Issued on: 17/05/2022 – 05:27 Mali’s military junta on Monday said it thwarted an attempted coup last week led by army officers and supported by an unnamed Western state. The statement read out on state television said a “small group of anti-progressive Malian officers and non-commissioned officers attempted a coup in the night of May
Issued on: 16/05/2022 – 13:47 Around 40 people, many of them civilian volunteers with the army, have been killed in suspected jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso, local sources and security officials said on Monday. In the northern region of Sahel, around 25 people were killed in two assaults on Saturday, including 13 members of the
Issued on: 16/05/2022 – 01:21 Mali said Sunday it was withdrawing from a west African force fighting jihadists to protest its being rejected as head of the G5 regional group, which also includes Mauritania, Chad, Burkina and Niger. “The government of Mali is deciding to withdraw from all the organs and bodies of the G5 Sahel, including the
Issued on: 12/05/2022 – 00:37 Guinea’s legislative body on Wednesday announced there would be a three-year transition period before civilian rule is restored, defying regional partners who have called for a swifter timetable following a coup. The 36-month transition, decided at a legislative plenary meeting on Wednesday, is slightly shorter than the 39 months which
Issued on: 08/05/2022 – 17:48 Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated Sunday in a show of support for President Kais Saied and a series of extraordinary measures he took since last July that critics have slammed as a “coup”. The rallies come as Saied faces mounting criticism over his July 2021 power grab, in which he sacked
Issued on: 06/05/2022 – 15:12 People sitting on a bench with their feet chained together … this is the scene that our Observer in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, filmed and sent to us. The people in the video were arrested by the Koglweogo, a network of vigilante groups created to maintain order. This video
Issued on: 03/05/2022 – 18:59Modified: 04/05/2022 – 14:52 A leak was detected on April 28 in a petrol terminal run by the French-British petrol company Perenco near Port-Gentil, the economic capital of Gabon. The company, which has already been accused of serious environmental violations, has insisted the leak is under control. But our Observer says
Issued on: 28/04/2022 – 14:07 Surging food and energy prices stoked by the war in Ukraine may lead to “social unrest” in Africa, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Thursday. Most countries south of the Sahara are already seeing a slowdown in economic growth from last year, and the impact will be amplified by the
Issued on: 25/04/2022 – 14:05 A jihadist group in Mali on Monday claimed to have captured a fighter from the Kremlin-linked Wagner mercenary group reportedly fighting Islamist militants in the West African country. “In the first week of April, (we) captured a soldier of the Russian Wagner forces in the Segou region in central Mali,”
Issued on: 23/04/2022 – 20:19 More than 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria’s Rivers state, a local government official and an environmental group said on Saturday. “The fire outbreak occurred at an illegal bunkering site and it affected over 100 people who were burnt beyond
