Cotonou, Benin (AFP): Benin’s foreign minister on Friday said diplomacy should be the preferred solution to the coup in Niger while pledging Cotonou’s full support for west African bloc ECOWAS’ efforts to resolve the crisis. “The position of ECOWAS, to which Benin adheres, is to free and reinstate President Bazoum,̶...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA): Tunisia’s president on Friday highlighted the importance his country attaches to strengthening relations with the United Arab Emirates. Kais Saied received Sheikh Shakhboot Nahyan Al Nahyan, the UAE Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, at the Carthage Palace, the Tunisian Pres...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA): Niger’s recently installed junta has threatened to attack a member country of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) if the West African bloc intervenes militarily in the country. Amadou Abdramane, the spokesperson for the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, made the remarks while reading ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA): Niger’s military junta has severed off diplomatic relations with four countries, including its southern neighbor Nigeria, which earlier in the morning disconnected electricity export to the country following its delegation’s failure to meet the coup leader. “The functions of the extraordinary and plenipoten...
ANKARA (AA): Niger’s deposed president said on Thursday that the country is under attack and he has been taken hostage, adding that the Nigerien junta is trying to “overthrow democracy” in the West African country. In a guest op-ed for The Washington Post, President Mohamed Bazoum said: “My country is under attack and I’ve been […]...
JOHANNESBURG (AA): The junta in Niger late Thursday overturned several military cooperation agreements with France, putting the fate of its former colonial master’s military base in the West African country up in the air. Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, read out a statement on nati...
LONDON (AA): The UK has said that it is reducing the number of staff at its embassy in coup-hit Niger. “There has been a military takeover in Niger, which has led to protests and unrest,” said the UK Foreign Office in a statement. “Protests can be violent and the situation could change quickly without warning,” [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA): All of the 10 Japanese nationals wishing to get out of coup-hit Niger have left the country, an official in Tokyo has confirmed. Eight Japanese people were successfully evacuated in addition to two nationals who had already fled to Paris, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a press briefing. The evacuations were aided ...
UNITED NATIONS (AA): The UN has warned that hunger and displacement in Sudan are ”spiraling out of control” amid ongoing fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. More than 6 million people in Sudan, about 13% of the population, are now one step from famine, according to the UN aid […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): US President Joe Biden has called for the immediate release of Niger’s deposed leader Mohamed Bazoum. In a statement, the White House said that defending fundamental democratic values, and standing up for constitutional order, justice, and the right of peaceful assembly, are essential to the partnership between Niger and t...
