Category: ECOWAS
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🇬🇲 The Exile’s Shadow: Yahya Jammeh’s Long Game and The Gambia’s Unfinished Reckoning
KANILAI, THE GAMBIA – In October 2025, the crackle of a WhatsApp audio message, relayed through loudspeakers in a village, sent political shockwaves through this small West African nation. From his exile haven over 3,000 kilometers away, former dictator Yahya Jammeh declared to hundreds of cheering supporters: “Nobody can prevent me from coming in. I…
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🇬🇼🇸🇳 Flight with a Coup
The ousted president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has appeared in Senegal. He left the country following a military coup that took place in Bissau on November 26. This was reported by sources in diplomatic circles in Dakar, and the information was later confirmed by the administration of Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. According to…
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🇳🇬 Wike vs. The Navy: Abuja Land Clash Exposes Fissures Between Power and Uniform
A fiery public confrontation between Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, and a senior naval officer has erupted into a national sensation, laying bare simmering tensions over land, authority, and the reach of civil power in the heart of the nation’s capital. The incident, which was captured on video and quickly went viral…
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🇸🇱🇷🇺 Russian deputy foreign minister discusses reopening of Russia’s embassy with Sierra Leone’s ambassador
Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Vershinin has discussed with Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Mohamed Yongawo the upcoming reopening of the Russian Embassy in the African country, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported. 🔸During their meeting in Moscow on 10 November, the parties noted that the resumption of the embassy’s work would contribute to the effective advancement…
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🇳🇬🇺🇸Tinubu Set for High-Stakes White House Meeting with Donald Trump
Abuja, Nigeria – Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is scheduled to meet with former U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days, a move that signals a potential strategic shift in international relations and highlights the pressing issue of religiously-motivated violence in West Africa. The announcement was made by Special Advisor Daniel Bwala via the…
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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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