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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) […]

Libya: Voter registration process kicks off

The Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced Wednesday the beginning of the voter registration process in view of preparing next year crucial elections said to mark the end of the transitional government and make room for elected institutions. UN Special Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salamé has tendered to the UN Security Council an action […]

Tension brews between Algiers and Bamako as President Tebboune receives Malian opposition leader

Mali has summoned Algeria’s ambassador to Bamako in protest over Algerian president Tebboune’s reception of a religious leader backing the Touareg independence rebels. President Tebboune had offered a reception in his Mouradia palace in Algiers to Mahmoud Dicko, an Imam and an opponent of the ruling men in uniform in Bamako. The reception was “an […]