Protesters Denounce Mali Government’s 5-Year Transition

Mali's military government proposed in December a 5-year extension of the transition to civilian rule, after originally agreeing to a period of 18 months. Protesters gathered Saturday in Bamako to call for a return to democracy, ahead of an ECOWAS meet...
Mauritania to release ex-president accused of graft

Mauritania to release ex-president accused of graft

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Mauritania’s judiciary said on Friday it would release corruption-accused former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on licence after he underwent a cardiac operation during several months under investigation. Abdel Aziz, 65, was admitted to hospital at the end of December for urgent care, according to his lawyers. At the start of the year he underwent a successful cardiac operation, according to his hospital. The prosecutor’s office subsequently asked that he be released and the judges in charge of the investigation agreed he would be placed under judicial and medical supervision at his home, t…

US Names New Horn of Africa Envoy

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday named career diplomat David Satterfield as the new special envoy to the troubled Horn of Africa.Satterfield, 67, who has experience in the Persian Gulf states, Lebanon and Iraq, most recently has serve...