A Burkina Faso rights group on Thursday accused the military of carrying out the summary execution of at least 60 people in an anti-jihadist operation last month. On February 5, the army said it had neutralised 146 terrorists following a jihadist attack had killed 14 civilians near the country 39;s northern border with Mali. But an ...

French investigators were examining the black boxes from the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that crashed in Ethiopia on Thursday, as the ban on the model went worldwide after President Donald Trump added the US to countries that have grounded the aircraft. France 39;s BEA air safety agency confirmed it has received the recorders from the plane th ...

From a quiet farmland at the base of rolling hills outside Ethiopia 39;s capital, the sound of wailing rang through the air. Devastated mourners flung themselves onto a ground littered with business cards, seat covers and shards of aluminium. They cried the names of loved ones who had been aboard the jetliner that nose-dived into the f ...

The deadly Ebola outbreak raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo should be over within six months, the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday. Seven months since the outbreak erupted in DRC 39;s violence-torn North Kivu province, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters there were clear signs the ...

Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire ndash; 11 March, 2019 The African Development Bank and Sophia University in Japan, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote capacity development within the two institutions for their mutual benefit and the entire African continent. The agreement was signed Friday at the Bank rsquo;s Abi ...

Germany has agreed to speed up the return of human remains and artwork from former African colonies where the country carried out brutal massacres and pillaged indigenous heritage. The German culture and foreign ministries as well as regional and local cultural authorities signed a pledge late Wednesday committing museums and scientific ins ...

With the world 39;s forests increasingly under threat from climate change and logging, leaders and top bank chiefs pledged billions on Thursday to help reverse the steep decline in Africa 39;s woodland areas. So far this century East Africa alone has lost around 6 million hectares of forest, swathes of which contain plants and wildlife fo ...

The black box flight recorders from the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that crashed in Ethiopia were flown to France Thursday for analysis as the ban on the model went worldwide after President Donald Trump added the US to countries that have grounded the aircraft. France 39;s BEA air safety agency confirmed it has received the recorders from the ...

World leaders gathered in Kenya on Thursday to lend political muscle to UN environment talks, calling for urgent action to slow the destruction of natural habitats and accelerate funding for green development. French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta were among several heads of state in Nairobi for the fourth ...

A top priority for air crash investigators is to locate and analyse a plane 39;s two black boxes which hold vital clues to what caused it to go down, including cockpit conversations. On Sunday, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed, killing all 157 people on board. The airline said Thursday that the black box flight recorders ...

The ban on the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft became worldwide on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump joined Canada and other countries in grounding the aircraft amid mounting global fears for the jets 39; airworthiness. US authorities said new evidence showed similarities between Sunday 39;s deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 73 ...