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The West African regional grouping, Ecowas, has dismissed as a negotiating tactic the announcement by Niger's coup leader that civilian rule cannot be restored for three years. The organisation's political commissioner, Abdel-Fatau Musa,…

Saudi border guards are accused of the mass killing of migrants along the Yemeni border in a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report says hundreds of people, many of them Ethiopians who cross war-torn Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia,…

Niger: Thousands Volunteer In Armed Forces Against ECOWAS Military Intervention Thousands of people lined up outside the main stadium in Niamey on Saturday (Aug. 19) responding to the call for civilian auxiliaries in support of the armed…

Morocco has not made a formal request to join the BRICS grouping and will not attend its summit in South Africa, state news agency MAP said on Saturday. Citing an unnamed diplomatic source, MAP denied a statement by South Africa’s foreign…

Gabonese Francois Ndong Obiang, president of the Alternance 2023 opposition grouping, said Friday (Aug. 18) that the main opposition figures, who had previously been looking at selecting their own separate candidates, had surprised everyone…

West Africa’s main regional bloc said on Friday that it had agreed an undisclosed “D-Day” for a possible military intervention to restore democracy in Niger if diplomatic efforts fail, stressing that it would not hold endless dialogue with…

The leader of one of the most influential armed groups in western Libya, whose arrest by a rival group on Monday sparked violent fighting that left 55 dead, was released overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, according to a military source.…

The majority of participants of a three-day meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament have voted to lift military rule in two eastern provinces deeply affected by long-raging insecurity. The state of siege, where military…

As his hunger strike enters its third week, concern is growing over Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko's health. Speaking to French broadcaster RFI, the opposition Yewwi Askan Wi coalition said Sonko had rejected its pleas to end…

The former director-general of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN), Cosma Wilungula, and two other former officials of this public institute in the DRC have been placed on the US sanctions list, according to a press…