Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Nov 2, 2025 - A young man from one of the towns outlying the western Sudanese city of El-Fasher, Hussein was one of hundreds of men and boys captured and held by paramilitary forces that have overrun the area.| Africa Daily
London, UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 Axelspace Corporation has entered into memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute (GSSTI) of the Republic of Ghana and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Kenya. These partnerships aim to support local initiatives that address social challenges by leveraging satellite-based Earth observation (EO) data. The agr| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 30, 2025 Axelspace Corporation has signed memorandums of understanding with the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute (GSSTI) and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Kenya to jointly address pressing social challenges using Earth observation satellite data. The MoU with GSSTI was formalized during NIHONBASHI SPACE WEEK 2025 in Japan on October 29, witnesse| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 28, 2025 More than two years after the start of Sudan's civil war, the nation's military has ceded nearly all of Darfur to a paramilitary group in an effort to prevent more death and destruction there. Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday took control of El Fasher, a city in Sudan's Darfur region and its army's headquarters, more than a year and a half after it started launching drone and artillery s| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 30, 2025 - The U.S. Department of State on Thursday ordered non-emergency employees and their family members to leave Mali, where the government is in armed conflict with al-Qaida-linked terrorists.| Africa Daily
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 29, 2025 - Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group engaged in a civil war with Sudan's military, has reportedly killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher after seizing the capital of the state of North Darfur on Sunday.| Africa Daily
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Lagos (AFP) Oct 24, 2025 - Nnimmo Bassey, a prominent figure in the decades-long environmental struggles in Africa's largest oil-producing country, will next month attend yet another UN climate summit, this time in Brazil.| Africa Daily
Abuja (AFP) Oct 18, 2025 Nigerian authorities on Saturday denied that more than a dozen officers had been arrested over a coup plot, pushing back on local media reports. The west African country has seen several military takeovers in its history and spent much of the 20th century under junta rule since its independence from Britain. A fresh coup would turn back the clock on more than a quarter century of civilia| Africa News
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 The Future Ecosystems for Africa Programme (FEFA) at Wits University, working with Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation, has launched the African Data Drive (ADD) - an interactive mapping and analytics tool that integrates spatial data to support sustainable development decisions across Africa. As industrial, agricultural, and mining activities expand rapidly, the continent fa| Africa News
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 15, 2025 Three Burkinabe journalists arrested earlier this week were released Wednesday, while intelligence agents still hold two others, their media outlets told AFP. Burkina Faso's military junta, which sprang a September 2022 coup led by Captain Ibrahim Traore, has regularly faced accusations of repressive measures against critics, including forced frontline enlistment to fight jihadist groups.| Africa News
Antananarivo, Madagascar (AFP) Oct 17, 2025 - Madagascar was set Friday to swear in an army colonel as president, just days after a military power grab that sent President Andry Rajoelina fleeing and raised international alarm about a new coup on the island.| Africa Daily
Abidjan (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.| Africa Daily
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 11, 2025 - The African Union has announced plans to form a coalition of mineral-producing nations to manage the global rush for critical minerals after holding a climate summit,| Africa Daily
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
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
