Africa Archive

Ghana’s foreign affairs and regional integration minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has registered her displeasure at the coup d’état that erupted in Mali, describing the action as regrettable. Addressing participants at the extraordinary summit of ECOWAS heads of state and government on

Russian opposition leader and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was unconscious and on a ventilator in a Siberian hospital Thursday after falling ill from suspected poisoning, his spokesperson said.Navalny, 44, started feeling unwell while on a return flight to Moscow from

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned, after being detained by soldiers on Tuesday. In a televised address he said he was also dissolving the government and parliament, adding: “I want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power.”

Mali President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta has been arrested by mutinying soldiers, a government spokesman has confirmed to the BBC. Prime Minister Boubou Cissé has also been arrested, despite earlier appeals for “brotherly dialogue”. The apparent coup attempt in the West African

West African leaders are heading to Bamako on a high-stakes mission aimed at defusing Mali’s weeks-long political crisis that has raised concerns of further instability in a country grappling with multiple crises, including an escalating conflict. The visit on Thursday by