Category: Rest of Africa

Niger has been the linchpin of US and French anti-militia operations in the Sahel, especially since the military takeover of neighboring Mali, which has shown the door to Western forces and welcomed Russia's ruthless Wagner mercenary force.

"If Harare fails to vote Zanu-PF, you will be lost," the 80-year-old strongman said as he addressed a rally for his party Zanu-PF near the city centre. 

During a session devoted to Sudan and South Sudan, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, whose country is chairing the Council in August, slammed the absence of Volker Perthes, the special representative of the secretary-general in Sudan and head of the UN mission there, known as Unitams.

Two weeks after the coup that toppled Mohamed Bazoum, the Ecowas says it is seeking a diplomatic solution but has not ruled out using force to resolve the crisis.

This week, some 120,000 Sudanese who believed that they could count on Egypt for refuge were still stranded at the border. Egypt has had an agreement with Sudan since 2004 that allows free movement and residency without a permit. This week, Egyptian officials at the...

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said there were "ways out" for coup plotters who chose to heed global condemnation of President Mohamed Bazoum's ouster.

Zimbabwe’s Information Ministry said on Twitter that the gift will be rebranded as X.

Former local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere was first banned from the race by the High Court early this month and on Friday the top court ruled that his appeal “lacked merit.”

<p>Tchiani, head of the presidential guard since 2011, read a statement on national TV as the "president of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland," presenting the coup as a response to "the degradation of the security situation" linked to militia bloodshed.</p>

President Mnangagwa’s decision to put his signature on the Criminal (Codification and Reform) Bill, widely known as the Patriotic Bill, on Friday was immediately condemned by Western countries as draconian.