World
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Africa
1/29/2025 1:27:19 PM
Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa's main political and trade group ECOWAS on Wednesday after more than a year of diplomatic tensions.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
1/28/2025 5:48:24 PM
While the US has sought to expand its presence across Africa, its influence in the West African Sahel region has declined, writes Farouk Hussein Abu Deif
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World
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Africa
1/12/2025 8:29:31 PM
The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant base of groups that want to establish jihadist states.
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World
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Africa
1/9/2025 10:01:55 PM
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday pledged Beijing's full support and military aid for the world's poorest continent as he wrapped up his Africa tour in Nigeria.
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World
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Africa
12/15/2024 12:40:54 PM
West African leaders from the regional group ECOWAS were meeting on Sunday for a summit with security and the departure from the bloc of three military-led governments high on the agenda.
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World
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Africa
12/4/2024 11:54:19 AM
French nuclear group Orano said Wednesday that authorities in military-led Niger had taken "operational control" of its uranium mining unit in the West African country.
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World
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Africa
11/23/2024 2:15:49 PM
The European Union said on Saturday it had recalled its envoy from Niger because the ruling junta had questioned the way the bloc delivered aid to the West African country.
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World
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Africa
11/2/2024 2:23:23 PM
Guinea's junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya has elevated himself to the rank of army general as the coup-hit West African country marked the creation of its all-powerful armed forces.
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World
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Region
10/8/2024 10:44:48 AM
Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon have sent shockwaves through West Africa's Lebanese community, which comprises several hundred thousand members of the diaspora.
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World
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Africa
9/18/2024 6:09:36 PM
West African bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday expressed "strong condemnation" of jihadist attacks which a day earlier hit the Malian capital where questions remained about the rare and deadly strike.
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World
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Africa
9/10/2024 5:36:02 PM
Senegal's navy said Tuesday that at least 26 people died after a migrant boat sank off the coast two days earlier, in the latest migration-linked tragedy to occur off West Africa.
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World
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Africa
7/25/2024 12:46:47 PM
When a group of military officers appeared on state television in Niger one year ago to announce a dramatic coup, they said they deposed the West African nation's elected government for two key reasons: its security and economic crises.
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World
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Africa
7/9/2024 5:49:25 PM
The creation of a Sahel confederation on Saturday plunged West Africa into an unprecedented crisis that could threaten the free movement of people and goods in the region.
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World
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Africa
7/7/2024 12:49:24 PM
A West African leaders' summit opens on Sunday amid political turmoil after the military rulers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso cemented a breakaway union at a rival meeting.
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World
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Africa
7/6/2024 6:31:01 PM
Niger's military leader on Saturday said that the people of his country, along with neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso, have "irrevocably turned their backs" on the West African regional bloc.
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World
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Africa
7/6/2024 12:12:43 PM
A divided West Africa hosts two presidential summits this weekend -- one in Niger between Sahel region military regime leaders, followed by another in Nigeria on Sunday with leaders of a wider economic bloc.
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World
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Africa
7/5/2024 6:53:31 PM
The US will remove all its forces and equipment from a small base in Niger this weekend and fewer than 500 remaining troops will leave a critical drone base in the West African country in August, ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline set in an agreement with the new ruling junta, the American commander there said Friday.
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World
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Africa
6/24/2024 1:08:27 PM
The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to shift some troops to other nations in West Africa will be key issues as the top U.S. military officer meets with his counterparts this week at the Chiefs of Defence conference.
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World
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Africa
6/23/2024 8:52:53 PM
A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighbouring Benin, both as a result of last year’s coup that toppled the West African nation’s democratic government.
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World
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Africa
6/22/2024 4:50:56 PM
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani called on West African countries to come together in the face of jihadism, in an interview with AFP ahead of the country's presidential vote.
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