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Defence chiefs from West Africa's regional bloc, ECOWAS, will convene in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, for a two-day meeting starting Wednesday to address last week's coup in Niger, as stated in the bloc's Tuesday announcement. On Sunday,…

Myanmar's ruling military pardoned has jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five of the 19 offences for which she was convicted but she will remain under house arrest, state media and informed sources said. The pardons mean six years…

Malian voters cast ballots on a new draft constitution Sunday in a referendum that the country's coup leader says will pave the way toward holding new elections in 2024, but that critics have called a delaying tactic for him to extend his…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Mali's ruling junta to "accelerate" the pace of returning power to elected civilians by early 2024 as it has pledged to do, in a report to the Security Council. In this report, on the eve…

The head of Burkina Faso's ruling junta has met the president he overthrew in a coup this year, for talks to "defuse" the political situation. Roch Marc Christian Kabore, the elected president until his ousting in January, was…

Some 500 people demonstrated in response to a call from the opposition against the ruling military junta in Chad. The protesters are also chanting slogans against France, which they have accused of supporting the regime. "What right…

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has appealed to the military junta in Mali to announce an acceptable timetable for elections. Guterres reacted to the junta's suggestion that they would remain in power for five…

UN Security Council delegates, led by the ambassadors from the US, France and Niger, arrived in Bamako for two days of talks to push the military-led interim government for a return to democracy after two coups in nine months. The…

Leaders of political parties in Guinea met on Tuesday with members of the junta that removed President Alpha Conde from power a week ago. The meeting was the first of several that the National Committee for Rally and Development (CNRD),…

A leading figure in Guinea's opposition has urged regional bloc ECOWAS not to impose economic sanctions on Guinea's new military regime, describing the recent coup as a "welcome development". "The junta does not deserve to be sanctioned…