Agence France Presse
Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 06:24
EUTM Mali is based in the south of Mali which is considered relatively safe compared to the troubled north, which is where the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) is based.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 06:19
West Africa's armed forces, police and governments need to ramp up cross-border links to contain Islamist groups now increasingly staging spectacular attacks on civilian targets, US and local top brass said this week.
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 06:26
Germany is considering sending troops to Tunisia to help train soldiers in the fight against the Islamic State group, a newspaper report said on Sunday.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:43
U.N. officials are demanding the Chadian government explain why a Central African rebel leader was able to travel freely to Chad in defiance of Security Council sanctions against him. Nourredine Adam, the second-in-command of the ex-Seleka band of mostly Muslim rebels, was able to fly to Chad despite an assets freeze and a travel ban imposed by the UN in May 2014, the world body's sanctions committee said in a report obtained Friday by AFP.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:39
After falling to al-Shabab militants on Friday, the port city of Marka was recaptured by Somali government troops and African Union (AU) peacekeepers on Saturday, according to Somali officials.
"The Somali forces and AMISOM peacekeepers secured control of Marka again and now the situation has returned to normal," Abdirisak Mohamed, a Somali military official, told the AFP news agency by telephone.
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 06:39
Scores of people, including children, have been killed in a Nigerian town by Boko Haram fighters who shot at villagers and set fire to their homes in the latest deadly attack by the Islamist militant group. The attack took place on Saturday in the village of Dalori, which lies about 12km (seven miles) from the northern city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in Nigeria’s north-east.
Monday, December 21, 2015 - 08:19
Costa Rica on Friday partially pulled out of SICA, a regional body promoting Central American cooperation, after neighboring nations refused to help handle a growing Cuban migrant crisis.
Monday, December 21, 2015 - 07:52
The US Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned four Burundi nationals for allegedly "fueling violence" in the strife-torn African country. Burundi descended into bloodshed in April, when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his intention to run for a controversial third term, which he went on to win in July. More than 300 people have died in the violence and 20,000 have fled their homes across borders to neighboring countries.
Monday, December 21, 2015 - 07:50
Burundi's government said Sunday it would not agree to the deployment of African Union (AU) peacekeepers, warning that they would be seen as "an invasion force". The announcement came a day after the 54-member bloc said it would send a 5,000-strong force to halt spiralling violence in the tiny central African country as fears grow that it is rapidly sliding towards civil war.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 06:36
The Iraqi government on Tuesday demanded the "complete withdrawal" of Turkish forces from its territory, indicating Ankara's partial pullout the previous day was not enough.