The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has directed the deployment of standby military troops to restore constitutional order in the Niger Republic. ECOWAS gave...
A presidential candidate in the forthcoming election in Ecuador has been shot dead at a campaign rally. Fernando Villavicencio, a member of the national assembly, was...
Forty-one migrants sailing from Africa have died in a shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa in Italy. According to BBC, four people who survived the shipwreck...
The United Nations says the closure of borders and airspace in the Niger Republic is cutting off supplies of medicine and food to the landlocked country....
Abdourahmane Tiani, Niger Republic’s self declared head of state, has named Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, former minister of economy and finance, as the country’s new prime...
Niger’s military leaders have announced that they have closed the country’s airspace. Reading a statement on national television on Sunday, Amadou Abdramane, spokesperson for the junta,...
Imran Khan, former Pakistan prime minister, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for illegally selling state gifts. A trial court in Islamabad, the country’s capital,...
Nigelec, Niger’s electricity company, says Nigeria’s government has cut supply to the neighbouring country, leading to blackouts in major cities. The electricity company disclosed this in...
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea, three West African nations, have backed the coup leaders in Niger, a move that poses a threat to regional stability. Previous...
Abdourahamane Tiani, a general, has been declared as Niger’s new head of state following a military coup that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum. Tiani was the head...