Ukrainian officials vow to invest significant political capital to deepen ties with Africa in a bid to counter Russia’s growing influence on the continent.
NIAMEY — The West African bloc ECOWAS is ready to intervene militarily in Niger if diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs who were meeting in Ghana on Thursday to discuss the details of a standby force.
TRIPOLI — The Libyan capital's most powerful armed factions battled in several districts overnight and into Tuesday morning in the Tripoli's worst violence this year, raising fears of a wider escalation and forcing a halt to flights from the city's only civilian airport.
GENEVA — Twenty United Nations and other international organizations on Tuesday called for peace, access to humanitarian support and respect for human rights in Sudan at the four-month mark of the conflict.
A suspected air strike over the weekend killed at least 26 people in Ethiopia's embattled Amhara region, a hospital official said on Monday, as the region continues to be rocked by deadly clashes.
NIAMEY — Niger's military junta said it will prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and undermining state security, in an announcement hours after the mutinous soldiers said they were open to dialogue with West African nations.
WASHINGTON — As the world marks International Youth Day Saturday, the United Nations is encouraging young people around the world to learn skills to help build a sustainable world while urging stakeholders to address youth disparities in the green transition.
NAIROBI — Authorities in the Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, have announced a crackdown on same-sex activity in hotels and bars and called on people to report the "abominable" acts to police.
ABUJA — The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Thursday ordered the deployment of its standby force for possible intervention in Niger, underscoring its commitment to the restoration of order and democracy in the West African nation.
ABUJA — Leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc are meeting Thursday for an emergency summit on the coup in Niger, after the country's military chiefs defied an ultimatum to restore the elected president and named a new government.
NIAMEY — Niger's military junta on Wednesday accused France, the country's traditional ally, of having released captured jihadists and breaching a ban on air space on the eve of a key summit on the Sahel's latest crisis.
NIAMEY — Niger's military junta refused on Tuesday a last-minute diplomatic attempt by West African countries and global powers aimed at reinstating democracy before a Thursday summit that could pave the way to military intervention.
ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI — A senior Ethiopian official has accused militiamen in the Amhara region of seeking to overthrow the regional and federal governments following days of fighting that led the authorities to declare a state of emergency.
NIAMEY — West African leaders will meet on Thursday to discuss Niger after the junta that seized power there on July 26 defied a deadline to reinstate the ousted president or face the threat of military intervention, a spokesman for the regional bloc said on Monday.
Burundi’s Senate officially launched an evaluation of the ethnic quota system that gives Hutu and Tutsi, the two main Burundi ethnic groups, to share positions in government, a first attempt to evaluate the in more than 20 years.
The Mandela Washington Fellowship held its ninth summit in Washington, hosting over 700 young African leaders that spent six weeks at U.S. universities and colleges receiving mentorship and networking opportunities. VOA Africa shares pictures from the three-day summit.
Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 presidential election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately failed attempt to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
NIAMEY/ABUJA — Hundreds of people rallied in support of Niger's ruling junta and against foreign interference in the capital on Thursday, as West African defense chiefs wind up meetings discussing possible intervention in Niger after last week's coup.
Envoys from the West African bloc ECOWAS were expected in Niger on Wednesday, a week after a coup triggered alarm among neighbors and allies, as France evacuated more citizens from the capital Niamey.
NIAMEY — France and Italy prepared on Tuesday to fly out their citizens and other Europeans from Niger, six days after a coup that toppled one of the last pro-Western leaders in the jihadist-plagued Sahel and stoked anti-French demonstrations.
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