Africa
Pope Francis expressed hope Sunday for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Niger following the military coup in the West African nation. The pontiff told the faithful in St. Peter’s Square that he is following events with concern, joining an appeal “for peace in the country and stability in the Sahel region.” He called ...
South Africa, by claiming that Morocco has submitted a bid to join the "BRICS", in the absence of an official confirmation from Rabat, wanted to make the world ...
Morocco called for solidarity-based cooperation and regional multi-stakeholder integration to combat plastic pollution at the 19th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Addis Ababa on Friday. Speaking ...
No one in Sudan expected the war that erupted between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group would last nearly five months with no clear ...
West African army chiefs were due to hold a second and final day of talks on Friday in Ghana's capital Accra, where they have been hashing out the ...
More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The boat left ...
Niger's military junta has announced plans to prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for high treason and undermining national security. This is the latest sign that the junta intends ...
One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced. No military ...
Russia has warned that military intervention in Niger would lead to a "protracted confrontation" after regional bloc Ecowas said it would assemble a standby force. Such an intervention would destabilise the Sahel region as a whole, the Russian foreign ministry said. Russia does not formally back the coup. But the US, which backs efforts to ...
Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, who led last month's military coup in Niger, unveiled a 21-member Cabinet on Thursday, naming transitional Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as his finance ...
