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Hundreds of Congolese police officers join the M23 movement in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the rebel group consolidates its control of the city. Around 1,800 police officers have surrendered their weapons to the new authorities, according to the Congo River Alliance .
ABUJA/NIAMEY (Reuters) -West African defence chiefs have drawn up a plan for military action if Niger's coup is not overturned by Sunday, the regional bloc said on Friday, after mediation failed ...
13 June – Six soldiers are killed in an attack on the Niger–Benin Oil Pipeline between the villages of Salkam and Tibiri, in Dosso region. [6]14 June – The State Security Court retracts the immunity of deposed president Mohamed Bazoum, opening him up to be prosecuted for high treason and undermining national security.
In 2019, at the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed on a revitalization of the steel mill with Russian support. A taskforce within the Nigerian government was set up with a view to revamping the project with funding from the Afreximbank and the Russian Export Center.
Despite Niger’s status as one of the poorest countries in the world, it is a major global supplier of natural uranium. Pro-junta demonstrators set the French Embassy in Niamey on fire on Sunday ...
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Nigeria has several deposits of iron ore, but the purest deposits are in and around Itakpe in Kogi State. [9] [10] The National Iron Ore Mining Company was founded in 1979 and given the mission to explore, exploit, process, and supply iron ore concentrate to the Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASCL) in Ajaokuta and Delta Steel Company (DCL) in Aladja ...
At least 29 Niger soldiers were killed in an ambush by insurgents near the country's border with Mali, the defence ministry said, the deadliest attack since the military seized power in a coup in ...