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Army colonel to be sworn in as Madagascar president
AFP, Published on 17/10/2025
» ANTANANARIVO (MADAGASCAR) - Madagascar is set Friday to swear in an army colonel as president, just days after a military power grab that sent President Andry Rajoelina fleeing and raised international alarm about a new coup on the island.
Madagascar's protests fan anger against colonial France
AFP, Published on 16/10/2025
» ANTANANARIVO (MADAGASCAR) — Placards and slogans against France that surfaced in demonstrations against impeached President Andry Rajoelina this week exposed deep resentment against the former colonial power.
Desertions spark panic, and pardons, in Ukraine army
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» Oleksandr deserted from the front line in eastern Ukraine after watching his fellow servicemen being pulverised by Russian bombardments for six months. Then, those remaining were ordered to counterattack.
Prigozhin: Russia's mercenary supremo turned Kremlin enemy
AFP, Published on 27/08/2023
» MOSCOW - Mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was confirmed dead on Sunday by Russia's Investigative Committee after a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confidant catapulted to infamy by the offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia's capital.
Prigozhin: Russia's mercenary supremo turned Kremlin enemy
AFP, Published on 27/08/2023
» MOSCOW: Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was confirmed dead on Sunday by Russia's Investigative Committee after a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confident catapulted to infamy by the offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia's capital.
Prigozhin: Russia's mercenary supremo turned Kremlin enemy
AFP, Published on 24/08/2023
» MOSCOW - Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was feared dead Wednesday in a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confident catapulted to infamy by Russia's offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia's capital.
'Soledar is gone': Ukraine admits Russia controls Donetsk town
AFP, Published on 26/01/2023
» NEAR SOLEDAR (UKRAINE) - On a road near Soledar, members of Ukraine's territorial defence launched a surveillance drone towards the front line, where fighting is raging to hold back waves of fierce Russian attacks.
Ukraine's trans community caught in crosshairs of war
AFP, Published on 30/06/2022
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Oleksandra has wanted to leave Ukraine since her home was bombed. But she can't, because her passport says she is a man, and can therefore be drafted into the army.
The online activists helping Myanmar troops desert
AFP, Published on 18/02/2022
» BANGKOK - A team of Myanmar activists working in the shadows is using social media and messaging apps to persuade disillusioned junta soldiers to desert their posts and topple the powerful military.
Abdulrazak Gurnah: accidental author and voice of displaced
AFP, Published on 07/10/2021
» LONDON - Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian-born author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, has been a sharp observer of colonialism and immigration during a critically acclaimed 35-year career.