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Jihadists wage string of attacks on Mali military sites
Modern Ghana
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Jihadists waged attacks on military installations in several western Mali towns Tuesday, in a new series of assaults in the junta-led country amid resurging violence in the wider Sahel region. For more than a decade Mali has faced assaults from...
France hands over 4th military site to Senegal
Xinhua News Agency
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DAKAR, July 1 (Xinhua) -- France has transferred control of a fourth military site to Senegal, the French Embassy in Dakar has announced in a statement. The statement said that on Tuesday, France officially handed over the Inter-Armed Transmission...
Russian Info Ops; Attritional Battles in Sudan: Africa File, July 17, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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To receive the weekly Africa File or tri-weekly Congo War Security Review via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on X, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. Contributors: Calvin Hodges and Ellery White Key Takeaways: Russia. The Kremlin will likely take...
Jihadists attack string of Mali military sites
Modern Ghana
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Jihadists attacked military installations in several towns in western Mali early Tuesday, in a new series of assaults in the junta-led country amid resurging violence in the wider Sahel region. For more than a decade Mali has faced assaults from...
Suspected Terrorists in Mali Attack Military Sites
News Central TV
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July 1, 2025
Suspected terrorists launched attacks on multiple military sites across Mali early Tuesday, including an assault on an army camp in the western city of Kayes, according to the military and local residents, as the country grapples with a surge in...
Suspected jihadists attack string of Mali military sites
Modern Ghana
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Suspected jihadists attacked military installations in several towns in western Mali early Tuesday, the military and residents said, in a new series of attacks in the junta-led country amid resurging violence in the wider Sahel region. For more...
President Bio of Sierra Leone elected new ECOWAS Chairman
Ghana News Agency
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June 23, 2025
By Iddi Yire Accra, June 23, GNA – Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio was on Sunday elected Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government. He was elected the 67th Ordinary...
Mali government takes over abandoned Yatela and Morila gold mines
Yahoo Finance
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Mali's government has completed the nationalisation of the Yatela and Morila gold mines, previously abandoned by their owners, in an effort to regain control of its natural resources, as reported by Reuters. Despite being Africa's second-largest...
President Tinubu Hosts ECOWAS Leaders As 67th Summit Opens In Abuja
Lagos Post Online
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June 22, 2025
President Bola Tinubu received West African leaders on Sunday at the 67th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The event took place at the Banquet Hall of the...
Group to Governors: Account for security votes spending, invite EFCC, ICPC
Eagle Online
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June 29, 2025
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to Nigeria’s 36 state governors urging them to “promptly account for the spending of public funds in the name of ‘security votes’ by your...
Account for security votes spending, invite EFCC, ICPC’, SERAP tells 36 governors
News Diary Online
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July 1, 2025
‘ Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to Nigeria’s 36 state governors urging them to “promptly account for the spending of public funds in the name of ‘security votes’ by your...
Government to pilot 50 Farmer Service Centres in first year
Ghana News Agency
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June 22, 2025
By Anthony Adongo Apubeo Bolgatanga, June 22, GNA – The government is set to pilot 50 Farmer Service Centres across selected districts in the country in the first year of implementing its flagship Feed Ghana programme under the Agriculture for...
Morality binds and blinds: Applying Haidt’s framework to NPP’s political psychology – Part 1
Daily FT
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The NPP’s shift under AKD is not just ideological, but psychological: a move from reform to ritual The NPP’s shift under AKD reveals not just a political turn, but a moral one. Haidt’s insights show how movements bound by sacred values can become...
Military junta not needed for Nigeria’s transformation – Leslie
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 22, 2025
Dr Rachel Leslie, a prominent Pan-African scholar, has said that Nigeria possesses enough natural and human resources to transform itself without resorting to military rule, urging the country to embrace visionary civilian leadership instead....
French army leaves Senegal, ending military presence in west Africa
Yahoo News
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France on Thursday formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent army camps in either west or central Africa. Ending the French army's 65 years in independent Senegal, the pull-out comes after similar...
President Erdoğan receives Grand Youth Award from top OIC body
Daily Sabah
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June 22, 2025
Grand Youth Award of Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF), an affiliate of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) based in Istanbul, was presented to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Friday. Erdoğan received the award at a ceremony held at...
Togo’s political crisis risks spilling over into West Africa – Security Analyst warns
Joy FM
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June 30, 2025
Since August, Togo's opposition has organised regular protests against demanding the departure of embattled President Faure Gnassingbe, whose family has ruled this west African nation for five decades. By MATTEO FRASCHINI KOFFI (AFP/File) Togo’s...
In FOI requests, SERAP tells governors to account for security votes
Premium Times
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June 29, 2025
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to Nigeria’s 36 state governors urging them to “promptly account for the spending of public funds in the name of ‘security votes’ by your...
Nigeria’s Leadership Crisis
Kpomkwem News
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July 16, 2025
Nigeria’s Leadership Crisis:Why we need statesmen and not politicians In a nation where trust has become an endangered value, where politics often reeks of rot in the heart of citizens and where public offices have been reduced to empires of...
Insecurity: SERAP Gives 36 State Governors Seven Days To Account For Security Votes
The Will
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June 29, (THEWILL) — The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigeria’s 36 state governors to within seven days, “promptly account for the spending of public funds in the name of security votes” since 29th May 2023...