Daily Africa News

(Le Mali s’efforce d’identifier les auteurs de la prise d’otages de vendredi à l’hôtel Byblos de Savaré qui a fait treize morts, dont cinq collaborateurs de l’ONU.)

(Up to 700 refugees were on board a fishing boat that capsized 15 nautical miles off the Libyan coast on Wednesday. More than 200 are feared drowned.)

(L’armée du Nigeria a annoncé dimanche avoir libéré 178 otages de Boko Haram dont 101 enfants et avoir capturé un commandant du groupe islamiste au cours d’une opération militaire.)

(President Obama launched a personal push for peace in South Sudan on Monday, convening African leaders for urgent talks in neighboring Ethiopia aimed at keeping the world’s newest nation from collapsing amid civil war.)

(The U.S. is in talks with North African countries about positioning drones at a base on their soil to ramp up surveillance of Islamic State in Libya in what would be the most significant expansion of the campaign against the extremist group in the region.)

(The European Union on Monday approved €1.15 billion in aid for West Africa through to 2020, nearly doubling its previous commitment to a region that is a major source of migrants seeking to enter Europe.)

(A suicide bombing in a church in the Nigerian village of Potiskum on Sunday that killed the priest and four congregants marked the end of a particularly violent week during which 200 people were killed in the African nation.)

(Des dizaines de personnes ont été tuées mercredi soir dans le nord-est du Nigeria, dans une opération attribuée aux islamistes de Boko Haram, apprend-on jeudi de diverses sources.)  

(Nairobi, Kenya, is gearing up for President Obama‘s coming visits, and the people there have high hopes that the visit will pave the way for more tourism.)