Abuja, Nigeria — AFP The West African bloc ECOWAS has warned that the region may face “disintegration” after the military rulers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso cemented a breakaway union. The three countries formed a “Confederation of Sahel States” at a meeting on the eve of the Economic Community of West African...
Niamey, Niger – AFP US troops have completed a withdrawal from their base in Niger’s capital of Niamey and will fully depart from Agadez in the north before a September 15 deadline set by the country’s military rulers, both countries said Sunday. Niger’s military leaders scrapped a military cooperation deal with Washing...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Tunisian security late Wednesday arrested the secretary-general of Republican People’s Union party over suspicion of “money laundering.” According to the local Mosaique radio, the security forces arrested Lotfi Mraihi based on an arrest warrant over suspicion of money laundering, smuggling of a...
Ras Jedir, Libya — AFP Libya reopened its Ras Jedir border crossing with Tunisia, the key transit point between the countries, three months after it was shut down due to smuggling-related armed clashes. A ceremony organised in this respect at the crossing was attended by both countries’ interior ministers alongside other officials....
Nouakchott, Mauritania — AFP Mauritania’s incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election at the helm of the vast desert nation, seen as a rock of relative stability in Africa’s volatile Sahel region, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said. The former army chief won just...
CAIRO (AA) – Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has announced that his country has signed 35 agreements and memoranda of understanding worth €67.7 billion ($72.4 billion) with European companies and institutions. Madbouly was speaking at the conclusion of the Egyptian-European Investment Conference in Cairo. The conference, held Sa...
Kano, Nigeria – AFP At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities said. In one of three blasts on Saturday in the town of Gwoza, a woman with a baby strapped to her back detonated explosives […]
Nouakchott, Mauritania – AFP Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani was set to win re-election by a comfortable margin, results from the electoral commission showed, with an official proclamation due on Monday. Mauritanians went to the polls on Saturday to choose between seven candidates vying to lead the sprawling...
Port Harcourt, Nigeria — AFP On a riverbank in the Niger Delta, a group of residents in rubber boots has been working to restore one of Nigeria’s most precious and damaged ecosystems — its mangrove forests. The team members plunge their shovels into the mud and slot in saplings at the site in Bundu, a […]
Nouakchott, Mauritania — AFP Seven candidates are running in Mauritania’s presidential election, with incumbent Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani the favourite to win a second term at the head of the vast West African nation. Human rights activist Biram Dah Abeid and leader of the Islamic Tewassoul party, Hamadi Ould Sid’ El M...
