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20 June

A police officer stops a car at a check point ahead of the February 25 presidential election at Awka in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria

Nigerian President Names New Security Chiefs

Nigeria's president has appointed new military and security chiefs in the latest in a flurry of key decisions after being sworn in last month.

17 June

Staff Writer With AFP

Mali Calls for Immediate End of UN Mission

Mali's foreign minister called for the UN Security Council to withdraw the peacekeeping mission in his country "without delay."

17 June

Soldiers at a Ugandan army base in Djema

Staff Writer With AFP

25 Students Killed in Militant Attack on School in Western Uganda

Militants linked to the Islamic State group have killed 25 students in western Uganda in the country's worst such attack in years.

16 June

South Sudanese government soldiers sit in a pick-up truck at the military base in Malakal, northern South Sudan, on October 16, 2016.

Staff Writer With AFP

Over 400 Killed in South Sudan Between January and March: UN

More than 400 people were killed in South Sudan between January and March this year, with ethnic clashes accounting for much of the violence, the UN said.

16 June

Staff Writer With AFP

Russia, Algeria Tighten ‘Strategic’ Ties

President Putin and Algerian President Tebboune pledged to deepen their two countries' "strategic partnership" as the Kremlin seeks to pivot Russia towards Asia and Africa.

14 June

Staff Writer With AFP

Eight Kenyan Police Killed in Suspected Al-Shabaab Blast

Eight Kenyan police officers were killed when their vehicle was blown up by an IED in a suspected attack by Al-Shabaab.

13 June

Staff Writer With AFP

UN Chief Seeks to Streamline Troubled Mali Peacekeeping Mission

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for maintaining but streamlining a peacekeeping mission in troubled Mali.

13 June

Soldiers of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali

Staff Writer With AFP

Second UN Peacekeeper Dies After Attack in Mali

A UN peacekeeper has died of wounds sustained in an attack last week in Mali, raising the death toll in the assault to two.

13 June

A soldier from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) stands guard on a hill overlooking a United Nations tank position near the village of Kibumba I, around 20km from the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's restive North Kivu province on July 11, 2012.

Staff Writer With AFP

46, Including Children, Killed in ‘Vile Attack’ in East DR Congo

At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

10 June