ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria said Monday that the military administration in Niger has accepted its offer of mediation to restore constitutional order in the West African country. “The Algerian government received from Niger’s Foreign Ministry an official correspondence stating the acceptance of Algeria’s mediation aimed at developing a pol...
PARIS (AA) – France will look into how its embassy in Niger is operating once Ambassador Sylvain Itte returns, a French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday. Responding to Anadolu’s question during a weekly news conference, Anne-Claire Legendre said during the 78th UN General Assembly, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna...
Paris, France – AFP President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced that France would withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by the French military contingent in the coming months, a move welcomed by Niger’s military leaders as a “step towards sovereignty”. Macron’s announcement comes two months after a coup i...
Malanville, Benin — AFP Lines of hundreds of trucks stretch back many kilometres close to Benin’s northern border with Niger, their cargo wasting and their drivers going broke after weeks stranded at the closed frontier. Almost two months since a coup ousted Niger’s president, the trucks blocked in Malanville at Benin’s...
ALGERIA (AA) – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune invited the UN on Tuesday to convene a special session for the purpose of conducting a vote on granting full state membership to Palestine. Tebboune addressed regional and global issues, including the Palestinian cause, during his speech at the 78th UN General Assembly in New York Ci...
New York, United States – AFP The European Union’s top diplomat on Monday voiced solidarity with France’s ambassador to Niger, who has faced intense pressure after refusing expulsion orders from military leaders. After sacking the elected government in late July, the military said it was expelling Ambassador Sylvain Itte, but...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger’s military leaders announced a defense pact Saturday committing to cooperate against armed insurgency. The three West African countries in the Sahel region are struggling to fight insurgents linked to the al-Qaeda and ISIS. They have recently stepped up cooperation in the face of heavy s...
ATHENS (AA) – Under Niger’s new military administration, the French ambassador has effectively been “taken hostage,” French President Emmanuel Macron, has claimed. “In Niger, as I speak to you, we have an ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally taken hostage at the French Embassy,” Emmanuel Macron said during a visit to the northwe...
ANKARA (AA) – France is not boycotting African artists, the country’s culture minister has said in response to reports of an order to stop cooperation. French broadcaster BFMTV had reported that a government letter sent to the authorities on Thursday asked to stop collaboration with artists from Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. “I am extrem...
ANKARA (AA) – Paris has hailed the release of a French official by authorities in Niger, according to a statement. “France is delighted about the liberation of Mr. Stephane Jullien, an advisor to French nationals abroad, on September 13 in Niger,” said a French Foreign Ministry statement. The statement gave no additional details ab...
