“The president promised water and electricity. But since then, we’ve seen nothing,” she said last week, surrounded by withered plants in her parched compound.
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“We are not really surprised about the latest escalation because it follows a pattern of repression and hostility against the media generally, and in particular foreign media,” said Muheeb Saeed, manager of the freedom of expression program at the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
Control of the sprawling site, which can accommodate as many as 4,000 miners, has changed hands several times in recent years, as violent extremists associated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have fought civilians, government forces and each other for a share of the spoils.
“I am not guilty”, he declared Saturday, saying he would divulge documents in the coming days to “reveal the truth.”
Kainerugaba, 48, a general in the military, is widely seen as his father’s successor in waiting and once stirred controversy by threatening to invade neighboring Kenya.
Back home in Senegal, his wife Mariatou Mbodj misses her husband. She can’t find work as a fish processor, and she and Ndour’s three children wait anxiously in Bargny, on the coast south of the capital Dakar, for news of his progress in getting legalised in Spain.
“The US presence on the territory of the Republic of Niger is illegal and violates all the constitutional and democratic rules which would require the sovereign people… to be consulted on the installation of a foreign army on its territory,” Niger’s military spokesperson Col Amadou Abdramane said in a damning statement on national television.
“The Authority granted a Transit Permit to a trader, Sydney Zambwe, to transport about 34 metric tonnes of the meal. The truck was cleared at the Kazungula border and was en route to Kasumbalesa when the unfortunate incident happened.
The Director-General of West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), Dr Olorunsola Olowofeso, says the expectation for an ECOWAS Single Currency by…
The military regimes in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic Niger, have agreed to set up a joint force to…