West Africa

Diplomatic relations between Bamako and Niger are becoming more and more cold. This follows a verbal offense of the Nigerien president toward the military leaders in Mali. Visiting Paris last July, Mohamed Bazoum, the Nigerien head of state vehemently criticized the military junta in power in Mali: “We must not …

Coup leaders in Guinea have arrested former minister Tibou Kamara on Sunday and ransacked his home before releasing him hours later. Former minister Tibou Kamara’s house in the capital Conakry was raided in the morning by militaries. He was after taken to an unidentified location but was freed in the …

United Nations of International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has indicated that nearly one million of Nigerian children could miss school this year as the new term begins amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity. Schools have become targets for mass abductions for ransom in northern Nigeria by armed …

Colonel Assimi Goïta and other army officers involved in overthrowing President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in August 2020 and interim president, Bah Ndaw, in May 2021, will not face prosecution. They have been granted amnesty by the country’s interim parliament. The motion was passed by an overwhelming majority of Mali’s National …

The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States( ECOWAS) have imposed heavy sanctions on coup leaders in Guinea. They impose travel bans and a freeze of the financial assets of the putschists and their families. Following an extraordinary summit in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday, the leaders of ECOWAS …

Health authorities in Guinea have announced that the Marburg outbreak which has been declared since the beginning of August is now over. Guinea is the first to detect a case of the Marburg virus in West Africa. It is about a highly infectious disease in the same family as the …

The Nigerian Air force has denied firing on number of civilians who were reportedly killed in north-east Nigeria’s Yobe State when a military aircraft fired on a village. Residents of Buhari village close to the border with Niger told the BBC they saw warplanes flying above them before one of …

The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) must hold a summit to find a solution to the Guinean coup that overthrew President Alpha Condé. The Ecowas leaders will meet on Thursday to decide how to respond to the coup and how to pressure the junta leaders …

The French president Emmanuel Macron has announced that the leader of the Islamist State group in the Sahara has been killed by French militaries. On his Twitter account, the French president has described the death of Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi as a “major success in the fight against terrorist groups …

The French defence minister, Florence Parly, has warned Malian government against entering into a deal with a Russian security firm. Wagner is said to be operating in several African countries as Russia plans to increase its influence. Malian military leaders are about to hire mercenaries for them. Ms Parly described …