Gabon and Guinea Bissau signed Wednesday two cooperation agreements spanning consultation on political and diplomatic matters, as both countries move to strengthen ties, the central African country announced. The signing came during a visit of Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the Guinea Bissau leader to his Gabonese counterpart Ali Bongo Ondimba. “The legal framework for cooperation between […]
Niger’s junta government has asked West Africa’s regional court to order the lifting of sanctions imposed on the country by its ECOWAS neighbors following a military coup on July 30 that toppled democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum, arguing that the sanctions have increased poverty level among millions of Nigeriens. “There is no sector of the […]
Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the 53-year-old son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gadhafi, was killed on Tuesday, 3 February 2026, Libyan officials confirmed, in a development that could further unsettle the country’s fragile political landscape. The Libyan attorney general’s office said Gadhafi was fatally shot in the town of Zintan, about 136 […]
