Pressure mounts on Niger Coup leaders as deadline looms
Pressure mounted Saturday on the leaders of a coup in Niger on the eve of a deadline set by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS for the military to relinquish…
Pressure mounted Saturday on the leaders of a coup in Niger on the eve of a deadline set by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS for the military to relinquish…
The coup in Niger will undermine the fight against resurgent terror groups in Africa’s Sahel region, France’s defence minister said this week, accusing the country’s junta of taking “hostage” not…
The Senate has clarified President Bola Tinubu’s letter to the lawmakers about the coup in the Niger Republic. Senate President Godswill Akpabio said Tinubu only asked for the lawmaker’s approval…
France prepared to evacuate French and other European citizens from Niger on Tuesday, six days after a coup that toppled one of the last pro-Western leaders in the jihadist-plagued Sahel…
France will begin evacuating its nationals from Niger on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, after a coup there last week toppled the country’s pro-Western leader. The decision to move citizens…
Any military intervention in Niger to restore deposed President Mohamed Bazoum would be considered a “declaration of war against Burkina Faso and Mali”, the two countries said in a joint…
A planned 30 billion CFA francs ($51 million) bond issuance by Niger scheduled for Monday in the West African regional debt market has been cancelled by the regional central bank…
Niger’s new junta on Monday accused former colonial ruler France of wanting to “intervene militarily” to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum. “In its search for ways and means to intervene…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed a no-flight zone over the Niger Republic as a swift response to the military coup. The ECOWAS made the announcement…
The leaders of the military coup in Niger said that regional body ECOWAS could stage an imminent military intervention in the capital of the Sahel country. Speaking on Saturday ahead…