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A coup attempt against Burkina Faso’s military government has been thwarted by the country’s security and intelligence services, authorities have announced, with a military prosecutor saying four of the plotters were arrested and two others are on the run. Burkina Faso’s junta leadership said Wednesday (27 September) it had foiled a coup attempt the previous […]
“Sorry Africa, our stadiums are better off without your odors,” this was the reaction of the Algerian regime’s media after their country lost its bid to host the 2025 African Cup of Nations. Echourouk published the racist comment right after the executive body of the African football (CAF) voted for Morocco as a host of […]
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has potential to increase cross-border remittances by migrants, according to a new report by World Bank, even as international markets remain the largest sources. The AfCFTA has the potential to make cross-border transactions such as remittance transfers by migrants within Africa cheaper through the Pan-African Payment and Settlement […]
Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, has in 2023 honored work of two women activists from Africa to provide safer abortion access in the continent and in the area of environmental protection in Kenya, as well as a humanitarian group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. The 2023 laureates “stand […]
Benin denied Wednesday September 27 a report by a Nigerien media that a military base in the north of the West African country is under construction to house French troops leaving Niger. In a statement, Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji, the spokesperson for the President Patrice Talon’s administration rubbished the information that a military base is being […]
Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin, a terrorist group affiliated to al Qaeda, claimed Wednesday September 27 responsibility for a car bomb attack against a military base of the Malian army near the ancient city of Timbuktu, a theater of ongoing fighting between the forces and the militants. The attack took place 35km South-West of the […]
This Wednsday September 27, the verdict is in! The executive committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) voted unanimously for Morocco. The Kingdom will therefore organize the next African Cup of Nations (CAN 2025) for the second time in its history. The long-awaited meeting of the CAF Executive Committee took place in Cairo. The […]
Algeria has spared itself another international embarrassment by proactively withdrawing its bid to host the African cup of nation for 2025 and 2027. Thirsty for whatever international recognition, Algeria has reaped a fiasco after another with the most painful blow coming from the BRICS grouping that denied the country a membership that was arrogantly promised […]
Mali’s Government in power since May 2021 following a second coup announced Monday September 25 the delay sine die the scheduled February 2024 presidential elections, citing a number of reasons including issues related to the review of the electoral lists. Government spokesman Col. Abdoulaye Maiga announced the move noting that the elections “will be slightly […]
France’s decision to withdraw its ambassador and military forces from Niger, the West’s last key ally in the central Sahel region, amid a wave anti-French sentiment, are yet another blow to Paris’s influence in its former African colonies, laying bare Europe’s weakening influence in the continent, analysts and diplomats say. President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement on […]