EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that at the moment the European Union has no plans to evacuate citizens from Gabon. “In Gabon, at the moment, there are [no evacuation plans]. The situation is calm. We don’t see any risk of violence, or a situation that could [be] danger[ous]. There are about 10,000 […]
Rwanda and Cameroon have unveiled significant shifts in their security forces, impacting senior military personnel. In Rwanda, President Paul Kagame retired hundreds of soldiers, coinciding with the advancement of young soldiers within the nation’s security framework. New generals have also been appointed to lead army divisions situated across the country. The Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) […]
The Home Office International Operations (HOIO) of the British High Commission has donated two cross country vehicles to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to support its Ghana Immigration Task Force (GITF) project. The GITF is a unit that liaises with the UK Home Office to check immigration crime. The gesture was also to strengthen the […]
United Nations sanctions on Mali will end on Thursday after Russia vetoed a renewal of the measures me that targeted anyone violating or obstructing a 2015 peace deal, hindering aid delivery, committing rights abuses or recruiting child soldiers. Independent U.N. sanctions monitors reported to the Security Council this month that Mali’s troops and its foreign […]
Mutinous soldiers in Gabon proclaimed their republican guard chief as the country’s leader Wednesday (Aug. 30) after placing the President Ali Bongo Ondimba who was declared winner of Saturday’s election under house arrest. The coup leaders said in an announcement on Gabon’s state TV that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema had been “unanimously” designated president […]
A group of Gabonese military officers appeared on television Wednesday announcing they were “putting an end to the current regime” and cancelling an election that, according to official results, President Ali Bongo Ondimba won. During the announcement, AFP journalists heard gunfire ring out in the Gabonese capital, Libreville. While announcing the cancellation of the vote […]
Sudan’s army chief, General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, traveled Tuesday to Egypt for talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. The trip is Burhan’s first outside of Sudan since the outbreak of conflict with Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Response Forces in mid-April. A military statement said the talks would include the latest developments in Sudan and bilateral relations […]
Malawi’s main opposition party is pushing for the resignation of President Lazarus Chakwera over a looming economic crisis resulting in fuel shortages, a scarcity of foreign exchange and increased grain prices. A government spokesperson said pushing Chakwera to resign is unrealistic. Dalitso Kabambe, a presidential aspirant for the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), told reporters […]
Members of the Gabonese army announced Wednesday (Aug. 30) that they had “put an end to [Bongo’s] regime as they spoke on national television. The soldiers on television were comprised of members from the gendarme, the republican guard and other factions of the security forces. Witnesses have heard heavy automatic weapons fire in Libreville, Gabon’s […]
President Vladimir Putin is not planning to attend the funeral for Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin said, following reports that the mercenary chief who challenged the Russian leader’s authority would be buried Tuesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov wouldn’t say where or when the chief of the Wagner Group military company would be buried, adding that he […]
