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The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger signed over the weekend a mutual defense pact establishing an Alliance of Sahel States (AES) that will allow them to cooperate against threats of armed rebellion or external aggression. The AES was established by the Liptako-Gourma Charter, in reference to a region, where the Mali, Burkina […]
The government in Congo-Brazzaville has denied recent claims of an attempted coup by the country’s military against President Denis Nguesso, who has held office for an uninterrupted 39 years. These allegations surfaced on social media, suggesting an orchestrated effort by the military to remove from power the 79-year-old leader who was at that time in […]
A UN-backed experts’ report, published on Monday (18 September), has revealed that war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace deal signed nearly a year ago, ending the violence that has left over 10,000 survivors of sexual violence The human rights experts say that despite the peace deal signed in late 2022, which ended a […]
Gabon’s transition leader Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is expected this Tuesday September 19 in neighboring Equatorial Guinea in a bid to ease tensions after Malabo was finger-pointed for supporting an alleged countercoup against Nguema who seized power on August 30. Nguema’s trip, his first since assuming officially power on September 04, aims at thawing […]
More than two dozen police officers were injured in a riot during a cultural festival in Germany on Saturday (16 September) that broke out between supporters and opponents of Eritrean government, with experts saying that protests by the Eritrean diaspora highlight the repression at home and dividing lines abroad. More than 200 Eritrean opposition supporters […]
Ndong Sima, the Transitional Prime Minister of Gabon made his first foreign visit last week to attend the G77+China Conference in Havana, in Cuba. Ndong Sima represented Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, the leader of the transition in Gabon who toppled former leader on August 30 in a military coup, Gabon Review reports. The two-day G77+China […]
France’s Foreign ministry has suspended all international adoption procedures concerning children habitually resident in Burkina Faso by any person residing in France, “Sputnik” reports. “This measure does not apply “to procedures that have given rise, on the date of publication of this order, to a relationship by the Burkinabe Central Authority for the implementation of […]
Difficulties in securing foreign currencies and lack of affordable credit in the wake of rising interest rates are major challenges facing traders in the East African Community, according to a new report on the Ease of Doing Business in the EAC 2023, that also highlights traders still facing challenges at borders and markets despite harmonized […]
Russia is making “tremendous” gains in its disinformation propaganda in Africa, according to a new report by Dan Whitman, fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, who, in a recent interview, described Moscow’s disinformation campaign as the “most rapid propaganda successes in the history of propaganda.” In his report recently published by the […]
Tunisian civil society organizations have sounded the alarm about the precarious situation of Sub-Saharan migrants in Sfax, in southeastern Tunisia, calling for urgent intervention to assist this vulnerable group. Approximately 500 migrants, including women and children, have gathered at Beb Jebli, the central square of the city of Sfax, amid a rise in violence against […]