Nairobi (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 Using a crutch to bear her weight, 85-year-old Molly Aluoch trudges from her mud-walled room on the outskirts of a sprawling Nairobi slum, shouldering a sack of used plastic to exchange for a shower or a safe toilet. For the 31 years she has lived in Kibera, Kenya's largest informal settlement, water and sanitation have remained scarce and costly - often controlled by cartels who charge| Africa News
Cairo (AFP) Sept 1, 2025 In the scorched courtyard of Sudan's National Museum in Khartoum, a towering black granite statue of Kush Pharaoh Taharqa now stands alone, surrounded by shards of broken glass and shattered stone. Since the museum was looted in the early days of Sudan's war between the army and paramilitaries in April 2023, thousands of priceless antiquities, many dating back to the 3,000-year-old Kingdom o| Africa News
Narok, Kenya (AFP) Aug 29, 2025 Fred Ngusilo stooped to pick up a leather pouch, once used to collect honey, and a discarded shoe from the Mau Forest floor, painful reminders that his hunter-gatherer community once flourished in southern Kenya, before they were evicted and their homes destroyed. Ngusilo belongs to the Ogiek group, which is among the last hunter-gatherer communities in Africa and one of the most marginalise| Africa News
Bamako (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda have taken over the strategic town of Farabougou in central Mali, a week after seizing the town's military camp, local sources told AFP Thursday. With the Sahel country struggling in the face of renewed jihadist violence, the capture of Farabougou is a symbolic development. One of the first measures taken by the military junta which seized power in 2020 had b| Africa News
Kigali (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Rwanda and Mozambique have signed a "peace and security" agreement during a visit by the southern African leader to Kigali on Wednesday, as their forces battle a long-running insurgency in Mozambique's north. Contacted by AFP, the Rwandan Defence Forces (RDF) spokesperson Ronald Rwivanga said there were "no details yet" about the deal. However, it comes as jihadist insurgent attacks| Africa News
Bamako (AFP) Aug 23, 2025 Many civilians have fled the town of Farabougou in central Mali following a jihadist attack this week on a military camp, local and military sources told AFP on Saturday. Soldiers also evacuated the town's military installation, which was attacked by jihadists on Tuesday, the sources said. For more than a decade, Mali has faced violence from fighters linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islami| Africa News
Abidjan (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 Niger's army has claimed to have killed Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Mahamadu, alias "Bakura", without providing evidence, prompting caution from experts and a denial from the jihadist group. After its founding in neighbouring Nigeria in the early 2000s, Boko Haram achieved worldwide notoriety by kidnapping more than 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, in the country's northeast. Much remains mu| Africa News
Kinshasa (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 The United States wants to secure its supply of strategic minerals in conflict-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, hoping to challenge China's near-monopoly on the lucrative sector. While the strategy has been in the works for years, Washington has doubled down on it since Donald Trump's return to the White House in January. - Risky El Dorado - Although it is among the world's 15| Africa News
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
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 Esri has partnered with Microsoft and Space42 to launch the Map Africa Initiative, a five-year project aimed at building the most detailed and scalable geospatial basemap of Africa to date. The effort, formalized at the 2025 Esri User Conference, will span all 54 African nations and provide high-resolution mapping data intended to support over 1.4 billion people. Many African nations lack| Africa News
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
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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
Lagos (AFP) May 30, 2025 - The Nigerian military has detained more than 30 soldiers and police officers for allegedly stealing weapons from its stockpiles and selling them to armed groups including jihadists in the country.| 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