Niamey, Niger – AFP Thousands of demonstrators in Niger on Sunday held a third day of rallies calling for former colonial ruler France to withdraw its troops, as sought by the junta which seized power in July. “Down with France! France get out,” the demonstrators chanted, repeating slogans heard at various rallies in Niamey s...
Dakar, Senegal — AFP Senegal on Friday temporarily brought back into service a long-closed railway line to take worshippers to an annual religious festival. Three trains, each capable of carrying 240 passengers, have been deployed on a 130-kilometre line between Thies and the holy town of Touba in central Senegal, the GTS railway company...
Niamey, Niger – AFP Niger’s military regime strongly condemned France on Friday for “blatant interference” by backing the country’s ousted president as protestors rallied near a French base outside the capital Niamey. President Mohamed Bazoum, a French ally whose election in 2021 had created hopes of stability in ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Nearly 1 million children in Mali face acute malnutrition by the end of the year without life-saving humanitarian aid as 200,000 face the dire prospect of death by starvation, the UN has warned. About one in four people in Mali are suffering from moderate or acute food insecurity, the UN said following […]
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan authorities opened an investigation into the killing of two of its nationals in Algerian territorial waters, media reports said Friday. Citing a judicial official, Morocco’s official MAP news agency reported that prosecutors in Oujda, a city bordering Algeria, opened an investigation into killings tha...
Niamey, Niger – AFP Niger braced Friday for a weekend of planned anti-French rallies as tensions mount between the country’s new military rulers and its traditional ally. A coalition of civil society groups opposed to the presence of French forces in Niger has called a three-day sit-in, starting Friday. The protest, organised by th...
– ‘French army is ready to respond to any renewed tension that would target French military and diplomatic facilities in Niger,’ General Staff tells Anadolu NICE, France – The French military said on Friday that it is ready to respond if any renewed tensions in Niger target its military and diplomatic facilities in the confli...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s cabinet has given the government the greenlight to send troops to help defend neighboring Niger, where the military deposed President Mohamed Bazoum about a month ago. A cabinet statement late Wednesday said the government was allowed to deploy a military contingent to Niger “in line with our country&...
United Nations, United States – AFP Russia on Wednesday vetoed a proposal at the United Nations to extend targeted sanctions in military-run Mali, which has become a close partner of Russia’s Wagner mercenaries. “Despite the fact that we repeatedly urged a constructive approach and a sensible compromise, the texts did not in ...
ANKARA (AA) – The United Nations has allocated an additional $20 million for growing humanitarian needs in conflict-ridden Sudan. “As humanitarian needs soar in Sudan with critically low funding, I’ve approved an additional $20M from UNCERF [the UN emergency response fund],” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said on soci...
