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For the next two years, Germany will coordinate the Congo Basin Forest Partnership, which strives to improve conservation of tropical forests in the...

The Nigerien army and rebels in the country have yet to formally respond to charges by rights groups that both sides are committing abuses against...

Despite two years of bumper harvests, malnutrition, partly a consequence of Malawi's famine in 2005, still lingers. "The scale of the malnutrition...

Shortly before noon 7-year-old Kolotioloma Soro, her 9-year-old sister Anne-Marie and a crowd of other children tie up their cattle to bushes and...

The Zimbabwe government's emergency assistance arm, the Civil Protection Unit (CPU), is moving hundreds of people to higher ground and advising...

In Senegal drug traffickers stand to face 10 to 20 years of hard labour, double the current punishment, under a new law adopted in parliament. ...

French police have today confirmed that they are holding five suspects in the December 11 Algiers bombings. The bombings killed at least 37 people,...

The Sierra Leone government has called for an inquiry into unrest over diamond-mining operations in the east of the country after residents were...

Some 400 km north of Nouakchott at the border with Western Sahara is the village of Boulanouar. Only the passing of trains transporting minerals out...

Saloum Ceesay of Kubuneh village recently appeared before the Brikama Magistrates’ Court in Western Region on allegation of car jerking. ...