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Niger again fails to meet debt payment as post-coup woes pile

Niger failed to make a debt payment of 13.4 billion CFA francs ($22 million) last week, the West African debt management agency said on Monday (19 February), bringing the total default to $519 million since a coup in July 2023 and its subsequent suspension from regional financial markets. The West African Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU) […]

Seizure of over 9 tons of cannabis near Tangier; five drug dealers arrested

Policemen arrested on Friday five people for their alleged links to an international drug trafficking network and seized 9.1 tons of cannabis resin. The banned substance was seized in a farm in Gzennaya region, about 20 km from Tangier, the national police said in a statement, adding that the operation was conducted on the basis […]

Ethiopia: Tigray protesters demand Eritrean troops’ withdrawal, return of displaced

Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday (23 May) in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops and soldiers and the return of individuals displaced during the two-year conflict Tigray residents demand that Ethiopia’s allies – Eritrean troops and militiamen from the neighboring Amhara region – who had stayed following the cease-fire last […]