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Burkina Faso’s interim President Ibrahim Traore has assured US diplomats that he has no intention of inviting mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner group to fight militants in the country, US under secretary for political affairs Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday (26 October). Western powers have expressed a concern that Burkina Faso might follow the lead of […]
Umaro Sissoco Embalo, President of Guinea Bissau who also doubles as ECOWAS Chairman, discussed Tuesday in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin of Russia an array of issues including peace resolution to the war in Ukraine. “I also pass on the message of all 15 countries representing the CEDEAO/ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States), to […]
The effects from the COVID-19 pandemic aftershocks and the Ukrainian crisis have led to rising commodity prices, surging inflation, and shifts in the global financial situation that have transformed African trade and production capabilities, according to the latest figures published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). After over-performing in its post-pandemic recovery in 2021, Africa’s […]
An explosion killed at least eleven people and injured 53 on a bus in central Mali on Thursday (13 October), a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources. The blast occurred when the bus hit an explosive device and all the victims of the explosion were civilians, as per reports. […]
A new liquefied natural gas project near Senegal and Mauritania’s coastlines may only be 80% complete, but the prospect of a new energy supplier has already drawn visits from several European leaders, scrambling to secure alternative sources after Moscow has reduced natural gas flows to EU countries. While Africa’s natural gas reserves are vast and […]
African countries have been divided over the vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (12 October) that in the end condemned Russia’s “illegal annexation” of Ukrainian territories after Moscow vetoed a similar text in the Security Council in late September. Twenty-six African countries voted in favor of, while nineteen others abstained in the […]
The government of the Russian Federation has just approved a cooperation agreement between Moscow and Rabat in the field of the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. The ordinance enacting this decision was signed by Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Michoustine, on Wednesday, reported the Russian news agency Tass. The agreement, providing for cooperation between […]
Col. Assimi Goita, leader of the transition in Mali, held a telephone conversation with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to strengthen cooperation between the two countries. “I had a rich telephone conversation with H.E. Vladimir Putin. We discussed ways and means to strengthen bilateral cooperation, especially economic and security,” Goita said in a tweet. The leader […]
Captain Ibrahim Traoré was appointed president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday (5 October), less than a week after the latest coup that deposed Damiba amid growing violence in the Sahel. The Sahel country plunged into political turmoil on 30 September after the second coup in less than nine months that saw a group of officers […]
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has promised that his country will do all it can to send more grain to Africa, as many countries on the continent depend heavily on grain imports from Ukraine and Russia while the war between the two has disrupted global supply. As he began his African tour this week in […]