Four UN peacekeepers have been found dead and one remains missing after an attack on a convoy in the Central African Republic (CAR), United Nations officials said on Tuesday. The UN’s MINUSCA mission said the convoy was attacked by fighters of the “anti-Balaka” armed group near Yogofongo village, more than 470km east of the capital, … Read more
A UN peacekeeper was killed and four others were missing following an attack on their convoy in the southeast of Central African Republic, the UN said Tuesday. The convoy was attacked on Monday evening near Yogofongo village, more than 470 kilometres (290 miles) east of the capital Bangui, close to the border with Democratic Republic … Read more
Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwesi Nyantakyi has been appointed as the Chairman of the Committee for Revision of Statutes, one of the two ad hoc committees approved at the Caf Executive Meeting in Manama, Bahrain. The Meeting saw the election of Ghanaian Nyantakyi as the First Vice President of the continent’s governing body for … Read more
Armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) have killed at least 45 civilians in apparent reprisal strikes over the past three months, a human-rights watchdog says in a new report. The violence pitted armed groups against one another in the central province of Ouaka, which is at the border of the mainly Muslim north … Read more
US special forces on Wednesday began to pull out from Central Africa, ending a five-year hunt for brutal LRA warlord Joseph Kony, who is wanted for crimes against humanity. The departure of the troops sent in to support an African Union regional force “will be completed a short while after it begins on April 26”, … Read more
Brutal rebel commander Joseph Kony has sowed terror across four African nations for three decades, even evading capture by US and Ugandan soldiers who have now given up the chase. The former Catholic altar boy became one of Africa’s most notorious rebels at the head of his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), combining religious mysticism with … Read more
US special forces on Wednesday begin pulling out of Central African Republic where they deployed in 2011 to help hunt the brutal LRA warlord Joseph Kony. The move, which was announced last month, will see US troops pulling out of the country’s east where they have been helping Ugandan forces track down rebels from the … Read more
The Central African Republic held unprecedented talks with armed groups this week seeking to speed up disarmament in a country struggling to turn the page on years of bloodshed, officials said Saturday. For the first time since the disarmament process began, the government — facing a resurgence of violence since last September — sat down … Read more
Ugandan troops have pulled out of the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic (CAR), the army has said. He and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) group had become “weak”, and no longer threatened Uganda, it added. The LRA was notorious for chopping off people’s limbs and abducting children to use … Read more
The Ugandan army said Wednesday it has neutralised the Lord’s Resistance Army, as troops began withdrawing from the Central African Republic where they had been hunting the group’s feared leader Joseph Kony. “The decision to withdraw was premised on the realisation that the mission to neutralise the LRA has now been successfully achieved,” Ugandan army … Read more
The United States on Wednesday added two militia leaders in the Central African Republic (CAR) to its sanctions list, accusing them of playing significant roles in their country’s unrest. The US Treasury Department targeted Abdoulaye Hissene, the former chief of the Muslim-majority Seleka movement that forced out president Francois Bozize in 2013, ushering in a … Read more
François Hollande’s reign as president was marked by a secret love affair, deadly terror attacks, and an economic policy U-turn that could still rip his own Socialist Party apart – so much for the normality he promised French voters five years ago. Hollande was crowned France’s first Socialist president in 17 years after beating conservative … Read more
Some 700 people were killed over the Persian new year on roads in Iran, which are among the deadliest in the world despite Islamic leaders declaring bad driving a sin. The two-week break for Nowruz that ended at the weekend actually saw a 12-percent improvement on last year’s death toll, police chief Taghi Mehri said … Read more
According to the company’s Vice President, the newly acquired StarTimes rights indicates the company’s desire to provide subscribers with the best sports content. Pay TV operator, StarTimes has secured broadcasting rights to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. FIFA on Thursday, March 31, officially granted media rights to all 2017-2018 FIFA events in Sub-Saharan Africa. Besides … Read more
For decades, United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accused of sexual exploitation and abuse have operated under an umbrella of impunity. Last week, Christian Saunders, the UN director of the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Management, told Al Jazeera’s The Stream that this was about to change. “There is no longer going to be impunity,” he said, … Read more
play videoLocals say they see signs that the economy is starting to pick up One year after Faustin-Archange Touadera became president of the Central African Republic, citizens say the security situation has improved, but more work remains to be done. FRANCE 24’s Clement Bonnerot reports from Bangui. When he took office, Touadera promised to unify … Read more
Uganda’s army on Wednesday hailed the surrender of a senior commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army who was in charge of communication for leader Joseph Kony. Major Michael Omona returned to his hometown of Gulu in northern Uganda on Monday, 23 years after he was kidnapped by the feared LRA. He handed himself over to … Read more
Comoros will now play in the group stage of the qualifying campaign for the 2019 AFCON South Sudan and Comoros booked their places in the group stage of qualifying for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations with a aggregate victories. South Sudan thrashed Djibouti 6-0 in Juba on Tuesday to overturn a first leg deficit … Read more
A top US military commander has said the LRA has been reduced to “irrelevance” after years of joint military operations have killed most of its forces. Its leader, Joseph Kony, is still on the run. US military operations against the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa are “coming to an end,” a top American general … Read more
At least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured since Tuesday after armed men attacked three villages in the central Bambari region of the Central African Republic, local residents who fled their homes told AFP. Prosper Tchoulekrayo, who escaped from Yasseneme village, said the attackers had “fired indiscriminately on the inhabitants”. “The provisional … Read more