West Africa threatens force on Niger coup leaders, French embassy attacked
NIamey, Niger/Abuja, NigeriaReuters West African nations imposed sanctions and threatened force on Sunday if Niger’s coup leaders fail to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum within a week, while supporters of the junta attacked the French embassy in Niamey. The 15-nation ECOWAS bloc’s response to the Sahel region’s seventh coup of recent years came as crowds […]
French embassy asks Burkina Faso for more protection after protests
Ouagadougou, Burkna FasoReuters The French embassy in Burkina Faso has asked the West African state for more protection after violent protests targeted the property last week, a letter to the government and a diplomatic source said. In a letter to Burkina Faso’s foreign ministry seen by Reuters, the French embassy said Burkina Faso’s military police […]
Gunfire, confusion grip Burkina Faso day after coup, fire breaks out at French embassy
OuaGadougou, Burkina Faso Reuters Gunfire rang out across Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday and fire broke out at the French embassy as self-declared leader Ibrahim Traore accused President Paul-Henri Damiba of staging a counter-offensive after his apparent ouster a day earlier. The standoff signals deep division within the army and a worrying new chapter for […]
France returns marble angels stolen from Italian church in ’89
Rome, ItayAP A British art collector who bought a pair of 17th-century marble angels from a Neapolitan antiques shop two decades ago has returned the winged “putti” to Italy’s art police after learning that they had been stolen from a church. Italy’s carabinieri art police said the unnamed collector had tried to resell the angels […]