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Mali needs other options if diplomacy fails: Rabat

Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)

Morocco supports a political solution to the crisis in Mali but the regional community will have to consider "other options" if diplomacy fails, the foreign min...

Suicide bomber in Nigeria kills at least 6 soldiers

Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)

A suicide bomber in a car rammed into a military patrol on Sunday in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, killing himself, at least six soldiers and a ci...

France would back African intervention in Mali: minister

Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)

France would back an African military intervention in Islamist-held northern Mali, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday. But even if he believed...

Gunmen kill 2 sailors, kidnap 4 foreigners in Nigeria

Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)

Gunmen attacked a barge belonging to an oil services company off the coast of Nigeria on Saturday, killing two Nigerian sailors and kidnapping four foreigners, ...

Mali wives prevent loyalist soldiers' arrest

Aug 01, 2012 (AFP)

The wives of dozens of Malian armymen Wednesday physically blocked a group of policemen from arresting two soldiers close to the west African nation's former pr...

Panetta to visit North Africa, Middle East

Jul 26, 2012 (AFP)

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta heads to Tunisia and Egypt next week to support their "democratic transitions" and to Israel and Jordan to discuss the Syrian ...

Brother of exiled Rwandan ex-army chief gets 9 years' jail

Jul 26, 2012 (AFP)

A Rwandan military court jailed a brother of an exiled former army chief to nine years in prison for threatening state security, the defence ministry said in a ...

Mozambique told to tackle crime

Jul 25, 2012 (AFP)

A US-based think tank on Wednesday called on Mozambique to tackle rising crime amid a wave of high-profile kidnappings and as the country becomes a major corrid...

Flooding in central Nigeria's Jos kills at least 35

Jul 23, 2012 (AFP)

Heavy rainfall in central Nigeria forced a dam to overflow, causing flooding that left at least 35 people dead and destroyed or damaged some 200 homes, the Red ...

New sapphire find sends panners into Madagascar lemur park

Jul 22, 2012 (AFP)

Knee-deep in muddy water, a 10-year-old child and a woman with braided hair lean over a large sieve, washing earth and rocks, their eyes clenched against the fi...

US suspends aid to Rwanda amid DR Congo violence

Jul 22, 2012 (AFP)

The United States announced Sunday it will suspend military aid to Rwanda on allegations that the southern African nation is backing the rebellion in the neighb...

China doubles loans to Africa to $20 billion

Jul 19, 2012 (AFP)

China said Thursday it would offer $20 billion in new loans to Africa, underscoring the relationship's growing importance, as Chinese companies agreed to operat...

Afro-Japanese fusion music puzzles traditionalists

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

One of Africa's most traditional instruments, the thumb piano, may look a little out of place in the hands of Sakaki Mango, a Japanese musician who has adopted ...

Nigeria increases defense spending

Jul 17, 2012 (UPI)

Nigeria's Ministry of Defense has projected spending $16.4 billion within the next four years. ICD Research/Strategic Defense Intelligence's "The Nigerian Defen...

Sudan rebels claim Darfur helicopter shoot-down

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

Rebels in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region on Tuesday claimed they shot down a military helicopter which the army said crashed because of a malfunction, k...

Hundreds flee Nigerian villages ahead of army raid: official

Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)

Hundreds of villagers have quit their homes in central Nigeria ahead of a planned army raid on suspected militant hideouts, over recent attacks that killed more...

Up to Africans to decide on Mali intervention: Hollande

Jul 14, 2012 (AFP)

French President Francois Hollande said Saturday that it was up to the community in Africa to decide how and when to intervene militarily over the Islamist occu...

Annual Namibia seal cull to start amid protests

Jul 13, 2012 (AFP)

Namibia's annual seal hunt, which will see some 86,000 Cape fur seals slaughtered by end November, starts on Sunday amid outcry from conservation groups that br...

Liberia leader warns of new wars without arms deal

Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Thursday that Africa will face more conflict like her country's devastating civil war unless arms trade treaty ne...

Sahel army chiefs meet on Mali crisis

Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)

Army chiefs from four Sahel nations met in Nouakchott on Wednesday to discuss the worsening security crisis in occupied northern Mali, the Mauritanian press age...