The military junta in Niger has notified the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that it will not be hosting the joint ECOWAS/AU/UN mission that was expected to arrive Niamey Tuesday, August 8. The junta has prevented the mission from proceeding in the lead-up to the Extraordinary summit scheduled for Thursday in Abuja, Nigeria….
The military junta in Niger Republic has appointed the country’s former economy minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the new prime minister. Zeine is expected to head discussions on the creation of a new government. A spokesman for the military junta made the announcement on national television late on Monday night. This is coming almost…
Reports from Niger Republic say the United States (U.S) Acting Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, held talks with officials of the countries military junta and expressed the demand of the U.S. government for the release and reinstatement of the democratic government of Mohamed Bazoum. Speaking about the meeting, Nuland said the government officials did…
Senegalese opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko, who is on hunger strike, was admitted to the Emergency Department of the Main Hospital in Dakar. His lawyer, Abdoulaye Tall, told the I’Observateur newspaper. Tall said “it’s true that Ousmane Sonko was admitted to the emergency room at midday. His health deteriorated sharply. It was around 3 p.m. that…
MONROVIA – FrontPageAfrica has learned that a former Chief Superintendent of the Sierra Leonean Police, who had sought refuge in Liberia after being dismissed, has been apprehended by the Liberia National Police. The arrest came in response to a request from Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio, who accused the ex-police officer of involvement in…
A statement released by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has annoumced that Nigeria’s president and Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the ECOWAS, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has convened another Extraordinary Summit of the Authority on the political situation in the Republic of Niger. The Summit will hold…
The French government announced the suspension of funding and development assistance to Burkina Faso because of the West African country’s support for the military junta in Niger. A message posted on the website of the French Foreign Ministry stated that “France is suspending until further notice all its development assistance and budget support operations in…
In a show of support for the military junta in Niger, crowds, filled the 35,000 capacity Seyni Kountché stadium in Niamey, Niger to show their support for the military coup, ahead of the deadline issued by the regional body, ECOWAS, for the junta to step down. ECOWAS threatened military action if ousted President Mohamed Bazoum…
Reports coming in from Nigeria say Senators have rejected the request by the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for permission to deploy Nigerian troops to Niger Republic as part of an ECOWAS force to reinstate the democratically elected president of the country, President Mohamed Bazoum. ECOWAS leaders at a meeting in Abuja, four days after…
Reports indicate that the Nigerièn military junta has severed ties with Nigeria, Togo, France, its former coloniser, and the United States, recalling its ambassadors to those countries. A member of the military junta was quoted by Radio France International (RFI) as saying on national television that “the functions of the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors of…
