From deliveries of drones and armoured vehicles to training sessions led by Russian Africa Corps instructors, security cooperation between Madagascar and Russia has intensified since the October 2025 coup. Russia’s growing influence is expanding into other sectors as well, raising questions within parts of Malagasy civil society.
Three people infected with hantavirus are being taken off a cruise ship stricken by the deadly disease while the ship was anchored off the coast of Cape Verde, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Health officials confirmed the presence of the rare Andes strain, the only known form of the virus capable of human-to-human transmission.
Two rebel groups seized the city of Kidal in Mali on April 26. One of the sites they captured houses a ground control station for drones once operated by the Malian Army.
French journalist Christophe Gleizes has dropped an appeal against his imprisonment in Algeria in the hopes of securing his release through a presidential pardon, his family said on Tuesday. Gleizes was arrested in 2024 at the height of diplomatic tensions between France and Algeria.
The leader of Mali's military government, Assimi Goïta, has taken over as defence minister after the military officer who previously filled the role was killed in coordinated attacks on April 25 by al Qaeda-linked militants and Tuareg separatists, state television reported on Monday.
Two members of the US Armed Forces participating in the African Lion joint military exercises have been reported missing near the city of Tan Tan in southern Morocco, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Sunday. A US defence official said the soldiers went missing while on a hike after the day's exercises had concluded.
Mali is facing its most serious security challenge in years as jihadist fighters and Tuareg separatists launch coordinated attacks and tighten a blockade around the capital, Bamako, increasing pressure on the country’s military rulers. The latest escalation, however, raises fresh questions about the strength of the alliance between the two groups.
Jihadist fighters in Mali have called for a broad uprising against the country’s military rulers, escalating tensions as they move to tighten pressure on the capital, Bamako. The appeal comes days after coordinated attacks on junta positions and coincides with the start of a blockade on key roads into the city, raising fears of further instability in a nation already grappling with years of conflict and political upheaval.
Mali held a tribute ceremony for its assassinated defence minister in Bamako on Thursday under tight security. Sadio Camara was killed in a rebel bomb attack over the weekend as fighters from a Tuareg separatist group and an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group launched an assault against the military junta.
[ALMA] Tanzania, like many countries in Africa, has fought malaria for generations. Our existing tools, from insecticide-treated nets to antimalarial medicines, continue to save millions of lives and they remain essential. But mosquitoes continue to adapt by developing resistance to insecticides, and malaria parasites are showing early signs of resistance to some antimalarial medicines. Nonetheless, we are now seeing some very positive new scientific developments around genetic methods of mosquito control
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Experts estimate that Sudan's RSF militia may have massacred around 70,000 people in the city of el-Fasher in Darfur last October. A UN investigator told DW that the atrocities bear the hallmarks of genocide.
[allAfrica] The Honorable Professor Amine Laghidi, an eminent international expert and presiding head of several global organizations, has been bestowed with the Special Award at the Trieste Summit.
Russia on Thursday said its forces would stay in Mali, rejecting a call from Tuareg rebels for Moscow to withdraw after separatists and jihadists launched attacks last weekend against the military junta, which Russian paramilitary forces have helped support.
[Leadership] The Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Nigeria, Yu Dunhai, has assured that the zero-tariff policy for African products into the Chinese markets announced by President Xi Jinping in February will become effective from May 1, 2026.
A spokesperson for Mali's Tuareg rebel group Azawad Liberation Front pledged on Wednesday that the country's ruling junta "will fall" and said the group wanted to see Russian forces withdraw "from all of Mali" after weekend attacks by Islamist insurgents and Tuareg separatists targeting major cities.
Four mountain bongos have arrived in Kenya after being returned from a Czech zoo in a bid to bolster numbers of the critically endangered species of which there are less that 100 left in the wild. Kenyan officials hailed the return as a “homecoming of the majestic bongos".
France on Wednesday called on its citizens to leave Mali "as soon as possible" following weekend of attacks on government targets in cities across the country launched by jihadists and Tuareg separatists.
Mali's military ruler Assimi Goita made his first public appearance since coordinated insurgent assaults over the weekend, pledging to “neutralise” those responsible as jihadist and separatist groups escalated attacks across the country.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Horn of Africa is facing a "dangerous crossroads" marked by interconnected conflicts and rising geopolitical competition, the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Workneh Gebeyehu, warned on Tuesday, calling for urgent reforms to mediation strategies as wars in the region grow more fragmented and prolonged.
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