Three soldiers in Burkina Faso have been arrested and charged with plotting against the ruling junta, the country’s military prosecutor said on Friday.Investigators last month received a tipoff about “soldiers and former soldiers working in intelligence” who were scouting out the homes and other locations used by key figures in the junta, including strongman Captain …

Burkina arrests three soldiers over ‘plot’ against regimeFri, 08 Sep 2023 15:54:09 GMT Read More »

A world facing catastrophic climate change is perilously off course in meeting goals for slashing carbon pollution and boosting finance for the developing world, according to the UN’s first official progress report out Friday. The 2015 Paris treaty has successfully driven climate action, but “much more is needed now on all fronts,” said the report, which …

World falling dangerously short of climate goals: UNFri, 08 Sep 2023 15:47:43 GMT Read More »

A suicide attack targeted a military base in northern Mali on Friday, the army said, a day after deadly strikes on an army camp and a passenger boat by suspected jihadists killed 64 people.The army said on social media that an airport section of a base in Gao had been hit in a “complex” attack.It …

Suicide attack on Mali army base day after deadly strikesFri, 08 Sep 2023 15:03:04 GMT Read More »

Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema will begin an official visit to China on Sunday, as the heavily indebted African nation works to secure financial relief after a restructuring agreement reached in June.Hichilema has enjoyed an increasingly close relationship with the United States, with President Joe Biden hailing his commitment to democracy at successive US-Africa and democracy …

Debt-ridden Zambia’s leader to visit top creditor ChinaFri, 08 Sep 2023 14:03:12 GMT Read More »

Children in eastern DR Congo are facing unheard-of violence, the UN warned Friday, cataloguing rapes, killings and use of youngsters by armed groups, including a case of infant twins taped to a booby-trapped bomb.The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said the war-torn country had the world’s highest number of UN-verified violations against children in armed …

Violence makes eastern DR Congo ‘worst place’ for children : UNFri, 08 Sep 2023 12:02:44 GMT Read More »

Russia “must stop” its blockade of Ukrainian seaports after pulling out of a United Nations and Turkey-mediated deal to ensure grain shipments, European Council president Charles Michel said Friday.”It’s frankly scandalous that Russia, after having terminated the Black Sea grain initiative, is blocking and attacking Ukrainian ports. This must stop,” Michel told reporters in India’s …

EU’s Michel says Russian blockade of Ukraine ports ‘must stop’Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:38:19 GMT Read More »

Attacks on an army base and a passenger boat on the Niger River in northern Mali on Thursday by suspected jihadists killed 64 people, a Malian official said.The two separate attacks targeted the Timbuktu boat on the Niger river and an army position at Bamba, in the northern Gao region with “a provisional toll of …

Mali river boat, base attacks kill 64Thu, 07 Sep 2023 22:31:17 GMT Read More »

The United States is moving some of its troops from a base in Niger’s capital Niamey — where rebel officers seized power in a July coup — to another in the Agadez area, the Pentagon said Thursday.Washington has some 1,100 military personnel in the country, but the Defense Department says they have largely remained on …

US conducting ‘precautionary’ repositioning of forces in NigerThu, 07 Sep 2023 20:50:06 GMT Read More »

Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met Qatar’s emir on Thursday during his third trip abroad since war broke out in April, after also visiting Egypt and South Sudan in recent days.Burhan, whose troops are fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), had spent months under siege inside the military headquarters in Khartoum and stayed …

War-torn Sudan’s army chief meets Qatar ruler in diplomatic pushThu, 07 Sep 2023 18:32:26 GMT Read More »

Gabon’s military rulers on Thursday appointed Raymond Ndong Sima, a prominent opponent to ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba, as interim prime minister following the country’s coup on August 30.Ndong Sima, a 68-year-old Paris-educated economist, served as prime minister under Bongo from 2012 to 2014 before becoming a critic and competing against him in the 2016 …

Bongo critic named interim PM in post-coup GabonThu, 07 Sep 2023 17:52:59 GMT Read More »