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Nigeria: Recognize 'Enormous Challenges' Facing Borno to Forge New Hope, Guterres Urges
UN News, 4 May 2022
The "enormous challenges" faced by the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, which include a continuing terrorist insurgency, need to be recognized by the international community… Read more »
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Nigeria: The Borno I Found Today Is One of Hope - Guterres
This Day, 4 May 2022
Secretary-General of United Nations, Antonio Guterres, yesterday, said Borno State, the hotbed of Boko Haram, has begun to wear a new look and new hope. Read more »
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Nigeria: UN Secretary-General Makes First Visit to Nigeria
VOA, 3 May 2022
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, at the start of a two-day visit to Nigeria, is in northeast Borno state, where the country has been struggling in its fight against… Read more »
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Niger: UN Chief Pledges to Be Voice for the Displaced
UN News, 3 May 2022
Rows of temporary shelters covered in sheeting which has been blanched by the sun and sand blasted by winds blend into the grey, dusty and parched environment. It's midday, and… Read more »
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West Africa: UN Chief Guterres Urges West African Juntas to Return to Civilian Rule
RFI, 2 May 2022
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged the military juntas in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali to hand power back to civilian rule as soon as possible. He also… Read more »
UN Chief Urges West African Juntas to Return to Civilian Rule
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged the military juntas in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali to hand power back to civilian rule as soon as possible. He also reminded the world to deliver on "climate emergency" promises.
All three countries, struggling with a jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region, have recently experienced military coups: Mali in August 2020 and May 2021; Guinea in September 2021; and Burkina Faso in January 2022.
Speaking after meeting Senegalese President Macky Sall in Dakar on May 1, 2022 Guterres said they had agreed on the need to keep talking to the de facto authorities in all three countries so as to get a swift return to "constitutional order".
The number of militia attacks in the Sahel region of Africa "continues to increase" according to Guterres, who arrived in Niamey, the capital of Niger, on May 2. Niger is the second of three countries he is visiting on a tour of West Africa, to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, speaks to displaced women in Ouallam in Niger, May 3, 2022.
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Niger: Guterres Calls for More Resources to Fight Terror Attacks in Africa's Sahel
UN News, 2 May 2022
The number of terrorist attacks in the Sahel region of Africa "continues to increase" according to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who arrived in the capital of… Read more »
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Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the head of Guinea's military junta, has said he has opted for a 39-month transitional period before a return to civilian rule. The announcement ... Read more »
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Militants in Mali say they have captured at least one Russian mercenary from the Wagner Group, a private military company with alleged links to Russian President Vladimir Putin. ... Read more »
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The Burkinabè government has responded to concerns raised at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) heads of state summit held in Accra on March 25, 2022. ... Read more »
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Burkina Faso has seen an upsurge in violence after a period of relative calm following a military junta takeover on January 24, 2022. Lieute Read more »
