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Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 06:31
Cameroon plans to send an additional 2 000 soldiers to its Far North region after three suicide bomb attacks in regional capital Maroua in the past week by suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group, state radio said on Monday.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 05:40
Burundi's ruling party said on Tuesday it had boycotted the restart of UN-led talks hoped to broker peace between rival parties following weeks of violence and ahead of elections on Monday.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:22
Boko Haram gunmen killed at least 43 people and burnt down three villages in northeast Nigeria, residents told AFP on Thursday, the latest in an upsurge of attacks by the Islamist militants.
Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 06:24
Muhammadu Buhari, who will be sworn in on Friday as Nigeria's new president, is a one-time coup leader who once ruled Africa's most populous nation with an iron fist.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 07:56
France has suspended its security co-operation with the crisis-hit central African nation of Burundi, a French diplomat told AFP on Tuesday.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 06:43
The annual 'Flintlock' counter-terrorism exercises are a decade-old US-sponsored initiative to bolster African nations' ability to fight militant groups operating in the vast ungoverned spaces of the Sahara with training.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 07:08
Uganda's government said on Monday it wants to try the Lord's Resistance Army rebel commander who recently surrendered to US forces for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 06:28
A German-American journalist and writer, Michael Scott Moore, who was abducted in Somalia two and a half years ago, is free, the German foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 06:28
A German-American journalist and writer, Michael Scott Moore, who was abducted in Somalia two and a half years ago, is free, the German foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Monday, September 8, 2014 - 06:54
Kenya's president on Saturday offered his "heartfelt thanks" to the United States for killing the leader of Somalia's al-Shabaab militants, responsible for the massacre at Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall a year ago.