Tensions rise as West African nations prepare to send troops to restore democracy in Niger

[ad_1] NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Tensions are escalating between Niger’s new military regime and the West African regional bloc that has ordered the deployment of troops to restore Niger’s flailing…

Local businesses in northern Nigeria feel the sting of regional sanctions against neighboring Niger

[ad_1] ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A decision by a bloc of West African nations to shut down their borders with Niger as a way of sanctioning its coup plotters is…

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

[ad_1] July 28-Aug. 3, 2023 War continued in Ukraine during a week in which a Soviet emblem was removed from the shield of the Motherland Monument in Kyiv. In Moscow,…

Niger crisis deepens as European nations evacuate and coup leaders get support from other juntas

[ad_1] NIAMEY, Niger — A French military transport plane carrying Europeans departed Niger on Tuesday in the first such evacuation flight since mutinous soldiers ousted the country’s democratically elected president…

No breakthrough in NATO-Turkey talks about Sweden joining

[ad_1] NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says representatives from Turkey and Sweden will meet in just over a week to try to bridge their differences about the Nordic country joining the…