Army

Mali asks France to pull out troops ‘without delay’

Bamako – Mali’s army-led government asked France on Friday to withdraw its troops from the Sahel state “without delay”, calling... Read more

19 Feb, 2022

Kinshasa – Democratic Republic of Congo president Felix Tshisekedi on Thursday lashed out at “cases of indiscipline” at all levels... Read more

18 Feb, 2022

Bamako – Mali’s strongman leader Colonel Assimi Goita has ordered a probe into social housing that was allegedly awarded to... Read more

16 Feb, 2022

Dakar – Separatist rebels in Casamance, a region of southern Senegal afflicted by a longstanding separatist conflict, are to free... Read more

14 Feb, 2022

Bissau – Guinea-Bissau’s president Umaro Sissoco Embalo on Thursday accused a former Guinean navy chief with links to the drug... Read more

11 Feb, 2022

Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso’s new armed forces chief, who was appointed last week following a military coup, on Wednesday vowed... Read more

9 Feb, 2022

Conakry – Guinea’s transitional assembly, which is tasked with organising a return to civilian rule after the military overthrow... Read more

6 Feb, 2022

Bissau – West Africa bloc Ecowas has announced it will send a “stabilising support force” to Guinea-Bissau, where an... Read more

5 Feb, 2022

Bissau – Bissau-Guinean President Umaru Sissoco Embalo urged people to “return to their duties” on Thursday, two days after an... Read more

4 Feb, 2022

Bissau – Six soldiers were killed during an attempted putsch Guinea-Bissau this week, an army official in the West African... Read more

3 Feb, 2022