Category: ECOWAS
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🇱🇷 As cocoa production in Liberia fosters mass deforestation, campaigners urge Europe to act
Producing cocoa takes a major toll on the environment. Farmers will often clear tropical forests to plant new trees, causing significant environmental damage. A new investigation from The Initiatives for Community Development and Forest (IDEF) Conservation Association, an Ivorian nonprofit organisation, demonstrates the wide scale of such deforestation in Liberia. The report is urging the…
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🇬🇭Ghana’s President Mahama at the UN: From Aid Recipient to Agenda Setter for a New Global Order
A New African Assertiveness at the UN In a powerful address at the 80th United Nations General Assembly, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama articulated a vision that marks a significant shift in Africa’s diplomatic posture. Moving beyond requests for aid, his speech was a bold demand for structural parity in global governance, grounded in Africa’s…
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🇬🇭 US deportees sue Ghana over ‘illegal’ detention
Eleven people detained in Ghana after being deported from the US have sued the West African nation’s government, their lawyer has told the BBC. Oliver-Barker Vormawor said the deportees had not violated any Ghanaian law, and their detention in a military camp was therefore illegal. He wanted the government to produce the group in court,…
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🇺🇸🇨🇲 US Arrests Leaders of Cameroon Separatist Movement
A federal grand jury in Minnesota has indicted two US citizens of Cameroonian origin for financing and coordinating attacks by the Ambazonia Defense Forces (ADF), a separatist group active in Cameroon. According to the indictment, Benedict Nwana Kua and Pascal Kikishi Wongbi sent thousands of dollars to associates in Cameroon to purchase weapons and explosives…
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🇨🇮 Cote d’Ivoire: Tidjane Thiam’s Presidential Bid Blocked as UN Declines to Intervene
Tidjane Thiam, former Credit Suisse CEO and leading opposition figure in Cote d’Ivoire, will be unable to run in the October 25 presidential election after the United Nations Human Rights Committee declined to support his appeal to be reinstated on the country’s electoral roll. Thiam had challenged an Ivorian court’s decision to exclude him, which…
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Drug War in Crisis: Leaked Audio Exposes Top Official Allegedly Protecting Daughter and Dealers
“How can Liberia win the fight against drugs if those leading the battle are accused of protecting the very trade they’re meant to stop?” In a devastating blow to Liberia’s fight against a devastating drug epidemic, a leaked audio recording has exposed the Chief of Operations of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA), Abraham Okai…
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🇱🇷 CDC Headquarters Demolished: Liberia’s Political Tension Erupts in Court-Ordered Eviction
The demolition of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) headquarters in Monrovia on August 23, 2025, represents a significant escalation in Liberia’s political tensions. This event pits the ruling Unity Party government against the main opposition party in a dramatic confrontation over property rights, judicial authority, and political space. The Dawn Operation In the early…
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🇬🇲 Yahya Jammeh in 2025: Exile, Prosecutions, and the Fight for Justice
1. ECOWAS Approves Special Tribunal for Jammeh-Era Crimes 2. Ongoing Investigations into Asset Sales 3. Legal Convictions of Jammeh Associates 4. International Prosecutions 5. Jammeh’s Exile and Political Legacy Key Pending Developments:
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ECOWAS’ new president, Julius Maada Bio, reiterates wish for Sahel states to return to the fold
As he continues his West Africa tour, Sierre Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio, has reiterated his wish that the Alliance of Sahel States will rejoin regional body, ECOWAS. Maada Bio took the rotating presidency of the Economic Community of West African States in June and says he hopes the good relations he has with Mali,…
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🇳🇬 Nigeria: Tinubu Consolidates Power Amid Rising Internal Frictions
After two years of painful economic reforms, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu is steadily preparing for the 2027 elections. His party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), retains dominance in parliament and most states. In Lagos and Abuja, “door-to-door” campaign banners already promote the president’s re-election bid. The July death of former President Muhammadu Buhari and the…
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