Category: Africa

Source: BBC The leader of last week’s military coup in Niger has condemned sanctions imposed on the country by the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS,

Source: africanews Moroccan courts have sentenced an Internet user to five years in prison for offending the monarchy after he criticized diplomatic normalization with Israel

Source: BBC The United States, which is betting on Niger in the anti-jihadist fight in the Sahel, has strongly condemned the overthrow of President Mohamed

Source: BBC Major cities in Niger are facing rolling blackouts following last week’s coup in the West African country. The power shortages are a result

Source: BBC Forty-one people who were rescued from a doomsday cult in Kenya earlier this year are to be charged alongside the leader with murder

Source: BBC Military chiefs from West Africa’s regional bloc, Ecowas, are meeting later on Wednesday in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to discuss the military coup

Source: africanews Flights evacuating Europeans from Niger have arrived in France and Italy. France began evacuating its citizens from Niger amid anti-French sentiment following last

Source: BBC The military junta currently in charge of Niger has detained a leading official in the ousted president’s party as well as two more

Source: africanews A burst of gunfire was heard in the early hours of Tuesday in the centre of Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, near the air

Source: BBC Niger’s ousted president has been seen for the first time since the military detained him after staging a coup last week. Mohamed Bazoum