RT News - August 08 2023 (17:00 MSK)

Niger reportedly refuses to accept a trilateral mediation mission from the UN, the African Union and the ECOWAS grouping amid threats of military intervention. That's as neighboring Mali calls for outside powers not to intervene. As tensions heat-up in Africa, French senators send a joint letter to Emmanuel Macron questioning the president's policy on the continent. Today marks the 15th anniversary of the military conflict that erupted in 2008, when Georgia tried to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia.