Gambia: ECOWAS Troops to Start Returning Home
10/02/2017Thousands of soldiers from West African bloc ECOWAS will start returning home this month from Gambia, from where long-time leader Yahya Jammeh was forced to flee last month, paving the.
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Somali Police Beef-Up Security In Capital Before Presidential Election
08/02/2017Somali authorities blocked main roads in the capital and barred vehicles from driving near the secure airport compound on Tuesday in a security lock down before a presidential election. After.
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Congo Says M23 Fighters Captured Downed Air Crew
01/02/2017The Congolese army on Tuesday said armed fighters belonging to the former M23 rebel group had captured four crew members of a military helicopter which crashed in eastern Democratic Republic.
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Gambia’s Barrow Asks Regional Force to Stay For Six Months -U.N
27/01/2017Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow has asked a West African military operation, which pressured his predecessor to go into exile after he refused to accept his election defeat, to remain.
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Libyan Forces Claim Control of Long-Besieged Benghazi District
26/01/2017East Libyan forces said on Wednesday they had taken complete control of a long contested district in Benghazi after dozens of families and captives trapped by fighting left the area..
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Indonesia to Probe Arms Smuggling Claims Against Peacekeepers in Sudan
25/01/2017Indonesia will on Wednesday send a team to Sudan to investigate allegations that its peacekeepers stationed there with the United Nations tried to smuggle arms out of the country, officials.
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Trump Commits to Bilateral Ties with Egypt
24/01/2017Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed ways to boost the fight against terrorism and extremism on Monday and the new American leader underscored his commitment.
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U.N. Chief: Little Action on South Sudan Pledge to Allow More Peacekeepers
12/10/2016By Michelle Nichols A pledge by South Sudan’s government to allow the deployment of more U.N. peacekeepers and to improve access for U.N. troops already on the ground in a.
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UN Says It Alone Cannot Remove S. Sudanese Rebels from DRC
06/10/2016By Nick Long The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Wednesday that it could not take sole responsibility for removing 750 disarmed South Sudanese fighters.
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Obama Lifts Sanctions against Ivory Coast, Citing Progress
15/09/2016U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday lifted decade-old sanctions against Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, citing a successful presidential election last year and its progress in tackling.
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