The UK has put specific sanctions on people connected to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) because more proof of war crimes in the Darfur region has come to light. After a BBC Verify investigation found that executions in El-Fasher were the fault of a high-ranking RSF officer, the move was made. El-Fasher is a place […]
Ecuador has made a bold move to strengthen its national security apparatus and this was done via the official declaration of the Muslim Brotherhood qas a terrorist group under Presidential Decree 239. This action indicates the growing world-wide apprehension against extremist movements and indicates a strong desire of Ecuador to be part of the international […]
With the nation’s economy in decline, the prospect of another election in Zimbabwe looms large over the country’s decision-making process as voters prepare for it. In a high-stakes political match, President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces off against his charismatic opponent, Nelson Chamisa. Following the overthrow of longtime leader Robert Mugabe in a coup, President Mnangagwa was […]
Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), will be attending the flag-off of the party’s campaign for the governorship election in Imo State. The LP’s governorship candidate in the state, Athan Achonu, announced that the event will take place at the Kanu Nwankwo Sports Stadium in Owerri. Obi’s arrival is eagerly […]
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and the mercenary leader, has posted his first video address since leading a short-lived rebellion in Russia in late June. Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin released video footage of himself while wearing camouflage and holding a rifle. Reportedly, the video was possibly shot in Africa. The video clip was reportedly […]
According to journalists from AFP, Senegal brought back on Monday from Cape Verde approximately forty of its people who had survived a crossing that was supposed to take them to Europe but instead resulted in the deaths of approximately sixty migrants. The Senegalese military plane that carried the survivors back to the country landed at […]
The Ministry of Communications and Technology in Somalia has given the internet service providers instructions to block access to the social media platforms TikTok and Telegram, as well as the gambling website 1xBet. Jama Hassan Khalif, the Minister of Communications and Technology, issued the directive in a statement on Sunday. He cited security and combating […]
Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, has said that his country will not be forced to side with any global powers, ahead of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg. On Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation. He vowed not to be drawn into a contest between global powers as he readied to host the […]
Ten days after soldiers took Niger’s president hostage and declared himself the new government of the West African country, the No. 2 US diplomat visited the capital, Niamey. The Sahel region, a poor, arid sub-Saharan region, has seen six coups in the past three years, but none have produced a figure like Victoria Nuland, a […]
The trench warfare in Ukraine reminds us of World War I and China’s global ambitions are similar to the search for «a place in the sun» of Germany’s last emperor William II. In the Far East and particularly in Japan, one notes ominous signs of developments similar to those that led up to the Pacific War from […]
On Tuesday, August 15, the fourth month of what began as a power struggle in Sudan that threatened to turn the nation into a war began. A spokesman for the U.N. human rights office named Liz Throssell estimates that at least 4,000 people have died. Every day that the conflict lasts, lives are lost, there […]
Niger’s Foreign Minister, Mohamed Bazoum, the president overthrown by a coup d’état in Niger, reported “pogroms” in the capital Niamey on Monday, without however specifying against whom they were directed. “Currently in Niamey (…) there are pogroms by hordes of young people stirred up by racial and ethnic hatred (…) That’s why it’s urgent to […]
According to reports from lawyers and witnesses, the Ethiopian government is reportedly conducting mass arrests in the country’s capital city as a response to the violent violence that occurred in the Amhara area of the country. Ethiopia’s Cabinet declared an emergency situation in Amhara earlier this month after local militia fighters known as Fano took […]
The Horn of Africa may be in danger of experiencing more severe droughts as a result of ongoing human-caused global warming. An unpleasant forecast is presented in a detailed study that was recently published in the Nature Journal. The conclusions are based on a reconstruction made from lake sediment that shows the variability of the […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa, searched diplomatic ways on Sunday to overturn last month’s coup in Niger, a landlocked country in West Africa. On Saturday, West Africa’s regional bloc said that it wanted to send a parliamentary committee to meet […]
Following the coup, authorities in Malanville, which is located on the border between Benin and Niger, have stopped more than one hundred trucks on their way to Niger. Benin blocked its border with Niger in compliance with one of the decisions issued by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which has resulted in […]
Tunisia has become a hub for illegal immigration to Europe. According to Italian statistics, almost 94,000 migrants have arrived on Italian shores since the beginning of the year, more than double the figure recorded for the same period in 2022, from Tunisia and Libya. Since the beginning of the month until today, in just ten […]
Two Western sources who spoke with The Associated Press claim that the Nigerian junta informed a senior US diplomat that it would assassinate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum if neighboring nations attempted a military intervention to restore his authority. They spoke with the Associated Press not long before the West African bloc ECOWAS said that it […]
Bazoum is still held in detention by the military high command in Niger. President on the issue of Niger Republic. We want to find a lasting solution, we want peace and harmony to reign, not only in Nigeria, but in the sub-Saharan region and in globe as well. “”The Ulama advised Mr. President that we want peace and reconciliation. “That’s why we […]
On Wednesday, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa told more than 150,000 of his fans in the nation’s capital city of Harare that they would be “lost” if they did not re-elect him in the tense elections that are taking place this month. “If Harare fails to vote Zanu-PF, you will be lost,” the 80-year-old strongman declared […]