•ECOWAS leaders in Abuja yesterday The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to lift some sanctions on Niger Republic, Mali and Guinea. The resolution was taken at the extraordinary summit on the peace, political, and security situation in the ECOWAS sub-region in Abuja yesterday, reports Channels TV. While the region...
•ECOWAS logo The Economic Community of West African States is expected to suspend all sanctions imposed on Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, who are under military rule after juntas overthrew the civilian governments of all three countries. This is as President Bola Tinubu, who serves as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States, [&helli...
•President Joe Biden (C) meets with Yulia Navalnaya (R), widow of late Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny President Joe Biden said yesterday he met privately in California with the widow and daughter of Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last week in a Russian prison. After meeting with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya in San [&...
•UK Parliament Pro-Palestinian protesters and politicians responded in outrage yesterday when a United Kingdom parliamentary debate and vote on a Scottish National Party motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza ended with the adoption of a Labour Party amendment. The SNP had put forward a call “for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel,” con...
The silent war between the Federal Government of Nigeria and that of Niger Republic is getting deeper as the government of the Francophone African country has singled out all flights from Nigeria for total ban from its airspace. The ban which was contained in circular issued by the Bureau Notam International De L’Quest African to […]
•General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) Former Nigerian Head of State and one of the founding fathers of the Economic Community of West African States, Yakubu Gowon, has urged the regional political and economic union to lift sanctions on Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic. Gowon made the call in an open letter to the Heads of […]
•Photographs showing late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny A court in the Russian Far North will next month hear a case brought by the mother of dead opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been prevented from seeing his body, his allies said today. Lyudmila Navalnaya has travelled to the remote IK-3 prison where her son […]
•Biden and Putin The United States will announce new sanctions on Russia on Friday over the death in prison of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, coinciding with the second anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the White House said. “At President Biden’s direction, we will be announcing a major sanctions package on Friday of this week [&...
•Guinea junta Guinea’s junta has ordered government members’ passports to be seized and their bank accounts frozen after dissolving the administration for unknown reasons. The military, who took power in a September 2021 coup, yesterday decreed the dissolution of the government, which has been in office since July 2022, reports AFP. The junta ...
•Candles and a photo of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny A host of European Union governments Monday summoned Russian diplomats following the prison death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands were among those saying yesterday they have had summoned diplomats from Russia...
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