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Jan 04, 2013 (AFP)

Poachers killed four white rhinos in a raid on a privately-run game reserve in northeastern Zimbabwe on New Year's day, the parks department said Friday. Zimbab...

Angola detains nine exiled DR Congo officers over 'plot'

Jan 03, 2013 (AFP)

Nine former military officers from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been arrested in Angola, suspected of hatching a plot to destabilise their homeland, th...

Seven killed as Nigerian soldiers clash with Islamists

Jan 03, 2013 (AFP)

Nigerian soldiers have killed five gunmen believed to belong to the Islamist group Boko Haram while losing a soldier and a policeman during a gunbattle in the c...

Ghana bans import of second-hand fridges

Dec 31, 2012 (UPI)

Ghana officials say they've banned the importation of second-hand refrigerators to reduce energy consumption and protect the environment. Many older fridges imp...

Canada mulls joining Mali training effort

Dec 31, 2012 (AFP)

Canada is considering sending troops to Mali to help train the west African nation's army as it seeks to take back the Islamist-controlled north, Defense Minist...

Entrepreneur launches first Africa-designed smartphone

Dec 29, 2012 (AFP)

A Congolese inventor has unveiled what he says is the first African-designed smartphone. Verone Mankou, 27, told AFP that the so-called Elikia, which means "hop...

China firm to acquire major African iron ore mine: Xinhua

Dec 29, 2012 (AFP)

China's Hanlong Group intends to take over Australian mining company Sundance early next year and gain control over a key supply of iron ore in Africa, state me...

C.Africa army routed trying to recapture rebel-held city

Dec 29, 2012 (AFP)

Rebels in the Central African Republic have repelled army soldiers who were trying to recapture the central city of Bambari, officials on both sides said Saturd...

Nigerian troops kill five Islamists in restive north

Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)

Nigerian troops killed five suspected Islamists and recovered arms and explosives in a raid in the restive northern city of Kaduna, the military said Friday. Ar...

Namibia rhino deaths raise fears of widening poaching crisis

Dec 27, 2012 (AFP)

The rare killing of a black rhino for its horns in Namibia has prompted fears that a poaching epidemic in neighbouring South Africa could spill across the borde...

Mali PM calls for swift African military action

Dec 27, 2012 (AFP)

Mali's new Prime Minister Diango Cissoko called Thursday for military intervention by an African force to help take back the Islamist-controlled north "as quick...

Chad lifts expulsion order against critical Italian bishop

Dec 24, 2012 (AFP)

Chad on Monday said it had lifted an expulsion order against an Italian Catholic bishop who had been ordered to leave after criticising the mismanagement of oil...

Mali Islamists destroying more Timbuktu mausoleums

Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)

Armed groups occupying Timbuktu in northern Mali used pickaxes on Sunday to smash up any remaining mausoleums in the ancient city, an Islamist leader said. The ...

Outside View: Tunisia's path ahead

Dec 21, 2012 (UPI)

Two years after the revolutions, Arab Spring nations continue to face turbulent transitions as they try to forge ahead through new challenges and old legacies. ...

Peacekeepers warn of potential catastrophe in Darfur

Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)

Peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region warned on Friday of a potential humanitarian catastrophe after reports of renewed displacement of civilians by alleged air...

Gunmen attack military targets in I. Coast: army, UN

Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)

Armed men attacked a gendarmerie barracks in the main Ivory Coast city of Abidjan overnight, while a separate armed group attacked an army post to the north, mi...

Kenyans brace for another violent election

Dec 18, 2012 (UPI)

Kenya has been hit by bombings and shootings blamed on Somali extremists that have sharpened political tensions as the country braces for ethnic violence in upc...

French push Algeria to join Mali incursion

Dec 17, 2012 (UPI)

French President Francois Hollande flies to Algeria, North Africa's military heavyweight, this week seeking to persuade its leaders to back armed intervention i...

Ceramic cookstoves did not lower child pneumonia risk in rural Kenya

Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)

Inexpensive, locally-produced ceramic cookstoves may produce less smoke than traditional indoor 3-stone firepits, but they don't significantly reduce indoor air...

Troops patrol Nigeria city after death of governor

Dec 16, 2012 (AFP)

Nigerian troops were out on the streets of the volatile northern city of Kaduna on Sunday to prevent any outbreak of violence following the death of the state g...