Nigeria’s minister of power pleaded with the Egyptian ambassador to help resolve the country’s electricity quagmire.
The convict scammed one of his victims, a recently widowed 68 years old, into sending him over $300,000, computer, wristwatch and clothes.
Home to more than 1.2 billion people, so far, just two countries in Africa have reached the 40 per cent target, the lowest of any region.
The 2018 Nobel Prize winner from DR Congo, Denis Mukwege, is the keynote speaker.
Junta boss Lt.-Col. Mamady Doumbouya has requested talks to form a transitional government, media reports from Conakry indicate.
ECOWAS commission president and foreign affairs ministers of Ghana and Burkina Faso are leading the delegation.
Morocco’s squad were flown out of Conakry on the night of the coup after negotiations between diplomats and soldiers, who had ordered the land and air borders closed.
RNI took 97 of the 395-seat parliament, followed by PAM with 82 seats and the conservative Istiqlal with 78 seats.
The regional bloc demanded the immediate restoration of civilian rule in Guinea, adding that the “defense and security forces should maintain a constitutional posture.”
