By Cooper Inveen Sierra Leone’s leadership announced a nationwide curfew on Wednesday in response to violent anti-government protests that it said had caused an unspecified number of deaths, including among the security forces. The West African country, which has been struggling with rising inflation and a fuel crisis, imposed the[Read More…]
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Nigeria Threatening To Quit Ecowas?
Since the mid 1970s the West African grouping Ecowas and Nigeria were seen as inseparables but of late the regional powerhouse is threatening to quit the bloc it helped found in 1975 to promote economic integration. Why? According to reports from the bloc’s headquarters based in the Nigerian federal capital[Read More…]
Flooding Kills At Least One In Senegal’s Capital
At least one person was killed and one severely wounded after torrential rain caused intense flooding in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Friday, a police officer said. Unusually heavy downpours hit the city for the second time in less than a month, sending brown, knee-deep water gushing down streets and grid-locking[Read More…]
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