Mali's junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in Julytriggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them."Colonel Assimi Goita... granted a pardon with full remissi...

Military officers have seized control of Burkina Faso, claiming to be restoring peace to the jihadist-wracked country as they overthrew a junta leader who had also come to power in a coup at the start of this year.In the capital Ouagadougou, pre-dawn...

By AFPThe UN's new special envoy for Myanmar set out for meetings with junta officials on Wednesday but did not respond to questions about whether she would seek to meet ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.Noeleen Heyzer's visit to the crisis-wracked coun...

By AFPMyanmar's junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent activist, state media said Monday, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades.The executions sparked widespre...

By AFPA regional envoy tasked with kickstarting dialogue between Myanmar's junta and anti-coup fighters warned Thursday there was no "magic wand" to end the country's bloody crisis.Myanmar has been embroiled in turmoil since the military seized power...

By AFPA Myanmar ethnic rebel group said Tuesday it had captured 14 junta troops and killed an unspecified number, in the latest blow to a fragile peace in the only region to have seen no post-coup crackdown.Days after its putsch last year, the junta...