Umaro Djau

Umaro Djau writes that the international community must act quickly to defend the rights of African slaves in Libya, whose dignity has been stripped from them by smugglers and thieves.

A Guinean military officer broadcast a statement Sunday announcing that Guinea’s Constitution has been dissolved in an apparent coup.

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló said an attempted military coup to overthrow him had failed on Tuesday, and called for calm across the country during a national address broadcast on Radio TV Bantaba.

Niger’s junta claimed Sunday it had gathered evidence to prosecute the country’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason,” upping the stakes in their brinkmanship against key neighbors in West Africa who have vowed to restore constitutional order in the coup-hit country.

Guinea’s ex-junta leader recaptured after prison break, defense ministry says