Following a "coup attempt" on Tuesday night, authorities in Niger arrested military personnel, saying the situation was "under control," according to a security source.

At a time when the Movement for the Defence of Democracy (MDD), a group of opposition parties including Bastif, called for protests throughout Senegal for three days,

By / Abeer Almadawy-Bamako

 Media reported that guards of a merchant ship managed to thwart an attack by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea.