Burkina Faso authorities have arrested three captains who had helped former leader lieutenant-colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba to flee to Togo in September, when he was deposed by incumbent captain Ibrahim Traoré. Sidsoré Abdoul Kader Ouedraogo, Hassan Salem Diallo and Didas Charles Ouédraogo reportedly exfiltrated Damiba out of the country to Togo in an aircraft belonging […]
Eighteen Italian cities have voiced strong backing to the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara conflict. In a joint statement released lately, the mayors of eighteen Italian communes of Canavese, in the Piedmont region, “welcomed the process of advanced regionalization which provides for a new, more dynamic policy in […]
There have now been three fatalities amid protests in Senegal over the postponement of the presidential election until December, which has been condemned by the opposition as a “constitutional coup” and that could have dire consequences for the entire coup-hit West Africa. Clashes erupted between security forces and protesters in the capital Dakar and other […]
