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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE In a crumbling Khartoum sports hall, a dozen Nuba men in sweat-faded singlets practiced wrestling moves under the critical gaze of their Japanese coach, 23-year-old Kosuke Sunagawa. Wrestling has been a part of…

THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Africa’s most decorated footballer, Samuel Eto’o, is appealing for funding to help people escaping violence in Nigeria and Cameroon, and he warned that the world is neglecting an escalating humanitarian crisis…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Tourists perch on a volcano’s edge as smoke swirls from the fiery cauldron of lava in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Molten rock spurts into the air as one of the world’s largest lava lakes and…

DEFENCEWEB South Africa and France announced an agreement for cooperative patrols in the southern Indian Ocean against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in each country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The EEZ is the area…

THE EAST AFRICAN In a long-awaited vote, the U.S. Congress moved to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) by 10 years. “AGOA has been called ‘the cornerstone’ of the U.S.-Africa economic relationship, and on this stone…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ADF STAFF In what is being lauded as a major crackdown on the illegal ivory trade, Tanzanian officials have arrested and charged a Chinese woman, dubbed the “Queen of Ivory,” with smuggling ivory worth $2.7 million.…

DEFENCEWEB The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has asked the South African military to help train Soldiers. It is not a new task for South African Army instructors, who have been training Soldiers from the DRC’s Army for at…

DEFENCEWEB The Tunisian Navy has commissioned its first locally built patrol boat, the product of a partnership between the government and a shipbuilding company. The boat, named Al Istiklal (Independence), was launched by Defense…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Benin’s president vowed to contribute 800 troops to a regional force to combat the Nigeria-based Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. Thomas Boni Yayi made the announcement in August 2015 during a visit from…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Members of the African Union’s new 25,000-strong multinational standby force gathered in South Africa in October 2015 to begin field training for the first time. The exercises, known as Amani Africa II,…