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Mauritius has not received US proposal on Chagos Islands
Mauritius said on Monday that it had not received any proposal from the Trump administration on the Chagos Islands, after...
Read moreDetailsFrench national gets 20 years in Mali over alleged destabilisation plot
A French national accused by Mali's military-led government of involvement in a plot to destabilise the country last year has...
Read moreDetailsNigeria’s military rescues 360 hostages in Borno state
Nigeria's security forces have freed 360 men, women and children from a mountain hideout where they were being held by...
Read moreDetailsSomali military and opposition-allied militias trade fire ahead of anti-government protests
Government troops and militias allied with the opposition exchanged fire overnight and on Thursday morning in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, damaging...
Read moreDetailsUS imposes sanctions on commanders over fighting in eastern Congo
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on commanders of armed groups it accused of driving the conflict in eastern...
Read moreDetailsNigeria busts meth cartel in largest seizure, arrests kingpin
Nigeria's anti-drug agency said it had dismantled a methamphetamine syndicate in the largest seizure of its kind in the country,...
Read moreDetailsISIS second-in-command Abu-Bilal al-Minuki killed by US and Nigerian forces, presidents say
Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, the second in command of ISIS globally, has been killed in an operation conducted by U.S. and Nigerian...
Read moreDetailsRwandan genocide suspect Kabuga, 93, dies in custody
Felicien Kabuga, a suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has died in custody, a U.N. court said on Saturday. He...
Read moreDetailsRights group says M23, Rwandan army committed killings, rapes in Congo’s Uvira
M23 rebels and the Rwandan army carried out killings, rapes and abductions during a month-long occupation of Uvira in eastern...
Read moreDetailsGhana to evacuate 300 citizens from South Africa after xenophobic attacks
Ghana will evacuate 300 citizens from South Africa following a wave of xenophobic attacks targeting migrants from other sub-Saharan African...
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