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Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo: A political fighter who won’t quit
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Mali junta leader says transitional president, PM have been stripped of duties
Political turmoil in Mali deepened Tuesday as the country's strongman pushed out transitional leaders who had been tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August.
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Covid-19: How fake news is hampering Ivory Coast’s vaccination efforts
Disinformation online has led to a sluggish vaccine roll-out in Ivory Coast. Ivorian and international health authorities have told FRANCE 24 that they are concerned about the pandemic of fake news. While this problem is not unique to Ivory Coast, the West African state is lagging behind a number of other countries in the region when it comes to vaccination rates.
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Africa's Forgotten War—Photos and Stories From Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis
The violence has escalated to the point where civilians often get caught in the cross-fire between military and armed separatists in the country.
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Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno killed in clashes with rebel fighters
Idriss Deby Itno's shock death cut his 30-year political career short and will likely throw Chadian politics into disarray.
Military: Chadian president killed after 30 years in power
Military: Chadian president killed after 30 years in power
At least 32 killed in Egypt train crash
At least 32 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a train crash in southern Egypt, the country's railway authority said.
Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko dies in German hospital aged 56
Ivory Coast's Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in a hospital in southwest Germany, two days after his 56th birthday, the government said on Wednesday.
Ivory Coast's ruling party wins majority in peaceful parliamentary vote
Ivory Coast's ruling party has won an absolute majority in parliament, the country's electoral commission announced on Tuesday, three days after a peaceful vote raised hopes that the country's recent violent tensions were behind it.
Senegal protests: Ousmane Sonko charged with rape
A judge in Senegal has charged opposition leader Ousmane Sonko with rape and released him on bail, after days of deadly protests sparked by his arrest last week.
Ghana receives world's first free Covid-19 vaccines under Covax scheme
Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery Wednesday of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India.
‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Paul Rusesabagina’s Terrorism Trial Begins
Case is seen as an example of President Paul Kagame’s Efforts to squash political dissent beyond Rwanda’s borders
South African variant of Covid found in eight areas of England
Door-to-door testing launched as cases found in Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, Walsall, Sefton and three London boroughs
Campaigning in Ghana winds up ahead of presidential, parliamentary polls
Defeaning vuvuzelas and party songs took over Ghana's capital Accra on Saturday, the final day of campaigning ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis: Conflict worsens as airports attacked
The Ethiopian government says forces in the northern state of Tigray have fired rockets into a neighbouring region.
Tigray crisis: Why there are fears of civil war in Ethiopia
The federal government in Ethiopia has vowed to continue a military offensive in the northern Tigray region despite international calls for restraint.
Nigeria police 'kill' protesters in Lagos after curfew imposed
Several protesters were killed by Nigerian security forces in Lagos on Tuesday, Amnesty International said, after witnesses reported armed men opened fire on demonstrators defying a curfew order.
French court approves transfer of Rwanda genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to UN tribunal
France's top appeals court ruled Wednesday that alleged Rwandan genocide financier Félicien Kabuga should be transferred to a UN tribunal in Tanzania to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Ivory Coast court bars former leader Gbagbo, ex-PM Soro from presidential vote
Ivory Coast's top court on Monday cleared the path for President Alassane Ouattara to seek a contentious third term, as protests turned violent in several cities and fears grew of a repeat of the conflict that claimed 3,000 lives in the West African country a decade ago.
Malian soldiers killed in ambush as junta faces pressure ahead of transition talks
At least 10 Malian soldiers were killed in an overnight ambush in the country's volatile central region near the Mauritanian border, security and local sources said Friday. The deaths came as Mali’s junta faces pressure from political and civil society leaders ahead of weekend talks to hammer out a transition plan.
