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Sierra Leone given free run as Nigeria gives up on UN Security Council seat bid

Nigeria has decided to withdraw its bid for a non-permanent member seat on the UN Security Council for 2024-2025, leaving Sierra Leone alone in the running. [...]

Published on 14/12/2021 at 06:00 GMT

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Inner circles | Africa, Senegal
Macky Sall relies on top team of advisers to succeed as African Union chair

The Senegalese president, who is due to take over as chairman of the African Union in February, is relying on a select group of diplomats to organise his programme as head of the pan-African body.

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Inner circles | Ghana
Akufo-Addo spreads his diplomatic wings at the UN, ECOWAS and in Mali

As the serving ECOWAS president, Nana Akufo-Addo has been heavily involved in the series of crises which have affected the west African region over the last year or so. To handle the burning issues they have thrown up, as Ghana prepares to take up its seat on the UN Security Council, the Ghanaian head of state, himself a former foreign affairs minister, has been relying on a small group of loyal supporters and an extensive diplomatic network.

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President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, at the UN General Assembly in New York City, 20 September 2021.

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Incoming AU chair Macky Sall burnishes his international image

Two months before he takes over the chairmanship of the African Union, Senegalese president Macky Sall has stepped up his diplomatic activities on the world stage. Highlights include the recent G20 summit and the upcoming peace forums in Paris and Dakar.

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From Washington to Algiers, Paris manoeuvres behind the scenes to keep Wagner out of Mali

Discreetly but insistently, France is working with its Western and African partners to prevent the junta going into partnership with Russian paramilitary group Wagner. Meanwhile, ECOWAS, egged on by Macron, is considering slapping sanctions on Mali's new leaders.

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French foreign minister Yves Le Drian at the UN General Assembly on 23 September.

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Incoming AU chair Macky Sall burnishes his international image

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From Washington to Algiers, Paris manoeuvres behind the scenes to keep Wagner out of Mali

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Africa
Sierra Leone given free run as Nigeria gives up on UN Security Council seat bid

Inner circles | Africa, Senegal
Macky Sall relies on top team of advisers to succeed as African Union chair

Inner circles | Ghana
Akufo-Addo spreads his diplomatic wings at the UN, ECOWAS and in Mali

Senegal
Incoming AU chair Macky Sall burnishes his international image

Mali
From Washington to Algiers, Paris manoeuvres behind the scenes to keep Wagner out of Mali