In Niger, a local company has been granted a license to mine copper. Meanwhile, military governments in Mali and Burkina Faso ...

"Niger is continuing its programme of diversifying mining production" with a move that "marks its entry into the restricted circle of countries producing this strategic mineral," according to a ...

Gabon's Brice Oligui Nguema will try to ride the advantages of incumbency and a popular crackdown on corruption to make the ...

The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, ...

Disputes surrounding the schedule of presidential and parliamentary elections are fueling the struggle for power and influence in Guinea-Bissau. Efforts by ...

NIAMEY, Niger — Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was sworn in Wednesday as the country’s president for a ...

Abdourahamane Tchiani, an army veteran, was also elevated to the country’s highest military rank and signed a decree ...

But, no amount of disingenuous manoeuvring can disguise what is, in effect, the president's coup against the Constitution. Section 305 of the Constitution provides the grounds under which the ...

Protesters took to the streets of Istanbul. Bulent Gulten: “This is a coup to the national will and democracy. When viewed from foreign countries today, Turkey is seen as having an appearance ...

Niger was, however, suspended from the OIF in December 2023, following its coup d'état. Burkina Faso and Mali were also suspended following their own military coups – with the OIF sanctioning ...