By Rédaction Africanews SENEGAL Two people were killed and five wounded when an attacker hurled a petrol bomb on a bus in Dakar on Tuesday, the interior minister said. Bus driver Abdoulaye Diop, who was hurt in the attack, told an AFP journalist at the scene that a group of hooded youths boarded the bus…
By Rédaction Africanews IVORY COAST Ivory Coast’s nationalist former president Henri Konan Bedie, who had not excluded the possibility of a return to power even in his latter days, has died aged 89, his party said. The “Ivory Coast Democratic Party-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA) is deeply saddened” to announce the “sudden death” of Bedie in…
By MOHAMMED MOMOH The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) and the African Union (AU) say Nigerien coup plotters have a maximum of 15 days to reverse their illegal takeover of power in the country. But the warnings, coming two days after the junta formally installed an interim ‘President’ may highlight the catch-up from…
By FRED OLUOCH Military chiefs of troop contributing countries for the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis) say they are on course to continue their gradual withdrawal of forces, signalling a handover of security duties to Mogadishu as planned. After a four-day meeting in Mogadishu, the leaders of troop contributing countries said on Sunday…
By AFP Haiti has welcomed “with great interest” a Kenyan offer to lead a 1,000-strong multinational force to bolster security in the violence-torn Caribbean country. “Haiti appreciates this expression of African solidarity,” a statement from Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus said on Sunday. “We look forward to welcoming Kenya’s proposed evaluation mission,” it added. Kenya announced…
By Favour Nunoo BBC News, Accra The exact location of what is thought to be the first English slave fort in Africa may have been found – the BBC has been hearing about the significance of the discovery in Ghana. Taking care, archaeologist Christopher DeCorse spreads the rare artefacts out on a makeshift table next…
By Tchima Illa Issoufou & Beverly Ochieng BBC World Service, Niamey & Nairobi In a sign of growing hostility towards the West since the coup in Niger, a businessman proudly shows off his outfit in the colours of the Russian flag in the traditional heartland of deposed President Mohamed Bazoum. Since the coup, there has…
West African country’s interior ministry says it is taking measures to ‘preserve peace and tranquillity in the country’. Two people have been killed in Senegal in protests sparked by the arrest of opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, according to the country’s interior ministry. Two “lifeless male bodies” were discovered in the southern city of Ziguinchor, where…
By Rédaction Africanews SENEGAL The party of the embattled Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, PASTEF, has criticized the latest move by the government to open up new charges against him. They termed the move as anti-democratic after the government on Monday charged and imprisoned Sonko on Monday for various crimes, including a call for insurrection…
By Rédaction Africanews NIGER In a move considered a tactical way to protect the recent regime change in Niger, Mali’s military Junta said Monday that they stand to support the coup leaders in Niamey. Mali said that they stand together with Burkina Faso to defend Niger and further warned that any foreign military intervention in…