Ibrahim Traore, army captain in Burkina Faso, has ousted Paul-Henri Damiba, the country’s military leader. Traore announced the development in a national broadcast on Friday evening. Earlier on Friday, TheCable had
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Two suspects of foreign nationality have been arrested by Interpol and the directorate for priority crime investigation (Hawks) in South Africa. Announcing the arrest in a statement, Katlego Mogale, Hawks
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has applied to fast-track the country’s membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Zelensky, who signed the NATO application papers on Friday, said the decision
Paul-Henri Damiba, Burkina Faso’s military president, says discussions are ongoing to restore calm following heavy gunfire that raised fears of a coup. Damiba said this in a statement via the
At least 19 people have been killed and 27 injured in a suicide bomb blast in Kabul, the capital of
Heavy gunfire has been heard from the main military base and some residential areas in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital. According
Security forces in Mozambique say lions and crocodiles have attacked insurgents in the country. According to the BBC, Bernardino Rafael,
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is expected to hold a signing ceremony to annex four regions in Ukraine. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s
Edward Snowden, a former US intelligence contractor, has been granted Russian citizenship. According to the BBC, Snowden was granted Russian
President Muhammadu Buhari says Africa has not been able to reach its full potential because of corruption. In a statement
