Soldiers who staged a military coup in Mali leading to the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and his government said, on Wednesday, they plan to form a civilian transitional government that will organise fresh elections. Keita resigned and dissolved parliament late on Tuesday, hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests, deeper into crisis. In a statement broadcast on state-owned television early on...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday evening returned from Bamako, Mali, after many hours of consultations and closed-door meetings meant to mitigate the political crisis in that country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was attended by the host President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita; Presidents Machy Sall of Senegal, Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana and  Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire. A resistance group, M5, is insisting that the Constitutional Court must be dissolved, and...

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has ordered the government of Togo to pay 16 million CFA Francs as compensation for shutting down the internet twice in 2017. A statement issued by the court on Friday said that the panel of three Justices found that shutting the internet violated the rights of the plaintiffs to freedom of expression. On the three-member panel of the court were Honourable Justices Gberi-Be Ouattara (presiding) and Dupe Atoki. By...