Bamako (AFP) - Former rebels and pro-government fighters have signed a new ceasefire in northern Mali, they told AFP Thursday, after a summer of intense battles in violation of a 2015 peace deal. The ceasefire lays out an immediate halt to hostilities , according to a document signed by the groups on Wednesday in Bamako, and the release of pris ...
Paris (AFP) - The world's cereal production is headed for a bumper 2017, with total output on track for a record, the United Nation's food agency said Thursday. The increase will not, however, automatically alleviate world hunger, as conflicts and weather disasters continue to threaten food security in many regions, the Food and Agriculture Orga ...
Pretoria (AFP) - The fight against poaching must be treated as a war, Africa's leading anti-poaching coalition said Thursday, as it called for the illicit wildlife trade to be monitored like global conflicts. Enact, an EU-funded anti-poaching analytical taskforce that includes Interpol, called for the expansion of a media tracking system to trac ...
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE/Knowledge Bylanes) -- The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is delighted that the governments of Senegal and France will co-host its financing conference, which will take place on February 8, 2018 in Dakar, Senegal. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswir ...
Bissau (AFP) - Authorities in Guinea-Bissau have blocked the September salary payments of nearly a third of the country's 13,000 civil servants whom they suspect are ghost workers. After a check made by a team in my department, we found that 4,000 bogus workers, who do not fulfil the correct administrative conditions, receive one and sometimes ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - An ex-wife of South African President Jacob Zuma said Thursday that she was being re-appointed a lawmaker in parliament, in what is being seen as her latest step to secure the country's presidency in two years' time. Local media reported that Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former African Union chief, was sworn in Thursday as a me ...
Bamako (AFP) - A Malian soldier was killed and a number of others were injured Wednesday in an ambush in northern Mali, where gunmen also attacked two military camps, including a UN mission, a military source said. The ambush took place 55 kilometres (34 miles) from Menaka, when one of the unit's vehicles ran over a landmine, the source said. ...
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