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Gen. James Hecker stressed there has been no decision from the Biden administration as to whether the Niger military’s July 26 coup requires evacuation.

The delegation led by former Nigerian president Abdulsalami Abubakar flew into the capital early afternoon on Saturday, a day after Ecowas military chiefs announced they were ready to intervene to reinstate…

President Mohamed Bazoum had grown alarmed at military takeovers sweeping across Niger’s neighbors. Then his own soldiers came for him. Weeks later, he remains imprisoned in his home.

An ECOWAS spokesman warned, “If push comes to shove we are going into Niger with our own contingents and equipment and our own resources to make sure we restore constitutional order.” In a veiled reference to the US, Fance and other imperialist powers, he added, “If other democratic partners want to support us they are welcome.”

West African regional leaders continued meeting for a second day Friday to decide the make-up of a military force with the potential to intervene in coup-hit Niger. The country's junta has ignored an…

The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility it has to evacuate its personnel and equipment from Niger due to the security threat that could upend U.S. operations in the region.

The European ruling class is at war with the mass of humanity deprived of the most basic conditions of life by imperialist violence and capitalist inequality.

UN agencies emphasise that the situation is spiraling out of control, imploring for a swift cessation of hostilities and an immediate international response.

Military commanders from several West African countries are meeting Thursday in Ghana to coordinate a possible intervention to reverse the c

Despite being presented as the representative of the “extreme left” by the bourgeois press, Mélenchon made clear in remarks following last month’s police crackdown that he is an experienced capitalist politician who works to suppress the working class’ struggle against the capitalist state.