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FILE: The group's heads of states were supposed to assemble in Bamako in February to see Mali assume the G5 presidency, but nearly four months later, this meeting "has still not taken place", the junta said. Picture: AFP

West africa

Mali withdraws from West African anti-jihadist force

By AFP

The country's departure from the G5 Sahel security force deepens its isolation after its neighbours hit it with sanctions in January over perceived...

  • In this file photo taken on 15 October 2021 Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo is seen prior to his meeting with the French president at the Elysee palace in Paris. Picture: Ludovic MARIN/AFP

    W.African peacekeepers to deploy in Guinea-Bissau after coup bid

    After a summit on Thursday evening, the 15-nation bloc "firmly condemned the coup attempt" in the country of two million people.

    102 days ago
  • FILE: A mission of ECOWAS chiefs of staff will fly to the Burkinabe capital on Saturday, followed on Monday by ministerial-level envoys. Picture: pixabay.com

    ECOWAS suspends Burkina Faso following coup

    Conferring four days after the latest military takeover in their region, heads of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed to send two missions to Ouagadougou.

    109 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS

    Ramaphosa hoping his West African visit will result in more investment in SA

    He has stressed that this will change the current status quo which has seen a 'one-way' arrangement of South African companies investing in the west of the continent and not the other way round.

    168 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 25 September 2020 Transition Mali President Bah Ndaw is seen during his inauguration ceremony at the CICB (Centre International de Conferences de Bamako) in Bamako. Ndaw and Malian Prime Minister Moctar Ouane have resigned after the military arrested them on 24 May 2021. Picture: Michele Cattani/AFP

    W. African envoy arrives for talks in crisis-plagued Mali

    The Sahel state is battling to restore credibility with its partners after the second military takeover since August sparked diplomatic uproar.

    343 days ago
  • Aminata Traoure, a 28-year-old refugee from Ivory Coast who survived a shipwreck in early March while trying to reach Europe, looks at a boat in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, about 270km southeast of the capital, on April 22, 2021. Picture: Fethi Belaid / AFP.

    'Europe or death': West Africans risk all to leave Tunisia

    For the 28-year-old from Ivory Coast, the perilous Mediterranean crossing from the North African nation of Tunisia is her only way to build a better future.

    380 days ago
  • FILE: The warning echoed expert calls from the Food Crisis Prevention Network a week ago, which said Nigeria alone could see 12.8 million of its people go hungry. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

    UN agency says hunger 'catastrophe' threatens West and Central Africa

    Prices for local food staples have increased to nearly 40% more than the five-year average and in some places have ballooned by over 200%, according to a statement from the agency.

    396 days ago
  • A man gestures as protesters erect makeshift barricades with tires and branches during a demonstration against Benin President Patrice Talon in Toui, an opposition stronghold, on 7 April 2021. Picture:  Yanick Folly/AFP

    Benin troops clear protesters as Talon eyes re-election

    Protests have erupted in opposition bastions in the West African country ahead of Sunday's vote, which critics says is tilted in Talon's favour.

    405 days ago
  • FILE: Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo. Picture: AFP

    Ghana candidates sign peace pact ahead of vote

    Ghana heads to the polls on Monday, and while the West African country has traditionally ensured peaceful elections and transitions of power, unlike many of its neighbours, the campaign was marked by clashes and tensions.

    529 days ago
  • FILE: President of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara. Picture: United Nations

    Ivory Coast ruling party warns opposition over post-vote unrest

    The West African country's electoral commission released preliminary results from Saturday's ballot showing Ouattara with a dominant lead, which had been expected given the opposition's boycott.

    562 days ago
  • A voter casts his ballot at a polling station in Bissau on 10 March 2019, during the legislative elections in Guinea Bissau. Picture: AFP.

    'Democratic backsliding' in W.Africa as election season begins

    Millions more will vote across the region - in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Nigeria - before the year is out, under the wary eye of defenders of democracy.

    581 days ago
  • From (L-R): Presidents of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara, ECOWAS Commissioner Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou, and President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria pose for a group photo during an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders summit in Niamey on 7 September 2020. Picture: AFP

    W.African bloc again calls for 'swift' Mali civilian transition

    The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States slapped sanctions on Mali after the putsch, including closing borders and a ban on trade and financial flows, and has called for elections within 12 months.

    617 days ago
  • FILE: Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan (C), wearing a face mask, prepares for a meeting between Malian military leaders and an Ecowas delegation headed by former Nigerian president on 22 August 2020, in an aim to restore order after the military coup in Bamako. Picture: AFP

    West African leaders to push Mali junta to hand over power within a year

    The report, not published by ECOWAS but posted on several websites, also requires that civilians fill the posts of both president and prime minister.

    628 days ago
  • A file picture shows the logo of Sasol at its headquarters in Johannesburg. Picture: AFP

    Sasol plans to cut jobs, end West African oil operations

    The South African petrochemicals producer has also agreed a deal with lenders to relax borrowing rules.

    699 days ago
  • Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou. Picture: AFP.

    Pandemic devastates growth prospects in West African states

    Burkina Faso on Thursday slashed its expectations of GDP growth for 2020 from 6.3% to 2%, in an nationwide address by President Roch Kabore.

    774 days ago
  • Picture: pixabay.com

    'Ghost' ancestors: African DNA study detects mysterious human species

    The study indicated that present-day West Africans trace a substantial proportion, some 2% to 19%, of their genetic ancestry to an extinct human species.

    824 days ago
  • Soccer ball. Picture: Freeimages.com

    Sierra Leone pro football league gets first female coach

    The East End Tigers named police officer Victoria Conteh, who formerly coached the country's female football team, as its head coach.

    878 days ago
  • An oil tanker. Picture: pixabay.com

    India says 20 crew kidnapped from tanker off West Africa

    The ship’s operator Union Maritime wrote on its website that the craft was 'attacked and boarded' while carrying fuel oil to the Togolese capital Lome from Angola and that the company was working with relevant authorities to resolve the incident.

    883 days ago
  • FILE: A picture take on 30 October 2018 shows Burkinabe gendarmes sitting on their vehicle in the city of Ouhigouya in the north of the country. Picture: AFP

    Burkina Faso army says 32 'terrorists' killed in two operations

    One soldier was killed in the military response, which followed an attack on a patrol, an army statement said.

    912 days ago
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