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Côte d’Ivoire: Gunmen kill 11 in military camps

December 3, 2015 Steven Addamah 0

Côte d’Ivoire’s army took back control of a village and camps on its southwestern border with Liberia after eleven people, including seven soldiers, were killed […]

Burkina Faso: Roch Marc Kabore wins presidential vote

December 1, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Roch Marc Kabore, who served as Prime Minister under ousted president Blaise Compaore, has been declared winner of the West African nation’s first free and […]

Burkina Faso: Polls Unfolded Peacefully, Vote Counting Underway

November 30, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

Voters in Burkina Faso have voted Sunday for a new president and parliament in what is being called the country’s most open election in its […]

US condemns Rwandan parliament over Kagame’s third term vote

November 19, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

The United States has condemned on Wednesday a vote by Rwanda’s two houses of parliament to approve a change to their constitution that allows President […]

Burkina Faso: 14 candidates kick off presidential poll campaign

November 9, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

A presidential campaign, initially set for October but delayed by a failed coup, has finally kicked off on Sunday in Burkina Faso. Fourteen candidates are […]

India-Africa Summit Kicks off Monday

October 25, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

The third India-Africa Forum Summit convening in New Delhi October 26 through 29 under the topic “Reinvigorated Partnership, Shared Vision” will be attended by over […]

Burkina-Faso: Autopsy of late Sankara shows his body ‘riddled with bullets’

October 14, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

An autopsy has shown the suspected remains of Burkina Faso’s ex-president Thomas Sankara were riddled with bullets, strengthening assertions that he was executed in a […]

Burkina Faso: Coup leader and ex-foreign minister charged

October 7, 2015 Steven Addamah 0

A court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday charged a general and a former foreign minister with crimes including threatening state security and murder in the […]

Burkina Faso: coup leaders’ assets frozen

September 28, 2015 Steven Addamah 0

Judicial authorities in Burkina Faso on Saturday froze the assets of General Gilbert Diendere and 13 other individuals believed to have had a role in […]