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Liberian President George Weah at UN headquarters in New York on 20 September 2023.
Liberian President George Weah at UN headquarters in New York on 20 September 2023. © Leonardo Munoz / AFP

Spotlight | Guinea, Liberia
George Weah irks Washington and Robert Friedland with mine transfers to ArcelorMittal

Liberia has withdrawn licences from mining firms without informing them. Solway Mining, which was about to launch its iron ore project, has lost its asset to ArcelorMittal, which is strengthening its grip on iron ore production and its rail line monopoly to the detriment of Robert Friedland's US company HPX.
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Burnt cars in front of the headquarters of the Parti nigérien pour la démocratie et le socialisme (Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism) of the deposed president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, in Niamey on 19 September 2023.
Burnt cars in front of the headquarters of the Parti nigérien pour la démocratie et le socialisme (Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism) of the deposed president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, in Niamey on 19 September 2023. © AFP

Niger
How Bazoum's inner circle deprived junta of telecoms surveillance system

The deactivation of an interception and geolocation platform by the president's loyalists in the days following the July putsch is one of the many grievances the ruling junta holds against deposed leader Mohamed Bazoum.
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