JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police arrested 95 Libyan nationals in a raid on a suspected secret army coaching camp on Friday and authorities stated they have been investigating whether or not there have been extra unlawful bases in different elements of the nation. The camp was found at a farm in White River within…
The UN on Friday charged the 4 West African nations dominated by army juntas to transit again to democratic rule. Deputy Secretary Normal of the United Nations (UN), Amina Mohammed, who made the decision on the State Home, Abuja, after a gathering with President Bola Tinubu stated she and her staff had been in Abuja…
South African police say they’ve arrested 95 Libyan nationals on suspicion of receiving coaching at a secret army camp within the north of the nation By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Related Press July 26, 2024, 6:14 AM ET • 3 min learn JOHANNESBURG — South African police arrested 95 Libyan nationals in a raid on a suspected…
West Africa is now going through a whirlwind of navy takeovers. From Mali’s 2020 putsch to the current tremors in Niger, these coups have shattered the area’s political equilibrium. On one facet stand the navy juntas of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, every promising stability and sovereignty within the face of rumbling insurgencies and overseas influences. Opposing them are…
NICK EICHER, HOST: Developing subsequent on The World and Every little thing in It: WORLD Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Ohikere. AUDIO: [Music and cheers] West Africa army cut up — We begin in the present day’s roundup in West Africa the place three army leaders within the area formally launched an alliance….
Commander of america Africa Command (AFRICOM), Marine Corps Common Michael E. Langley, confirmed to the media on Thursday that he has travelled to coastal West African international locations, together with Ghana, following the withdrawal of U.S. navy forces from Niger. The U.S. troops have been stationed in Niger till Might this 12 months to watch…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is in search of new bases that US troops might use in West Africa as American particular operations forces withdraw from a key drone base in Niger forward of a Sept. 15 deadline beforehand agreed upon by the 2 governments. Washington’s top-ranking normal, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees…
Workers Basic Charles Q. Brown, Jr GABORONE– Air Power Basic C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, is making a uncommon go to to Africa to discover methods to keep up U.S. army presence in West Africa following Niger’s resolution to expel U.S. forces in favor of partnering with Russia, a big setback…
By Mamadou Faye BBC Information Afrique 6 November 2023 Picture supply, Getty Photographs With a wave of coups in former French colonies in Africa, France is discovering it may well now not take its navy position on the continent as a right. There have been rising protests towards France’s presence in Africa, the place it…
A report by the Moscow Occasions revealed that in the course of the go to of Russia’s International Minister; Sergei Lavrov to Burkina Faso, a choice was reached to extend the variety of its army instructors within the West African state. “Russian instructors work right here and their quantity will improve,” Lavrov mentioned at a…