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Sudan
Sudan war escalates as paramilitary forces aim for complete control of Darfur
...In recent weeks, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemeti, have seized Nyala, Sudan’s second-largest city, and most of the five federal states comprising...
November 12, 2023
Economic Community of West African States
Ecowas fails to persuade Niger junta to release former leader
...The failure to secure Mohamed Bazoum’s immediate release in return for the lifting of sanctions this weekend is a sign of the weakness of the Economic Community of West African States, which had originally...
February 26, 2024
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Sudan
US begins push to end war between two ‘bad actors’ in Sudan
...The United Arab Emirates, which fears the SAF is allied with the Islamists who ran the country for decades under dictator Omar al-Bashir, is backing Hemeti, he said....
February 28, 2024
Niger
Niger ends military co-operation agreement with US
...Under the leadership of General Omar Tchiani, Niger has cut ties with former colonial power France, ordering the departure of 1,500 French troops and expelling the French ambassador....
March 17, 2024
Niger
Niger junta rejects transition plan as 29 soldiers are killed in insurgent attack
...General Omar Tchiani, the head of Bazoum’s presidential guard, leads Niger alongside the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP)....
October 3, 2023
Niger
Niger junta threatens treason charge against ousted president Mohamed Bazoum
...The pro-western leader has been in detention with his wife and son since he was ousted on July 26 by mutinous soldiers led by General Omar Tchiani, head of the presidential guard....
August 14, 2023
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News in-depthNiger
President’s hostage misery brings home personal cost of Niger coup
...The coup that deposed Niger’s president Mohamed Bazoum sent ripples from Abuja to Washington and unnerved regional leaders to such an extent that they threatened to invade....
August 12, 2023
Niger
Niger closes airspace as regional deadline to reinstate president expires
...Omar Tchiani, the head of the presidential guard, declared himself as the country’s leader....
August 7, 2023
News in-depthNiger
‘Last domino to fall’: Niger upheaval extends ‘coup belt’ across Sahel
...In 2021, Mohamed Bazoum, a mild-mannered former school teacher, was elected president, cementing the country’s first democratic transition since independence from France in 1960....
July 28, 2023
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Head of Niger’s presidential guard named new president following coup
...On Wednesday, the 62-year-old, who goes by the name of Omar, led a revolt by barricading President Mohamed Bazoum into his residence and demanding his resignation....
July 28, 2023
Niger
Junta supporters rally in Niger as Ecowas deadline looms
...Gen Mohamed Toumba, one of the leaders of last month’s coup, told the crowd that people were “plotting subversion” against the “march forward”....
August 6, 2023
Niger
West African leaders put military forces on ‘standby’ over Niger coup
...The junta, led by General Omar Tchiani who previously ran Bazoum’s presidential guard, has spurned diplomatic efforts to seek a solution to the unfolding crisis....
August 10, 2023
Niger
Niger army backs coup against pro-western leader to prevent ‘bloodbath’
...General Abdou Sidikou Issa, the chief of staff, said the army had decided to endorse the coup against President Mohamed Bazoum “to avoid a deadly confrontation between the various forces and a consequent...
July 27, 2023
News in-depthSudan
‘No elected democrat has lasted’: warring generals plunge Sudan into fresh bloodshed
...“Corpses have been dumped in the streets and the fighting is making it very difficult to retrieve them,” said Maysoon Abdallah, a doctor who co-ordinates emergency rooms in Khartoum....
April 23, 2023
News in-depthNiger
Niger capital gripped by uncertainty as invasion deadline draws closer
...But nor does he agree with the threatened intervention to restore the deposed Mohamed Bazoum by Niger’s West African neighbours who have already watched governments in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso fall...
August 4, 2023
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Niger
US signals intention to engage with Niger junta
...France does not recognise the military-led government, the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, but regards close ally and former president Mohamed Bazoum as the legitimate elected leader....
October 22, 2023
African politics
Ecowas finalises plans for military intervention in Niger
...The junta, led by General Omar Tchiani, leader of Bazoum’s presidential guard, has already defied Ecowas’s August 6 deadline to restore constitutional order....
August 18, 2023
Israel-Hamas war
Israeli military raids Gaza’s largest hospital in climax of siege
...Omar Zaqout, al-Shifa’s emergency supervisor, said soldiers had questioned some displaced people and taken them “tied up and blindfolded” to “unknown locations”....
November 16, 2023
News in-depthSudan
Sudan conflict pitches military leaders into struggle for control
...Both men had emerged as leaders of the transitional government after a 2019 coup that ousted Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled over the country as a dictator for 30 years....
April 17, 2023
Sudan
‘The garden of war’: horseback killers return to Darfur
...The spark has been conflict in Khartoum that has pitted forces led by Sudan’s de facto president and army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against the paramilitary RSF of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo...
June 1, 2023
Niger
Blinken backs West African efforts to restore Niger’s constitutional order
...Niger’s democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum was deposed last month by the head of his own presidential guard, General Omar Tchiani, the latest coup in a volatile region that removed one of its...
August 8, 2023
Niger
Regional heads threaten Niger coup leaders with military intervention
...In reality, the person said, there were deep divisions within the putschists, many of whom had resisted the decision to name Omar Tchiani, head of the presidential guard, as Niger’s new leader....
July 30, 2023
Person in the News
Hemeti, the Sudanese general fighting for absolute control
...The man with whom he has in effect jointly ruled Sudan since the two combined in 2019 to overthrow the 30-year dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir was the “devil’s messenger”, he said....
April 21, 2023
InterviewSudan
Sudan’s warring generals: rival strongmen signal fight to the end
...Burhan and Hemeti are one-time allies who joined forces in 2019 to oust Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled the country for 30 years....
April 20, 2023
Sudan
Fighting in Sudan leaves almost 100 civilians dead
...The first talks started in 2019, after dictator Omar al-Bashir was ousted following 30 years in power....
April 17, 2023

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