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Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has told the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to stop the warmongering attitude relative to its measures to tackle the coup situation in Niger. He rather wants the regional body to adopt a diplomatic and constructive dialogue approach to resolving the issues. “ECOWAS leaders ought to stop the warmongering ...

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has responded to criticism over the decision to explore possible military intervention in Niger over last month’s coup. He insisted that this, and the ultimatum given to Niger’s military coup leaders to reinstate the ousted president, was the Ecowas regional bloc’s decision and not a Nigerian mandate. It comes as Mr Tinubu, who is also the ...

Malian music star Salif Keïta has resigned from an assembly set up by the military in power since 2020 to act as a legislative body, the latter announced on Tuesday. “I hereby submit my resignation effective July 31, 2023 as a member of the National Transitional Council for purely personal reasons,” said a message attributed to Salif Keïta and read ...

Morocco fans in Rabat were understandably subdued after their team were knocked out of the Women’s World Cup, following a 4-0 defeat to France on Tuesday. After becoming the first Arab nation to advance to the knockout stage, the last 16 match against the team ranked number five in the world was a step too far for the Atlas Lionesses. ...

The head of the American diplomacy Antony Blinken warned in an interview published on Tuesday that Wagner was taking advantage of the instability caused by the coup in Niger, the group of Russian mercenaries having already moved closer to neighboring Mali. The US secretary of state tells the BBC he does not believe Wagner – who initiated a failed rebellion ...

The Moroccan navy intercepted more than fifty migrants from sub-Saharan Africa off the southern coast of Morocco on Tuesday, amid a growing number of deadly illegal crossing attempts to Spain, a Moroccan military source said. “A Royal Navy unit on patrol off Tan-Tan on Tuesday assisted 56 would-be irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa aboard a makeshift boat,” the military source ...

Leaders of Niger’s ruling military junta say they can’t accept a high-level diplomatic visit because there’d be a risk to the visitors’ security. Delegates from the regional grouping Ecowas, the African Union and the United Nations had been due to fly in today. But the coup leaders told Ecowas that sanctions and the threat of invasion from the bloc had ...

Kenya announced on Wednesday that it was suspending the Worldcoin cryptocurrency, whose verification system is based on iris recognition, pending the outcome of investigations into “the security and protection of data” collected by the company. Launched at the end of June in Germany by OpenAI boss Sam Altman, the Worldcoin system is also under investigation by European regulators, notably in ...

Labour unions marched across Nigeria on Wednesday to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation’s new president, with calls for the government to improve social welfare interventions to reduce hardship. Usman Abdullahi Shagari, health ministry worker: “The removal of fuel subsidy has increased (the cost of) almost everything in the country so far, but precisely if ...

Nigeria has cut its electricity supply to Niger, AFP learned on Wednesday from a source close to the management of the Nigerien Electricity Company (Nigelec), in line with the sanctions decided by the West African neighbors of Niger destabilized by a coup. “Nigeria disconnected since yesterday (Tuesday) the high voltage line that carries electricity to Niger,” the source said. A ...