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Africa
8/13/2023 10:08:37 PM
The leader of Niger's military regime is ready to consider a diplomatic solution to its stand-off with West African bloc ECOWAS, the head of a religious delegation of mediators said Sunday.
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World
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Africa
8/13/2023 7:28:17 PM
The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali on Sunday said it had brought forward its withdrawal from a base in the north of the country due to deteriorating security conditions.
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World
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Africa
8/13/2023 12:20:14 PM
One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country's ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced. No military action has been taken and the coup leaders appear to have gained the upper hand over the regional group that issued the threat, analysts say.
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World
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Africa
8/12/2023 8:50:43 PM
Nigerian religious leaders arrived in Niger on Saturday to meet members of the military who seized power last month, a source close to the regime told AFP.
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World
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Africa
8/12/2023 7:29:57 PM
Niger's detained president was seen by his doctor on Saturday, his entourage said, amid mounting concern for his condition, while West Africa's regional bloc scrapped a crisis meeting on the coup that deposed him.
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World
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Africa
8/11/2023 6:44:14 PM
As both the UN rights chief and the African Union expressed alarm regarding the worsening detention conditions of deposed Niger president Mohamed Bazoum, West African military chiefs are scheduled to convene on Saturday after a summit mandated the deployment of a "standby force" to address the crisis.
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World
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Region
8/11/2023 1:27:39 PM
Tensions are escalating between Niger's new military regime and the West African regional bloc that has ordered the deployment of troops to restore Niger's flailing democracy.
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World
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Africa
8/10/2023 9:34:53 PM
Niger’s junta told a top U.S. diplomat that they would kill deposed President Mohamed Bazoum if neighboring countries attempted any military intervention to restore his rule, two Western officials told The Associated Press.
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World
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Africa
8/10/2023 5:21:06 PM
West African leaders on Thursday said they firmly supported diplomacy in the search to end the crisis in Niger, stepping back from a threat to intervene militarily in the coup-stricken country.
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World
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Africa
8/10/2023 12:17:00 PM
In their latest show of resistance against international pressure, the military leaders in Niger who seized power in a coup last month have formed a new government, according to a decree read out on national television on Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/9/2023 9:01:00 PM
While the old colonial power, France, maintains a military presence in Niger, along with the United States, this did not save the African nation from the recent upheavals taking place in the African continent
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World
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Africa
8/9/2023 8:12:18 PM
Niger's new military rulers 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.
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World
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Africa
8/9/2023 10:34:46 AM
Coup-hit Niger's neighbours have not ruled out military intervention, Nigeria's president said, ahead of a West African coalition's crisis summit in Abuja on Thursday.
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Opinion
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8/8/2023 8:22:00 PM
Events in Niger following the military coup carried out on 26 July against the democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum casts their shadow on the region, and worldwide.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/8/2023 7:16:57 PM
Another proxy war looks to be in the offing in Africa, this time against the background of the recent military coup in the West African state of Niger, writes Mostafa Ahmady
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World
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Africa
8/8/2023 5:38:07 PM
Niger's military junta has refused the latest diplomatic attempt to reinstall the ousted president, rejecting a proposed visit by representatives of the West African regional bloc, the African Union and United Nations on Tuesday, according to a letter seen by The Associated Press.
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World
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Africa
8/8/2023 4:23:36 PM
France stands by its policy of backing efforts to "restore democracy" in Niger where the president was removed by a military coup, a diplomatic source told AFP on Tuesday.
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Sports
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Africa
8/8/2023 4:23:19 PM
Nigeria's women's football team fresh from an impressive run to the last 16 of the World Cup are demanding with the support of FIFPRO their national federation "honour their commitments" and pay them outstanding bonuses and expenses.
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World
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Africa
8/8/2023 12:02:40 PM
The second-ranking US diplomat met Niger's military leaders on Monday to press to reverse a coup but reported no headway a day after an ultimatum from the West African bloc ECOWAS was ignored.
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World
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Africa
8/7/2023 10:35:56 PM
The United States said Monday it still saw a chance to end Niger's coup diplomatically, after the military ignored an ultimatum to restore the elected government.
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