At least 18 people, including a pregnant woman, have died in southern Nigeria when an illegal oil refinery exploded into flames, a security official and residents said.
The U.S. Congress is at a standstill Wednesday, with its lower house paralyzed by the ousting of its speaker, Kevin McCarthy, and lawmakers facing a deadline six weeks away to approve spending bills and avoid a partial government shutdown.
A routine EU election-observer mission to Liberia has taken on additional significance as the West seeks to maintain its influence in the impoverished West African nation, as well as neighbouring Sierra Leone, following recent turmoil in Niger and the potential of Russia growing its geopolitical footprint.
For the first time in U.S. history, U.S. lawmakers voted Tuesday to remove the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from power.
Republican Kevin McCarthy was removed from his position as speaker in a 216-210 vote triggered by a rare challenge from his own party.
Seven soldiers have been killed in Niger’s southwest in an attack by suspected rebels, and five others died in a traffic accident while trying to respond to the assault.
The deaths on Thursday come as former colonial power France prepares to withdraw a counterinsurgency force stationed in the country at the request of its new military leaders, who seized power in a coup two months ago.
The wife of Gabon’s deposed President Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with “money laundering” and other offences, the public prosecutor said Friday, a month after a coup toppled her husband.
A coup attempt against Burkina Faso’s military rulers has been thwarted by the country’s intelligence and security services, authorities said.
Burkina Faso’s military rulers said in a statement on Wednesday that army officers and others had planned to seize power and plunge the country into “chaos”.
Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Juldeh Jalloh has told the BBC his country intends to tackle mental health, a big issue in a country that has experienced several traumatic events in its recent history.
He is leading a mental health taskforce that wants to help people scarred by civil war, high unemployment and poverty.
France's ambassador in Niger has flown out of the country a month after military rulers ordered his expulsion.
The two countries had been close allies until President Mohamed Bazoum was ousted in July.
The United States is pausing certain foreign assistance programmes to the government of Gabon following last month’s coup, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement released by the Department of State on Tuesday.
