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  Paris (AFP) Dec 4, 2024 French nuclear group Orano said Wednesday that authorities in Niger had taken "operational control" of its uranium mining unit, in an escalating spat between the company and the country's military junta. The junta, which took power in a coup in July last year, has vowed to revamp rules regulating the mining of raw materials by foreign companies in what is the world's seventh-largest uranium producer. In June, authorities withdrew Orano's permit to exploit one of the largest uranium deposits in t ... read more |
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Syria crisis deepens: High-level talks, Iran backs in Assad, as US-Israeli military strikeIstanbul (AFP) Dec 3, 2024 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone Tuesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani about renewed conflict in their joint neighbour Syria, with Erdogan stressing the need to prevent unrest on Turkey's border, his office said. ... more  
At NATO meeting, Blinken promotes military aid, energy assistance for UkraineWashington DC (UPI) Dec 3, 2024 Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the focus of NATO's Allied Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting being held Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels. ... more 
New militias sow future danger for war-weary SudanCairo (AFP) Dec 4, 2024 Mohamed Idris, 27, has despaired of ever finding a job in war-torn Sudan. Instead, he's now set his sights on a training camp on the Eritrean border, hoping to join a militia. ... more  
Chad end to French military cooperation deal leaves questionsN'Djamena (AFP) Nov 29, 2024 Chad's decision to end military cooperation with former colonial power France is the latest downgrade of waning French influence in the Sahel region. ... more |
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Wildlife commission lowers European wolf protectionsStrasbourg, France (AFP) Dec 3, 2024 Dozens of countries on Tuesday approved downgrading the protection status of the wolf in Europe, a move activists say will upset the recovery made by the species over the past 10 years after near extinction a century ago. ... more |
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Survey shows decline in Uganda's lions but hyenas thriveSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 04, 2024 A comprehensive survey led by Griffith University, Southern University of Science and Technology (China), and Northern Arizona University has revealed alarming declines in lion populations across Ug ... more  
A fossil discovery sheds light on coexistence of early human ancestorsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2024 Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil find near Kenya's Lake Turkana, revealing footprints of two distinct human ancestor species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, dating back 1.5 milli ... more 
With Angola trip, Biden fulfills his promise to visit sub-Saharan AfricaWashington (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 Outgoing US President Joe Biden is headed to the southern African country of Angola this week, fulfilling a key promise in a bid to shore up ties with the continent. ... more 
Senegal marks 80th anniversary of troop killings after France acknowleges colonial 'massacre'Thiaroye, Senegal (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former colonial master acknowledged this week had been a "massacre". ... more |
Angola hosts summit as Mali faces separatist conflict and Guinea Junta cracks downLuanda (AFP) Dec 2, 2024 Ceasefire-broker Angola will host a summit on December 15 to advance peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda about the DRC's troubled east, the presidency said on Monday. ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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Malian army kills members of new separatist allianceBamako (AFP) Dec 2, 2024 The Malian army has killed a leader and several members of a newly formed separatist rebel coalition operating in the volatile north of the country, according to information from both sides. ... more 
Human Rights Watch says Guinea junta repressing opponentsDakar (AFP) Dec 2, 2024 Human Rights Watch said Guinea's military rulers are torturing and repressing opponents and failing in their promise to transition to civilian rule this year, in a report published Monday. ... more 
Trafficked endemic lemurs, tortoises returned to MadagascarAntananarivo (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 Several dozen lemurs and more than 900 tortoises endemic to Madagascar that were trafficked to Thailand will be returned home this week, the Indian Ocean island-nation's environment ministry said on Sunday. ... more 
Chad not seeking to 'replace' France after breaking military ties: presidentN'Djamena (AFP) Dec 2, 2024 Chad's president has said his country does not plan to shift allegiance to another foreign ally after breaking off military cooperation with France, at a time when other states in the region are strengthening ties with Russia. ... more |
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'Slap in the face': Chad stuns France with goodbye Paris (AFP) Nov 29, 2024 Chad's announcement that it is ending military cooperation with France wrongfooted the African country's former colonial masters, adding to a series of French setbacks in the Sahel, experts said Friday. ... more  
Death toll from Uganda landslides rises to 20: Red CrossKampala (AFP) Nov 29, 2024 The death toll from landslides which hit several villages in eastern Uganda rose to 20, with more than 100 still unaccounted for, the Red Cross said Friday. ... more 
France urges ceasefire in Sudan war, pledges aid to ChadAdre, Chad (AFP) Nov 28, 2024 France's foreign minister on Thursday called on foreign nations to stop helping the warring sides in famine-stricken Sudan's civil war as he visited refugee camps in neighbouring Chad. ... more 
Mali says arrested 6 'terrorists' over jihadist attacksBamako (AFP) Nov 28, 2024 Mali's ruling junta on Thursday said it had arrested six "terrorists" over their alledged involvement in a jihadist massacre on the capital Bamako in September. ... more |
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Senegal president says France should close military bases Dakar (AFP) Nov 28, 2024 Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP Thursday that France should close its military bases in the West African state as it prepared to mark the 80th anniversary of a notorious colonial slaughter. ... more  
Tanzania's ruling party wins landslide victory in local voteDar Es Salaam (AFP) Nov 28, 2024 Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, which has dominated the east African nation's politics for decades, won more than 98 percent of seats in this week's local elections, official results showed Thursday. ... more  
Trade gap focus in first visit to Spain by Iraq PMMadrid (AFP) Nov 28, 2024 Spain and Iraq on Thursday strengthened economic ties as Mohammed Shia al-Sudani became the first Iraqi prime minister to visit the European country. ... more  
HESS Observatory identifies highest-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons yet observedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 Scientists from CNRS, a German university consortium, and the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik working at the H.E.S.S. Observatory in Namibia have detected cosmic-ray electrons and positrons with ... more |
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Discovery Alert: a 'Hot Neptune' in a Tight OrbitPasadena CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these ... more |
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Thailand to return nearly 1,000 trafficked lemurs, tortoises to MadagascarBangkok (AFP) Nov 27, 2024 Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered lemurs and tortoises back to their home in Madagascar, in what both countries called their biggest ever operation against wildlife trafficking. ... more
Senegal signs off on ruling party's parliament landslideDakar (AFP) Nov 27, 2024 Senegal's Constitutional Council confirmed Wednesday the governing party's win in parliamentary elections, giving it the majority needed to implement its pan-Africanist programme. ... more 
Five forgotten conflicts of 2024Paris (AFP) Nov 27, 2024 The wars in the Mideast and Ukraine-Russia have dominated world headlines in 2024 but several other conflicts are ravaging countries and regions. ... more 
Gabon forest elephant forays into villages spark ireLastourville, Gabon (AFP) Nov 27, 2024 In heavily forested Gabon, elephants are increasingly wandering into villages and destroying crops, angering the local population who demand the power to stop the critically endangered animals in their tracks. ... more |
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