ECOWAS, the regional bloc promoting political and economic co-operation in West Africa, has condemned what it calls an "attempted coup" in Guinea-Bissau, and is urging the military to return to its barracks.
The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Burkina Faso from all ECOWAS institutions and demanded the immediate release and protection of the former President of Burkina Faso, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, and all the other political detainees.
Burkina Faso’s President Roch Kabore was detained and his government dissolved on Monday in a military coup, the latest in a string of recent takeovers, including those in Guinea, Chad, Mali and Sudan.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today, Friday, January 28, hold a virtual ECOWAS emergency summit to deliberate on the political situation in Burkina Faso.
The President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina and his wife Yemisi, have paid a condolence visit to Mrs Margaret Shonekan, the widow of the former Head of the Nigerian Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan.
The discovery of the decomposing body of five-year-old schoolgirl Hanifa Abubakar has triggered shock and outrage across Nigeria, where the hashtag #JusticeForHanifa is trending.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks in Geneva on Friday amid mounting fears that Russia could be about to invade Ukraine.
Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the scheme.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) has announced the launch of Etihad 7 at the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2022.
