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The United Kingdom is to send a contingent of 250 troops to Mali next year, to support the UN’s peacekeeping operation in the country, MINUSMA, announced the United Nations. A statement, posted on the UK Ministry of Defense website on Monday, said that the soldiers were being deployed in recognition of increased instability in the […]
Nigerien deputy chief of staff, General Oumarou Namata has been appointed commander of the G5 Sahel anti-jihadist force, succeeding Mauritanian General Hanena Ould Sidi. The decision to replace General Hanena was taken by the heads of state of the countries making up this group, in the wake of a terrorist attack against the Headquarters of […]
Kenya’s finance minister was arrested on Monday on corruption charges in the East African nation. Mr Henry Rotich turned himself in to authorities on Monday and is currently in police custody, according to the country’s Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji. The charges against Rotich relate to a project to build two hydroelectric dams in […]
Morocco and Uganda are determined to open a new page in their bilateral relations to the great displeasure of the Algerian regime which has long relied on English-speaking African countries to support the Polisario plots to undermine Morocco’s territorial integrity. The shared willingness to bolster ties between Rabat and Kampala in various sectors was voiced […]
The Malian government has launched a national plan worth approximately €2.2 billion to save Africa’s third-longest river, currently facing threats such as pollution, silting, dredging and other illegal servitude occupations. The Niger River, also known as Djoliba in the Mandingue language, is a transboundary river in West Africa shared by five other countries, namely […]
President Mahamadou Issouffou of Niger has instructed the government to develop a rice production program which will ensure that from 2023, there will be zero rice imports in the West African famine-stricken nation. According to Nigerien nutrition coordinator for the 3N Initiative – a program put in place to achieve food self-sufficiency – the national […]
US ambassador to Guinea Conakry has said his country will not back President Alpha Conde should he seek a third term in office as rumors in the country point out the Guinean leader is mulling plans to amend the constitution to this end. Speaking last week in “Les Grandes Gueules”, a popular radio show, Dennis […]
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a €87.6 million loan to Senegal, to implement its Water Development Project for the development of value chains (PROVALE-CV). The loan will be co-financed by the Bank in the amount of €60.8 million (for a project whose total cost is estimated at €122 million) […]
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched the Regional Stabilization Facility for Lake Chad, an ambitious multi-million dollar fund to scale up the range of stabilization intervention in areas of Lake Chad Basin. The four Lake Chad Basin countries (Cameroun, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria) have warmly welcomed this joint initiative, as part of their own […]
The Indian Ocean, Lake Victoria and Lake Turkana have been identified as the most optimal sites for the establishment of Kenya’s first nuclear power plant, local media reported. China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is helping the East African nation’s Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA) to identify the sites that would host the first […]