The military government of Niger on Sunday claimed France is positioning troops in surrounding countries and preparing an invasion to reverse the coup that forced President Mohamed Bazoum out of power in July.
An American NGO has demanded that British universities are refused permission to return artefacts taken from African states that “profited from slavery”.
Germany is returning hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes that were mostly looted from West Africa by a British expedition.
Two supposed Benin Bronzes being “returned” to Africa by the woke Archbishop of Canterbury were actually made in the 1980s and have no link to colonialism, it has been admitted.
Pirates have kidnapped nine crew members after hijacking a Norwegian cargo ship off the coast of the West African country of Benin.
The U.S.-backed Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) fighting jihadis in the Lake Chad Basin counties over the weekend repudiated a video by the Islamic State-West African Province (ISWAP) released late last month and purportedly showing the execution of nine Nigerian troops as well as the seizure of personnel and their heavy weapons.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday defended a military operation to free hostages held in Burkina Faso that left two French special forces officers dead.
