Somalia has banned TikTok app Telegram and online-betting website 1XBet to limit the spread of indecent content and propaganda, its communications minister said. “The minister of communications orders internet companies to stop the aforementioned applications, which terrorists and immoral groups use to spread constant horrific images and misinformation...
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North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has overseen the launch of strategic cruise missiles as part of a drill, state-controlled media reported on Monday. Kim watched seamen staging the drill during a visit to a naval unit of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), the official Korean Central News...
The Police in Burkina Faso have killed 40 Islamist fighters, the army said on Sunday. The terrorists ambushed a police reconnaissance mission in Koulpelogo province in the north-east of the country on Saturday, the military said. Five police officers were also killed during the attack. Armed groups...
A former member of the House of Representatives, Robinson Uwak, on Sunday, called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its chairman, President Bola Tinubu to suspend the planned invasion of Niger Republic. Uwak, in a statement in Abuja, said there was need to sustain the...
The leader of the mutineers who seized power in Niger, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, said on Saturday that his country does not want war, but will be ready to defend itself if necessary. “Neither the army nor the people of Niger want war, but we will resist any manifestation...
The leader of the Niger junta, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, says the army will hand over power to civilian government within the next three years. Gen. Tchiani stated this in a televised broadcast on Saturday night. He spoke after meeting with a delegation of the Economic Community...
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have met to discuss a joint defence strategy in response to the announcement by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS military intervention in the coup. Military staff of the three countries met in the Nigerien capital Niamey to decide on “concrete measures” in case...
China has conducted further military exercises near Taiwan, in response to a recent stopover by the Taiwanese vice president in the United States on a state trip. The Chinese military stated in a declaration on Saturday that these exercises were a “serious warning” to the “separatists” in Taiwan who...
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Friday paid tribute to 22 staff members killed in the bombing of its headquarters in Iraq 20 years ago, one of the darkest days in the organisation’s history. A wreath-laying ceremony was held at the UN headquarters in New York as part of...
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that a spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is pushing children into the worst cholera crisis since 2017. Across the country, at least 31,342 suspected or confirmed cholera cases and 230 deaths...
There is no doubt that the sanctions imposed on Niger by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in response to the 26 July military coup that toppled the government of elected President Mohamed Bazoum, are biting hard, especially the suspension of electricity supply by Nigeria. After...
A joint operation by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and U.S.coalition forces killed a senior Islamic State official in eastern Syria, Kurdish fighters said. Ibrahim Al-Ali, who was a leader in eastern Syria and was also known as Abu Mujahid, was killed in a targeted raid on Tuesday,...
The military chiefs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will meet on Thursday and Friday in Accra, Ghana amid tensions over a possible military intervention in Niger, according to Ghana’s army spokesman. ECOWAS member states had initially mulled a military intervention against those who carried...
Niger Coup: On Russian mercenaries, NATO forces and looming proxy wars in ECOWAS By YUSHAU A. SHUAIB
Niger Coup: On Russian mercenaries, NATO forces and looming proxy wars in ECOWAS By YUSHAU A. SHUAIB
The hurriedly declared resolution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to deploy troops to restore democracy and reinstate the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic, after the military takeover of power on the 26th of July, might have been influenced by the need to avoid...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has praised the solidarity of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) on the political impasse in the Republic of Niger. The President spoke when he received the Special Envoy of President Ali Bongo Ondimba and the...
The leaders of the 26 July Nigerien coup agreed on 13 August to hold direct talks with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) indicating that ECOWAS’s threat of military intervention has had some impact on the coup leaders. Tensions in West Africa have been elevated ever since...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has said that citizens inclusiveness in decision making was key to effective governance. Vice President of the Commission, Damtien Tchintchibidja said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the launch of the project, “Mobile Application on Citizens Participation for Accountable and...
Is the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) the proverbial house divided against itself? On July 26, the military in Niger Republic staged a coup which ousted the government of President Mohamed Bazoum. This occurred after armed guards had taken over the presidential palace in Niamey, the...
Mali’s military leader, Assimi Goita said on Tuesday that he had spoken on the phone to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation in Niger, where a junta seized power in a coup last month. Putin “stressed the importance of a peaceful resolution of the situation for a more...
Western nations are planning to integrate NATO forces with the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Putin said this on Tuesday at the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security. “We do not rule out that the...