By Hamidou Traore The heads of the national electricity companies of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso held a workshop in Ouagadougou from February 20 to 22, 2024 to refine strategies for securing the supply of electricity energy to member countries. This meeting between Énergie du Mali (EDM-SA), the Nigerien Electricity Company (NIGELEC) and the National…
Senegal’s Constitutional Council has released a new and final list of 19 candidates eligible to run in the presidential election originally scheduled for February 25. The list of candidates remained almost unchanged, except for the withdrawal of Rose Wardini, leader of the Sénégal Nouveau movement. The list retained earlier council-approved candidates, including incumbent President Macky…
The opposition Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and its campaign wing for its presidential candidate, Abdulkarim Wade, Karim 2024 (K24) coalition, called a press conference on February 19, in Dakar, where they expressed their position following the recent decision of the Constitutional Council concerning the postponement of the presidential election. The decision by the council to…
A cross-section of military officers announcing the dissolution of the Goumou-led interim government on national television. Guinea’s ruling National Council of the Rally for Development (CRND) has dissolved the interim government led by Prime Minister Bernard Goumou. This was announced by the General Secretary to the presidency of the Republic, General Amara Camara in a…
Weeks after withdrawing from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and a few months after the creation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), The military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have hinted at the possibility of the creation of a common currency that would end their use of the CFA…
The Constitutional Council of Senegal has cancelled the postponement of the presidential election in Senegal. The council annulled President Macky Sall’s decree and a contentious bill passed by parliament moving the polls to December. Opposition members in the country’s parliament, who had been forced out of the legislative building while protesting the postponement, said that…
A number of top African diplomats gathered at the 2023 annual lecture of the Society for International Relations Awareness (SIRA) on October 18 in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, to discuss the continent’s position in an emerging global political structure that is reshaping alliances. SIRA is a non-profit organisation founded in September 2010 to create…
After weeks of mounting pressure from the military junta in Niger Republic, France has finally announced that it is withdrawing its troops from the country. This was made known by the French president, Emmanuel Macron. “We are putting an end to our military cooperation with the de facto authorities of Niger because they don’t want…
Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, finally swore-in his ministers, who will make up his government’s Executive Council, 84 days after he took the oath of office as president, and the appointments have reinforced claims of an all too obvious political trade-off. The list of ministers is a confusing mix of allies and strange bedfellows, even…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has confirmed reports of the resignation of its Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and the party Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore. The NWC says that the Deputy National Chairman of the party for the north, Senator Abubakar Kyari, takes over the leadership of…
