[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…
Tag: Coups d'etat
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…