-wracked fledgling state of South Sudan to expand supplies from sustainable sources, brand frontman Geor...

Kigali says two mortar bombs fired into Rwanda from DRC

Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)

Rwanda's military spokesman said two mortar bombs were fired into the country from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday. He said the bombs, which...

DR Congo says 130 dead in clashes between army, rebels

Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)

At least 130 people have been killed, including 10 soldiers, in ongoing clashes between army forces and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the gove...

Guinea jails two for life for attack on president

Jul 13, 2013 (AFP)

A Guinean court Saturday meted life sentences to two ringleaders of a failed assassination attempt on President Alpha Conde that rocked the nation just seven mo...

Madagascar villagers accuse army of mass killings

Jul 13, 2013 (AFP)

Villagers in southern Madagascar recall with bitterness the day the soldiers came and razed their homes to the ground, but the officer they accuse denies any re...

4,500 Chinese leave Ghana after illegal mining crackdown

Jul 12, 2013 (AFP)

More than 4,500 Chinese have left Ghana since a crackdown on illegal mining began in June, with the illicit industry having drawn scores of Chinese to the west ...

South Sudan gunmen battle rivals in war-torn Jonglei

Jul 12, 2013 (AFP)

Columns of heavily armed South Sudanese gunmen in a tribal militia are fighting their way towards a rival community in the eastern Jonglei state, a local offici...

Tanzanian charged for smuggling over 1,000 elephant tusks

Jul 12, 2013 (AFP)

A Tanzanian businessman was charged Friday with smuggling more than a thousand elephant ivory tusks, officials said. "Selemani Isanzu Chasema, in his 50s, is be...

Canada to send 'at least 15' observers to Mali vote

Jul 12, 2013 (AFP)

Canada plans to send "at least 15" observers to monitor the opening round of Mali's presidential elections on July 28, the government said Friday. "Canada is pl...

Governor of flashpoint Mali town leaves after brief visit

Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)

The governor of the flashpoint Malian town of Kidal returned to his city on Thursday after more than a yearlong absence but left after a brief visit, as the cou...