Narok, Kenya (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - Fred Ngusilo stoops to pick up a leather pouch, once used to collect honey, and a discarded shoe from the Mau forest floor, painful reminders that his Ogiek hunter-gatherer community once quietl| Africa Daily
Bamako (AFP) Aug 11, 2025 - Mali's junta has carried out arrests to quash an alleged plot to overthrow the government within the army's ranks, sources told AFP, but the circumstances of the detentions remain unexplained.| Africa Daily
Dubai (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 - The United Arab Emirates rejected on Thursday an announcement from Sudan's armed forces saying they had destroyed an Emirati plane ferrying Colombian mercenaries into the country to back paramilitary rivals.| Africa Daily
Doha (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 - Talks on measures to build confidence between M23 rebels and the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of formal peace talks are taking longer than expected, an official with knowledge of the issue said Thursday.| Africa Daily
Dakar (AFP) Aug 2, 2025 - Senegal said Saturday that it is positioning new gendarmerie units in the east of the country as it faces growing security threats along its border with Mali.| Africa Daily
Abidjan (AFP) Aug 1, 2025 - Two jihadist attacks in northeastern Burkina Faso early this week killed several dozens of soldiers and civilians, two security sources and a local source told AFP on Friday.| Africa Daily
Paris (AFP) July 28, 2025 - The US administration's decision to destroy nearly $10 million worth of women's contraception products has sparked furious condemnation from doctors and aid groups, who have slammed the move as a wasteful attack on women's rights.| Africa Daily
Cairo (AFP) July 29, 2025 - A ministerial meeting on the Sudan war between the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt was postponed on Tuesday after a disagreement over the final joint statement, two diplomatic sources told AFP.| Africa Daily
Tunis (AFP) July 28, 2025 - A towel draped over his head, Hamza Jabbari sets bags of plastic bottles onto a scale. He is among Tunisia's barbechas, informal plastic recyclers whose increasing numbers reflect the country's economic - and migratory - woes.| Africa Daily
Abidjan (AFP) July 24, 2025 - President Mohamed Bazoum has been languishing for two years along with his wife in Niger's presidential palace since his ouster by a junta, which is using them as human shields to avert foreign military intervention to free them, according to the couple's lawyers.| Africa Daily
Tripoli (AFP) July 10, 2025 - The UN mission in Libya called for immediate deescalation, citing reports of armed forces being mobilised in the capital and its surroundings that have raised fears of renewed violence.| Africa Daily
Dakar (AFP) July 22, 2025 - The Malian army and Russia's Wagner group killed dozens of ethnic Fulani men this year during anti-jihadist operations in the troubled west African nation, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.| Africa Daily
Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2025 - China and Kenya agreed on Thursday to boost ties to a new level and oppose trade barriers, following talks between President Xi Jinping and his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto in Beijing.| Africa Daily
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Jan 24, 2025 - The Sudanese army said Friday it broke a siege of its headquarters in Khartoum by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which had encircled it since war broke out in April 2023.| Africa Daily