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December 22, 2024
Digital Earth Africa launches coastal monitoring tool for informed decision making

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 20, 2024
Africa's coastlines are undergoing significant transformations due to rising sea levels, climate-induced extreme weather, urbanization, and growing coastal populations. These changes pose major challenges to infrastructure, agriculture, and public health, demanding robust monitoring and adaptive strategies to ensure sustainable development. Digital Earth Africa has unveiled a Coastlines Monitoring Service dashboard that leverages satellite Earth observation data to track coastal erosion and growth ... read more
UAE says will not arm Sudan paramilitary RSF: White House
Washington (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
The United Arab Emirates has informed the United States that it will not arm paramilitaries in Sudan's brutal civil war, US lawmakers long critical of the Gulf power's role quoted the White House as saying on Thursday. ... more
Official says Liberia to begin war crimes trials in next five years
Monrovia (AFP) Dec 21, 2024
The lawyer responsible for setting up Liberia's long-awaited war crimes court told AFP that the first trials will take place in the next five years, more than two decades after the brutal civil wars that left around 250,000 people dead. ... more
France withdraws first contingent of soldiers from Chad: N'Djamena
N'Djamena (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, the country's defence ministry said, after N'Djamena last month abruptly ended military cooperation with the former colonial power. ... more
DR Congo president makes changes at top of armed forces
Kinshasa (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
President Felix Tshisekedi has replaced the army chief as part of a reshuffle within the armed forces who are battling a rebel advance in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... more
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Mali junta renames colonial French street names
Bamako (AFP) Dec 18, 2024
Mali followed fellow junta-ruled Burkina Faso and Niger on Wednesday in renaming streets and squares in its capital to get rid of their French colonial names. ... more
Macron sees new role for French military base in Djibouti
Djibouti (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday its military base in Djibouti could assume a greater role, speaking after Paris was forced to pull troops out of several other African countries. ... more
Mali army says captured Islamic State group figure
Dakar (AFP) Dec 16, 2024
Mali's army on Monday claimed it had captured a "top leader" in the Sahel branch of the Islamic State group and killed several fighters in an operation a day earlier in the east of the country. ... more
BBC vows to keep up reporting after Niger suspends radio
London (AFP) Dec 13, 2024
The BBC said on Friday it would continue to report on the Sahel region after the military junta in Niger suspended BBC radio for three months. ... more
Niger junta suspends BBC for three months
Abidjan (AFP) Dec 12, 2024
Niger on Thursday announced it was suspending BBC radio for three months, with the British broadcaster joining the growing list of Western media sanctioned by military juntas in the Sahel. ... more
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HRW condemns 'atrocities' against Mali civilians since UN withdrawal
Dakar (AFP) Dec 12, 2024
Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned "atrocities" committed against civilians by Mali's army, the Russian mercenary group Wagner, and Islamist armed groups since UN peacekeepers withdrew a year ago. ... more
Amnesty accuses DR Congo army of 'possible crimes against humanity'
Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Dec 11, 2024
Amnesty International in a statement Wednesday accused senior Congolese army officers of "possible crimes against humanity" in a massacre in the northeastern city of Goma that killed 56 people last year. ... more
10 Niger soldiers killed in 'terrorist attack' near Burkina Faso: army
Niamey, Niger (AFP) Dec 11, 2024
Ten soldiers were killed and another seven wounded in a "terrorist attack" in western Niger near the border with Burkina Faso, the army said in its operational bulletin on Wednesday. ... more
Air strike on market kills over 100 as fighting rages across Sudan
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Dec 10, 2024
A Sudanese military air strike on a market in North Darfur killed more than 100 people, a pro-democracy lawyers' group said Tuesday, as fighting raged across the war-torn country. ... more
French fighter jets leave Chad: French sources
Paris (AFP) Dec 10, 2024
French fighter aircraft left Chad for good on Tuesday after N'Djamena decided last month to end military cooperation with the former colonial power, the French military said. ... more
Air strike on Khartoum mosque kills 7: Sudan lawyers' group

Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Dec 6, 2024
A Sudanese military air strike on a north Khartoum mosque killed seven civilians on Friday, pro-democracy lawyers said, in the 19th month of a war marked by widespread abuses. Friday's attack occurred on a mosque in Khartoum North, also known as Bahri, which has been under near-total control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since the war between the paramilitaries and the army began in April 2023. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war which has left the northeast ... read more
Hundreds in Chad call for French forces to leave
N'Djamena (AFP) Dec 6, 2024
Hundreds of people staged a rally in N'Djamena on Friday to support a Chad government call last week to scrap military cooperation with former colonial power France. ... more

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'Can't leave them to it': ex-child soldier urges help for Sudan kids
Nairobi (AFP) Dec 5, 2024
A former child soldier has urged the world to do more to help children devastated by Sudan's brutal civil war, telling AFP on Thursday that "we can't just leave them to it". ... more
Biden hails 'game changer' Africa investment on Angola visit
Lobito, Angola (AFP) Dec 4, 2024
Joe Biden on Wednesday lauded a landmark railway infrastructure project aimed at countering China's investments in Africa as a "game changer" while on a historic first visit to Angola by a US president. ... more
In Angola, Biden promises to invest differently to China
Lobito, Angola (AFP) Dec 4, 2024
President Joe Biden will make the case on Wednesday in Angola that the United States must do better rather than more than China to regain influence in Africa. ... more
E.Guinea lauds 'exceptional' ties with Russia
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) Dec 3, 2024
Equatorial Guinea's presidency on Tuesday lauded relations between the small central African state and Russia, saying they "have reached an unprecedented level of cooperation", notably on security. ... more
Gunmen kill 3 Benin soldiers near Niger border
Cotonou (AFP) Dec 3, 2024
Gunmen have killed three soldiers who were guarding an oil pipeline in Benin, a military source said Tuesday, in the latest attack in the West African country where jihadist violence is rising. ... more
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