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Niger Junta Suspends Nine French Media Outlets in Escalating Media Crackdown

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Niger’s military-controlled regulator, the National Communication Observatory (ONC), has ordered the immediate suspension of nine France-based media organisations, in what press freedom groups are calling one of the most sweeping media crackdowns in recent African history. The affected outlets include some of the most recognisable names in international journalism: AFP news agency, France 24, Radio […]

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France’s Sahel Retreat Opens Door for Islamists — Togo Is Now on the Front Line

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The void left by France’s military withdrawal from the Sahel has filled with something far more dangerous than a strategic vacuum — it has filled with armed men. Three years after Paris began winding down its counter-terrorism operations across Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, the ideological and operational space once held by French forces has

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Mali Under Russia’s Africa Corps: How Moscow’s Military Footprint Became Indispensable — and What It Costs

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Bamako | April 15, 2026 When Mali’s military junta formally ended its security partnership with France in 2022 and expelled French troops, it set in motion one of the most consequential realignments in modern African security politics. The successor arrangement — a deepening relationship with Russia’s Africa Corps — has transformed the military landscape of

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South Africa Disinvited from G7 Summit in Shock Diplomatic Snub

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South Africa has been uninvited from the G7 summit scheduled to take place in France, in a move that has sent shockwaves through African diplomatic circles and ignited a fierce debate about the treatment of the continent at the world’s most powerful tables. A Sudden and Unprecedented Decision The disinvitation, confirmed by the Élysée Palace

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