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At least 30 people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in the Russian republic of Dagestan in the Caucasus, local officials said on Tuesday. Another 75 people were injured in the blast in Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala, the state news agency TASS reported, citing the...
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Former U.S. president Donald Trump has been indicted in Georgia, after an investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis into efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results. Eighteen others were also indicted, including Trump’s personal lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Willis...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) dismissed claims that it had supplied warring parties in Sudan with arms and ammunition. “The UAE does not take sides in the current conflict engulfing Sudan, and seeks an end to the conflict and calls for respecting Sudan’s sovereignty,” Foreign Ministry official. The UAE...
Niger’s military regime vowed late Sunday to prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and slammed West African leaders for imposing sanctions on the country. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) imposed sanctions on Niger in response to the coup and has not ruled out...
After a family of four was killed by Russian artillery shelling of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced retaliation. “Every occupier destroyed, every piece of Russian equipment burned, fire instead of their headquarters and warehouses, the very eloquent smoke on Kerch bridge and...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Nigeria’s Intervention Team comprising prominent Islamic scholars in the country at the weekend met with the coup leaders in Niger where both parties agreed to intensify the option of dialogue in resolving the political crisis in that country. The Islamic Ulammas led...
The ECOWAS Parliament was on Saturday divided over taking military action as an option aimed at tackling the political situation in Niger Republic and restoring civil rule there. Some members made called for actions that would nip in the bud military incursion into politics within the region, while others...
A former Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sen. Shehu Sani, says military incursion into Niger Republic by an ECOWAS standby force will be synonymous with a declaration of war by Nigeria. Sani expressed this thought in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
A former Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sen. Shehu Sani, has urged ECOWAS leaders to allow Nigeriens to fight for democratic rule in their country like Nigerians did. Sani, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja....
The ECOWAS Parliament will on Saturday, Aug. 12 hold an Extra-Ordinary Session via the web to exhaustively discuss the recent political developments in the Republic of Niger. This is contained in a statement by the Communications Division of the parliament. The parliament said that within the context...
Niger’s coup leader has threatened to kill ousted President Mohamed Bazoum if neighbouring countries attempt any military intervention to reinstate him. According to a report by The Associated Press on Thursday, two “Western officials” said the putschists issued the threat while speaking to a top U.S. diplomat. ...
Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government; Your Excellency, the President of the ECOWAS Commission; Your Excellency, President of the African Union Commission; Your Excellency, President of the UEMOA Commission; The Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in West Africa and the Sahel;...
The ECOWAS Heads of State and Government have agreed to continue the dialogue option while not dismantling the existing sanctions taken at the last summit. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, disclosed this at the end of the second extraordinary summit on the political situation in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, says the regional bloc will continue to champion diplomacy and dialogue, as well as earnest discussions with all parties involved, to restore constitutional governance in the Republic...
The Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are holding a meeting on Thursday in Abuja on the political situation in the Niger Republic. The leaders are to decide on the next lines of action after the series of proposition made...
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Thursday, announced a 60-day state of emergency across the country in connection with Wednesday’s assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. On Wednesday, media reported that Villavicencio had been shot dead during a rally in Ecuador’s capital Quito. Lasso later confirmed the...
The coup leader in Niger Republic, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, has signed a decree on the formation of a new transitional government, media reported on Thursday. Tchiani signed the decree on Wednesday, the ActuNiger new portal reported, adding that the new interim government consists of 21 ministers. According...
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is “very concerned” about the living conditions and safety of detained Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum and his family, according to a spokesperson for the UN chief. The UN in a statement, therefore, once again called for his immediate and unconditional release. ...
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents have fatally shot a man in Utah, who was under investigation for threats against U.S. President Joe Biden. The man who was not identified further, was killed on Wednesday morning by the secret agent during a raid FBI...
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso confirmed on Wednesday the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, and announced that a meeting of the country’s security cabinet would be held within minutes. “I am outraged and shocked by the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. In his memory and the...