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Addis Ababa, June 4, 2021 (FBC) - Researchers in South Africa are working on a potentially new method to deter rhino poachers and smugglers by using radioactive markers to make smuggled…

Addis Ababa, June 2, 2021 (FBC) - Mali’s membership in the African Union has been suspended with immediate effect and the impoverished country threatened with sanctions following a second…

Addis Ababa, June 2, 2021 (FBC) -Mali has been suspended from the African Union (AU) following last week's military coup - for the second time in nine months. The first was last August…

The volume of trade between Russia and China amounted to $104 billion at the end of last year and continues to grow, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “The treaty…

Addis Ababa, May 31, 2021 (FBC) - China has announced that it will allow each couple to have up to three children, marking the end of a strict two-child policy. The change was approved by…

Addis Ababa, May 27,2021 (FBC) - The head of the former junta in Mali, Col Assimi Goïta, has declared himself the country's transitional president, after stripping the country's interim…

Addis Ababa, May 26, 2021 (FBC) - The Somali government has said that federal and regional leaders have made progress on election talks and are set to sign an agreement on Thursday.…

Addis Ababa, May 24, 2021 (FBC) - The world is “at war” against COVID-19, the UN chief says, calling for the application of wartime logic to the inequitable access to the weapons needed to…

Addis Ababa, May 24, 2021 (FBC) – In a letter sent to FBC via Russian Embassy in Addis Ababa, President Vladimir Putin has congratulated heads of states and governments of African countries…

Addis Ababa, May 22, 2021 (FBC) - Nigeria's army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has been killed in a plane crash in the north-western state of Kaduna, officials say. The incident…