Thirty people died in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, on Sunday when a mound of rubbish in a landfill collapsed before dawn onto neighbouring homes following heavy rains, the government said. Six others were seriously injured in the 2:00 am (0200 GMT) incident in the Bbessia district’s Dar-es-salam neighbourhood on the...
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By VICTOR CHIAHEMEN, Abuja The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has launched a three-day regional workshop in Abuja to strengthen Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) systems across West Africa, reinforcing the region’s preparedness and response to public health emergencies amid growing health, environmental and socio-economic threats....
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has noted President Bola Tinubu’s gesture of granting asylum and providing protection to Mr. Fernando Dia Da Costa, the opposition presidential candidate in the recently concluded Guinea-Bissau Presidential Election. According to information credited to the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, and his...
Nigeria has stepped into a tense political moment in Guinea-Bissau, granting temporary asylum to opposition presidential hopeful Fernando Dia Da Costa, who is currently taking refuge inside the Nigerian Embassy in Bissau. The move follows mounting security concerns and credible threats to his life as the country edges toward...
In a sharp critique of regional election oversight, former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has accused ECOWAS of applying a “double standard” following political upheavals in Guinea-Bissau and technical disruptions during Nigeria’s elections. Obi in a post on his verified X handle on Sunday, eflected on the unfolding...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Saturday hosted former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, shortly after Jonathan returned from a tense assignment in Guinea-Bissau. Jonathan had been in the West African nation leading an election observation mission, a role that unexpectedly drew public concern when news...
Guinea-Bissau’s former president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has resurfaced in Senegal after days of uncertainty following the military coup that removed him from office earlier in the week. Senegal’s foreign ministry confirmed late Friday that Embaló arrived in Dakar on Thursday night aboard a chartered military aircraft. Officials described him...
1. With seven military coups occurring across Africa within four years, concerns about the prospects of military intervention have re-emerged in Nigeria, particularly amidst widespread national hardship, insecurity and public disenchantment. Yet, Nigeria’s historical trajectory of military rule, withdrawal and civilian transition, reveals a distinctive pattern not...
The military in the West African coastal state of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday announced that it had installed a new leader. State broadcaster TGB reported that General Horta Inta-A is to serve as transitional president for a one-year period. Much remains unclear about the balance of power in the country...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has safely left Guinea-Bissau after a sudden military takeover upended the country’s electoral process. Jonathan had been in the country leading the West African Elders Forum Election Observation Mission during last Sunday’s presidential and legislative polls. Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the former president’s...
Former Nigerian leader, Goodluck Jonathan, has found himself unexpectedly stranded in Guinea-Bissau after the tiny West African nation lurched into yet another bout of political turbulence. Jonathan was part of a 36-member high-level observer mission drawn from the African Union (AU), ECOWAS, and the West African Elders Forum (WAEF)....
Guinea-Bissau was thrown into fresh uncertainty on Wednesday as senior military officers declared they had seized “total control” of the country, abruptly shutting all borders and freezing the ongoing election process. The announcement came just three days after citizens cast their ballots in tightly watched presidential and legislative polls....
Nigerian Army has prepared 173 personnel for a peacekeeping operation in Guinea Bissau under the ECOWAS Stabilisation Support Mission (ESSMGB). The training took place at the Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peacekeeping Centre (MLAILPKC) in Jaji, Kaduna State. Chief of Operations Army, Maj.-Gen. Uwem Bassey, represented by Maj.-Gen....
By threatening to expel the joint mission of ECOWAS and the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) from Guinea-Bissau, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, who has been ruling his country as a dictator, has not only displayed unacceptable hostility but utter disregard to the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and...