The M23 armed group said Tuesday it would withdraw from the key city of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the request of Washington, which vowed “action” over the “clear violation” of a US-brokered peace accord.The Rwanda-backed militia seized the strategic city near the border with Burundi last Wednesday, days after the …
Thousands of Afrikaners, descendants of the first European settlers in South Africa, celebrated on Tuesday the “Day of the Vow” — a founding myth with values shared by US President Donald Trump’s administration, which has offered the group protection.On a hill overlooking the capital Pretoria, an announcer boasted that some 37,000 Afrikaners had gathered at …
Military rulers in west Africa’s Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another anti-Western junta in their neighbourhood, analysts said.Not least because Benin lies on the coast and access to ports is crucial for landlocked Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger — whose rulers formed the Alliance of …
Sahel juntas would have welcomed a coup in Benin: analystsTue, 16 Dec 2025 13:41:05 GMT Read More »
Benin jailed on Tuesday around 30 people, most of them soldiers, accused of links to a thwarted coup attempt this month, legal sources told AFP, while several mutineers are still on the run.Soldiers appeared on national television on December 7 to announce President Patrice Talon had been deposed but the attempted putsch was swiftly defeated by …
A suicide bomber struck a military position in northeastern Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, killing at least five soldiers, security and local defence sources said.The attacker targeted a military position in Firgi near the town of Pulka in Borno state on Sunday, sources told AFP on Monday night and Tuesday morning.Militants have intensified raids …
A former adviser to Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh said Tuesday he will run against him in April elections, denouncing “democratic backsliding” in the small but highly strategic Horn of Africa nation.Djibouti has been ruled with an iron fist since 1999 by 77-year-old Guelleh, known as “IOG”, with the removal of a constitutional age limit …
Former adviser to stand against Djibouti’s strongman leaderTue, 16 Dec 2025 08:15:52 GMT Read More »
Maasai women erupted with mocking heckles as a community elder, wrapped in a traditional red blanket, claimed that female genital mutilation had all but stopped in their community in southern Kenya.The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia — framed as a rite of passage — is still an …
A flash flood in a Moroccan coastal town has killed at least 37 people, local officials said on Monday, as search and rescue operations continued.Drought-hit Morocco often faces severe weather, but Sunday’s flooding in Safi is already the deadliest such disaster in at least a decade.A muddy torrent swept cars and bins from the streets …
Flash flood kills dozens in Morocco townMon, 15 Dec 2025 18:48:48 GMT Read More »
A French court Monday handed ex-rebel leader Roger Lumbala a 30-year jail term over complicity in crimes against humanity during the Second Congo War in what activists hailed a “historic” verdict.Lumbala, a 67-year-old accused of being one of the masterminds of atrocities including rape and torture in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2002 to …
In Kadugli, a besieged city in Sudan’s Kordofan region, escalating violence and worsening famine have left civilians trapped in a state of constant fear, according to testimonies gathered by AFP.Two and a half years of war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have ravaged the South Kordofan state capital, with strikes intensifying …
Trapped, starving and afraid in besieged Sudan cityMon, 15 Dec 2025 13:07:44 GMT Read More »
