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KINSHASA (Reuters) -Congo police fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a protest by opposition supporters in the capital Kinshasa calling for a re-run of last week's chaotic presidential and legislative elections.

Cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast on Tuesday said they were optimistic about the October-to-March main crop despite two weeks without rain in most growing regions and an uptick in dry Harmattan winds in... -December 26, 2023 at 09:46 am EST - MarketScreener

Democratic Republic of Congo's government on Tuesday banned an opposition protest planned for Wednesday over last week's chaotic national election as early results showed President Felix Tshisekedi in the lead. Five opposition presidential candidates called the joint demonstration in the capital Kinshasa over alleged election irregularities. But on Tuesday the government banned the event, saying it did not have a legal basis and aimed at undermining the electoral process while the CE...

KINSHASA -Democratic Republic of Congos government on Tuesday banned an opposition protest planned for Wednesday over last weeks chaotic national election as early results showed President Felix... -December 26, 2023 at 11:23 am EST - MarketScreener

By Ange Kasongo and Sonia Rolley KINSHASA (Reuters) -Opposition candidates in Democratic Republic of Congos chaotic presidential election plan to march in ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - The last French troops deployed in Niger to help fight a decade-old Islamist insurgency in the Sahel left the country on Friday, sealing a withdrawal that has dealt a further blow to France's influence in West Africa. Army office...

Democratic Republic of Congo voters were waiting on Friday for the first results from presidential and legislative elections after an unscheduled day-long ballot extension that prompted some opposition candidates to cry foul and call for a rerun. The vote will determine whether President Felix Tshisekedi serves a second term after a first five years in office marked by economic hardship and spiralling insecurity in Congo's rebel-plagued east. Voting for some was extended into Thursday, pr...

The last French troops deployed in Niger to help fight a decade-old Islamist insurgency in the Sahel left the country on Friday, sealing a withdrawal that has dealt a further blow to France's influence in West Africa. Army officers who seized power in Niger in July made France's military exit one of their key demands, echoing juntas in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali who severed long-standing security ties with France after coups in 2020-2022. After initially pushing back, France&...

Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has dismissed Prime Minister Geraldo Martins just a week after his reappointment, according to a presidential decree issued on Wednesday, as the country navigates a political crisis. Embalo dissolved Guinea-Bissau's parliament days after what he said was a foiled coup on Dec. 1, accusing the government of passivity in response to the clashes. The decree did not provide a reason for sacking Martins, who is a member of the former ruling PA...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution starting to wind down its peacekeeping mission in the ...