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One-third of Lesotho faces food crisis: UN food agency
Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)
More than 725,000 people face a food crisis in the tiny southern African nation of Lesotho after successive disastrous harvests cut production by 70 percent, th...
Nigerian environmental activist receives human rights prize
Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)
The Rafto Prize, a Norwegian human rights award, was awarded to Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey on Thursday for his campaigning on behalf of victims of ...
France to facilitate Mali anti-rebel force
Sep 27, 2012 (UPI)
France says it is facilitating a request by Mali for a U.N. force to help defeat terror-linked Islamist rebels in the northern part of the country. French Forei...
U.S. expands its secret war in Africa
Sep 24, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. President Barack Obama's "secret wars" against al-Qaida are steadily widening, most notably in Africa, with the U.S. military's Special Forces Operation Co...
24-hour curfew imposed in restive Nigeria state
Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)
Officials have slapped a round-the-clock curfew on a restive Nigerian state as security forces hunt for members of a radical Islamist group, the military said S...
Endless Congo war flares anew amid mutiny
Sep 20, 2012 (UPI)
Thousands of people are fleeing fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich eastern region as ragtag government forces struggle to crush a 5-mon...
Food supplements have little effect on the weight of malnourished children
Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)
Providing energy dense food supplements within a general household food distribution has little effect on the weight of children at risk of malnutrition Giving ...
Moroccan ex-POWs from W. Sahara conflict hold sit-in
Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)
Some 200 Moroccan former prisoners of war from the conflict in the Western Sahara have begun a sit in outside parliament in Rabat, claiming compensation for the...
Toll rises to 40 in S. Sudan military boat sinking: army
Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)
South Sudan's military on Monday raised to as many as 40 the death toll from a "friendly fire" incident last week in which it sank one of its own river boats at...
No peace of mind for war-weary South Sudanese
Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)
Staring blankly about his hospital ward, former South Sudanese soldier Ajing Deng has not been the same since getting caught in an enemy bombing raid earlier th...
ECOWAS defence ministers meet on Mali, G.Bissau: official
Sep 16, 2012 (AFP)
West African defence and foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting Monday in the Ivorian capital Abidjan on the political and security crises in Mali and...
Zimbabwe's Mugabe inaugurates Chinese-built defence college
Sep 14, 2012 (AFP)
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday inaugurated a $98 million Chinese-built military college and claimed the West threatened a "military invasion" during...
Malema mocks S.African 'high alert' for military bases
Sep 12, 2012 (AFP)
South Africa's firebrand politician Julius Malema on Wednesday mocked reports that the country's military bases had been put on high alert ahead of his address ...
Zimbabwe wildlife ranchers warn on Mugabe party takeovers
Sep 11, 2012 (AFP)
A group of wildlife ranchers in southeastern Zimbabwe warned Tuesday that land and hunting permit takeovers by politicians from President Robert Mugabe's party ...
Mali coup leader 'in sync' with govt on reclaiming north
Sep 11, 2012 (AFP)
The leader of the March 22 coup in Mali said he is "in sync" with the country's transitional government and supports interim president Dioncounda Traore's effor...
Nigeria trains more peacekeeping troops
Sep 06, 2012 (UPI)
Nigeria is expanding its program of training troops for peacekeeping operations. Nigeria's Minister of State for Defense Erelu Olusola Obada made the observatio...
Rebel chief returns to Chad after surrender
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
Chad's FPR rebel chief Abdel Kader Baba Ladde, who was wanted by his country's army, landed in the capital Ndjamena Wednesday, days after turning himself in to ...
Kenya readies Somali Kismayo attack
Sep 05, 2012 (UPI)
Kenyan military officials in Somalia are planning to attack the port city of Kismayo, which is a stronghold of the militant group al-Shabaab. In October 2011, K...
Weapons destined for Mali held up in Guinea since July
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
Weapons destined for Mali which were bought by the country's ousted regime have been held in Guinea since July due to a request from a regional bloc, the state ...
Liberia gets Norwegian security training
Aug 31, 2012 (UPI)
Liberia has selected a Norwegian company to increase security on its worldwide commercial fleet. Liberia operates the world's second-largest maritime "flag of c...
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