Mali has said it “will not stand idly by” if foreign governments intervene in neighouring Niger, Bamako’s top diplomat warned the United Nations on Saturday, after both countries’ juntas joined a mutual defence pact. Rebel elite soldiers overthrew Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and ...

By Tony Nwankwo, Henry Umoru & Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo The Senate and the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, have asked the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, and President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, and other leaders ...