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Africa
9/28/2023 2:21:07 PM
Four officers have been detained for questioning in Burkina Faso, a prosecutor said on Thursday, a day after the military government announced it had thwarted a coup attempt.
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Africa
9/27/2023 1:47:57 PM
France's ambassador to Niger left the capital Niamey early Wednesday, after weeks of tensions between Paris and the post-coup regime in the West African country who demanded his expulsion.
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Africa
9/27/2023 10:47:02 AM
The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended most non-humanitarian aid to Gabon after a military takeover in the country last month that was at least the second this year in an African nation.
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Africa
9/25/2023 9:49:08 AM
Niger's military rulers on Sunday welcomed the announcement that France will pull its troops out of the country by the end of the year as "a new step towards sovereignty".
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Africa
9/24/2023 10:01:16 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said France is imminently to withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by its military contingent in the next months, in the wake of the coup in the west African country that ousted the pro-Paris president.
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Africa
9/24/2023 11:23:35 AM
Mali "will not stand idly by" if foreign governments intervene in neighouring Niger, Bamako's top diplomat warned the United Nations on Saturday, after both countries' juntas joined a mutual defense pact.
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Africa
9/23/2023 10:40:22 AM
Niger's coup leaders accused the head of the United Nations on late Friday of obstructing their participation in the body's General Assembly, saying it was "likely to undermine any effort to end the crisis in our country".
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World
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Africa
9/21/2023 9:35:44 PM
The recent coups in Africa are attempts by militaries to save their countries from presidents' “broken promises," the head of Guinea’s junta said Thursday as he rebuffed the West for boxing in the continent of more than 1 billion people.
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World
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Africa
9/19/2023 8:40:49 PM
Burkina Faso's transitional legislature on Tuesday approved a law authorising the dispatch of troops to neighbouring Niger, which faces threatened military intervention to restore civilian rule following a coup.
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International
9/19/2023 6:08:01 PM
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday slammed calls for a "coup" in Armenia, as protesters gathered outside government offices in Yerevan, hours after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
9/15/2023 2:32:00 PM
Al Ahram Weekly takes stock of the terrorism that has followed on the heels of political transformation in West Africa
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Africa
9/14/2023 11:53:14 AM
A French official detained in Niger last week has been released, the French government said Thursday. The arrest heightened tensions between France and Niger, where military officers deposed an elected president last month and ordered French officials to leave.
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Africa
9/11/2023 9:23:25 PM
Gabon's new ruler General Brice Oligui Nguema on Monday appointed former opposition leaders and stalwarts of the ousted regime to both houses of parliament.
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Africa
9/9/2023 9:46:49 PM
Gabon's interim Prime Minister Raymond Ndong Sima announced his new government team Saturday, including military figures and ex-ministers under ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba, but none of the main opposition figures.
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Africa
9/7/2023 12:17:14 PM
Central Africa's mediator for Gabon and the country's new military ruler have agreed to draw up a "roadmap" for restoring democratic rule following a coup last week, a regime official said.
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Africa
9/7/2023 9:46:08 AM
Gabon's former president Ali Bongo, who was ousted in a putsch, is free to leave the country and travel abroad the leader of the coup that toppled him said on Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/6/2023 9:59:00 AM
"Whether in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger or Gabon, one key reason behind the popular support for recent coups is that many African peoples have grown frustrated with the status quo and the way the ruling elites have functioned for decades, leading to more poverty, suffering and waves of refugees who would rather die trying to emigrate than stay home, jobless and poor."
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
9/5/2023 10:08:45 PM
Last week’s military coup in the West African state of Gabon is part of a series of anti-Western developments that opens the door further to the non-Western powers, writes Karam Said
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Africa
9/5/2023 12:22:41 PM
Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has appointed two new officials to protect his security, who took up their duties on Monday with the head of state alluding to coups d'etat elsewhere in Africa.
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World
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Africa
9/4/2023 9:54:17 PM
Niger's military-appointed prime minister on Monday said he saw hopes of a deal with the West African bloc ECOWAS, which has threatened to use force to restore civilian rule after a coup in July.
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