Defence minister says ‘very large’ number of people held over June11 raid that killed at least 10 troops. Ivory Coast says it has arrested the leader of an armed group that last week carried out a deadly attack on a military post near the border with Burkina Faso. “The commander of the team who led […]
Attacks targeted towns of Wanlaweyn and Bacadweyn on Saturday and Sunday. At least seven people have died in two separate bomb attacks in Somalia in the last 24 hours, police and military officers said on Sunday. In the first incident, two bombs planted in front of the home of a military official in the town […]
DAKAR/PARIS (REUTERS0 – France launched a coalition of West African and European allies on Friday (June 12) to fight Islamist militants in the Sahel region, hoping more political cooperation and special forces troops would boost a military effort that has so far failed to stifle violence. Paris was due to host virtual meetings of 45 […]
Government says it will relax dusk-to-dawn curfew and lift a ban on inter-regional travel after two nights of unrest. The Senegalese government has said it will it slightly ease a curfew and lift a ban on inter-regional travel after two nights of unrest against the curbs imposed in March to contain the spread of the […]
Appeals court in Paris rules Kabuga should be handed over to a UN tribunal in Tanzania to stand trial. A French court has ordered Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga to be handed over to a United Nations tribunal for trial. UN prosecutors accuse Kabuga of bankrolling and arming ethnic Hutu militias that killed 800,000 Tutsis […]
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli police in annexed east Jerusalem on Saturday (May 30) shot dead a disabled Palestinian they mistakenly thought was armed with a pistol, prompting furious condemnation from the Palestinians. The incident happened in the alleys of the walled Old City near Lions’ Gate, an access point mainly used by Palestinians. “Police units […]
WWII veteran Joseph Hammond logs 14 miles in a week as part of a fundraiser to support Africa’s front-line workers. A 95-year-old Ghanaian World War II veteran walked 23 kilometres (14 miles) in one week to raise funds for healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic in Africa. Joseph Hammond logged 3.2 kilometres (two miles) each […]
Rebel fighters attack the village of Samboko in Ituri province, killing dozens using machetes, rights group says. At least 40 people were killed in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the latest grisly attack on civilians in the mountainous jungles near the Ugandan border. Fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) group, […]
Number of COVID-19 cases jumps by 245, the day Nigeria began phasing out emergency measures. Nigeria has recorded its highest single-day infection rate of COVID-19, the day Africa’s biggest economy began a six-week phase-out period of the emergency lockdown measures. A total of 245 new cases were confirmed on Monday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease […]
‘We don’t know when this nightmare will end,’ says son of veteran opposition leader kidnapped in late March. The family of a leading Malian opposition figure who was kidnapped days before the country’s parliamentary elections in late March says the government is “moving too slow” in securing his release. Soumaila Cisse, the runner-up in a […]