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NAIROBI, KENYA | TASS | Ukraine has opened its second front in Africa, struggling to defeat Russia on the battlefield, Moscow’s Ambassador to Mali and Niger Igor Gromyko told TASS. “Unable to defeat Russia on the battlefield, Vladimir Zelensky’s regime has decided to open a ‘second front’ in Africa, supporting …

  TRIPOLI | Xinhua |  Libya deported a group of migrants to Niger by land on Wednesday, the first such deportation in years, according to the Libyan Illegal Migration Control Department. The department said in a statement on its Facebook page that the deportation took place in the presence of …

RABAT, Morocco | TASS | Leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which are all members of the Sahel Alliance, reaffirmed that their decision to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is irreversible and immediate. “While reaffirming the irreversible and immediate nature of the Sahel Alliance states’ …

NIAMEY, Niger | Xinhua | The government of Niger, represented by Minister of Communication Sidi Mohamed Raliou, signed an agreement on Friday in the capital, Niamey, with Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, to acquire three satellites aimed at bolstering the nation’s security and defense capabilities. The deal …

RABAT, MORROCCO | TASS | Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger condemn the Ukrainian authorities’ open support for international terrorism, in particular in the Sahel region, according to a letter from the governments of the three African countries sent to the President of the UN Security Council. “The Foreign Ministers of …

HARARE, Zimbabwe | TASS | The current Kiev regime has turned Ukraine into the West’s terrorist mercenary to destabilize situation in Africa, Editor-in-Chief of Zimbabwe’s New Ziana News Agency Rangarirai Shoko told TASS. “Niger’s decision to sever relations with Kiev is quite understandable from a security and geostrategic point of …

NIAMEY, Niger | Xinhua | Niger will break off diplomatic ties with Ukraine “with immediate effect,” Amadou Abdramane, spokesman for the Niger military government, announced on national television on Tuesday. He said in a statement that the move was taken because of Kyiv’s “support for terrorist organizations,” and called the …

NIAMEY | Xinhua | Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced the creation of the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States during the institution’s first summit held here on Saturday, marking a significant step toward establishing an economic-military bloc and moving away from regional and Western countries following a …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | The Pentagon has confirmed that the United States will withdraw most of its troops stationed in the African countries of Chad and Niger. “Do we have to adjust sometimes based on the dynamics? Yes, we do,” U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown …

BAMAKO, MALI | Xinhua | Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are no longer members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), military officials of the three countries decided in a joint statement read this Sunday in the television news of Malian television (ORTM). On the Malian side, the …