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"Not a dose, not an ampoule, has left a European factory for Africa," said the African Union's special envoy tasked with procuring COVID-19 vaccines for the continent, and criticizing Europe heavily as Africa struggles in the midst of a crushing third flood of infection. Strive Masiyiwa on Thursday also aimed at the global effort aimed at distributing vaccines to low- and middle-income countries and accused COVAX of withholding important information including key donors' failure to meet funding…

A new commission of inquiry into the Tigray region by an African Union organization must "cease immediately", the Ethiopian government said. The Tigray region has been locked in a deadly conflict, which has led to warnings of famine and "ethnic cleansing". A statement from Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday criticized the independent inquiry as "misleading" and lacked a legal basis and instead proposed a common probe. But members of the new commission, created under the African Commission on…

Coups that are increasingly tolerated by the African Union, the sub-regional organizations and some African friends, it will be necessary to stop putting their authors in the position of having to account. Emmanuel Macron, who announced the end of Operation Barkhane, says France does not need to replace African states forever.…

The Malian leader of a coup last August, Colonel Assimi Goita, who has overthrown two presidents in the past nine months, swore in as interim president of the chronically unstable Sahel state on Monday after the country's second nine-month coup. The ceremony in the capital Bamako came after Goita fired the civilian president and prime minister of a transitional government on May 24 to international condemnation. "I swear before God and the Malian people to preserve the Republican regime ... to preserve…

The African Union (AU) announced that it was suspending Mali with immediate effect and threatening the poor country with sanctions after a second military coup in nine months. The coup has raised deep concerns about stability in the volatile Sahel region and warnings of financial sanctions from the entire international community. The AU "decides ... to immediately suspend the Republic of Mali from participating in all activities of the African Union, its bodies and institutions, until the normal…

Following ECOWAS, the African Union decided to suspend Mali from its governing bodies. But the continental organization has not made any other decision to punish Mali's new leader as the country awaits the appointment of the new prime minister. Soldiers must "go back to their barracks." The term had already been used after the…

The leaders of the military junta, which took power for the first time in August 2020, have just renewed themselves. Their leader, Assimi Goïta, told foreign mediators who came to see him on Wednesday, May 26, that he himself took matters into his own hands at the moment after the departure of Bah N'Daws and Moctar Ouane. What is its room for maneuver vis-à-vis the Malian political class and the…

President Bah N'Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane resigned on Wednesday, May 26, are not in favor of international mediation, led by ECOWAS, which has already mentioned possible sanctions. Everything goes very fast. No decision has been announced yet, but sanctions can be adopted quickly. Penalties have been swung since…

President Bah Ndaw and Malia's Prime Minister have resigned. The Trojan delegation, made up of representatives of ECOWAS, the African Union and the United Nations, was in Kati, where they had been since they were arrested on Monday 24 May to meet them. as reported from Bamako, Serge DanielPresident Bah Ndaw and Malia's Prime…

Mali plunged back into crisis on Monday after the military arrested the country's president, prime minister and defense minister after a government reshuffle earlier in the day, which sparked widespread international condemnation and calls for immediate release. The arrests sparked fears of a second coup as President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane lead a caretaker government that was installed following a coup in August under the threat of regional sanctions. Coup leaders and army officers…