Burkina Faso Opposition Leader Goes Missing In early November, the Burkina military drafted the 70-year-old Ouedraogo intending to send him to the front to assist in “the fight against terrorism” in the country, where a jihadist insurgency has raged for years. Burkina Faso’s former foreign minister-turned-opposition-leader has been missing for three days after being […]
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A West African delegation led by the leaders of Senegal and Ghana were in Sierra Leone on Saturday to lay the groundwork for a “security mission” in the wake of an alleged coup attempt in November. On November 26, armed attackers stormed a military armoury, two barracks, two prisons and two police stations, clashing with […]
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The United Nations Women has revealed that an estimated $1.5trillion has been lost globally as a result of different violence against women and the inability to allow women a level playing ground to contribute their quota to national development The deputy country representative of the UN Women, Mr Lansana Wonneh, said this at the joint […]
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No fewer than 60 migrants are feared to have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Citing survivors, the UN agency said on Saturday the vessel left the city of Zuwara with around 86 people on board. It said high waves swamped the boat and that […]
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Developing nations spent a record $443 billion in debt service payments in 2022, according to the World Bank, which warned the situation risks tipping more countries into crisis and setting off a “lost decade” of economic stagnation. The payments, which include principal and interest, rose by more than 5% from the previous year, the Washington-based […]
Continue ReadingA Russian delegation led by the deputy defence minister, Colonel-General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, met with Niger’s military leaders in Niamey on Monday, Nigerien authorities said, with the two countries agreeing to strengthen military cooperation. The trip was the first official visit by a member of the Russian government since the coup in Niger on July 26, […]
Continue ReadingNiger’s military leader, Abdourahamane Tiani, announced on state television that the country expects to export its first barrels of crude oil through the new Niger-Benin pipeline in January 2024. The construction of this pipeline, backed by Chinese energy giant PetroChina, was officially completed in November 2023, Reuters reported. It connects Niger’s Agadem oilfield to the […]
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire MRS Gill Lever OBE has been appointed as the British Deputy High Commissioner (DHC) in Abuja, Nigeria. She takes over from Ms Gill Atkinson who recently concluded four years as Deputy High Commissioner in Abuja. A statement from Atinuke Akande-Alegbe, a spokesperson of the Foreign […]
Continue ReadingThe Niger general who has ruled the country since a July coup met Togo’s president recently to strengthen ties as international sanctions hammer Niamey’s military leaders following the putsch.
Regional body the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) imposed harsh sanctions on Niger’s military leaders after they ousted elected president Mohamed Bazoum on July 26.
Continue ReadingFamilies in Sudan’s conflict zones could experience famine-like hunger by next summer, the United Nations has warned, while some in the war-ravaged capital are surviving on a single, meagre daily meal.
Some 30 million people, almost two-thirds of the population, need assistance in Sudan according to the UN, double the number before fighting broke out between the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in mid-April.
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