Tag: Coup

The former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been caught attempting to flee from custody in the wee night hours of ...

Wife of ousted Gabon President Ali Bongo Sylvia Bongo has been jailed for allegedly embezzling public funds. Her lawyer Francois ...

I don’t like the part of the continent they call West Africa. It’s hot with overcrowded, noisy, and unruly cities. ...

George Santayana is famously quoted for saying that ‘those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ...

The military in Niger that seized power from President Mohamed Bazoum closed the country's airspace on Monday, August 7, after ...

The Gambia on Tuesday set up an "investigative panel" and gave it 30 days to report back on last week's ...

The Gambia's government on Wednesday said it had thwarted a coup attempt the previous day and arrested four soldiers. "The ...

One of Sao Tome's leading opposition figures says accusations that he sought to mount a coup in the tiny African ...

Political parties, social and religious groups and representatives of the security forces launched talks on Friday to chart the next ...

Chadian leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno's plans to stay in power beyond his initially promised deadline have stirred anger at ...

Captain Ibrahim Traore was appointed as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, according to an official statement, after the West ...

Several dozen protestors waving Russian flags rallied in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday as West African delegates arrived on ...

Envoys from the West African bloc ECOWAS were heading to Burkina Faso on Monday after the jihadist-torn Sahel state underwent ...

A leading Chadian rebel flew home on Friday to join talks on the country's political future, after spending two years ...

Mali's junta said France no longer has a "legal basis" for carrying out military operations in the country after Bamako ...

For nine years, France was Mali's staunchest ally in its fight against jihadists who have claimed thousands of lives and ...

Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the head of Guinea's military junta, said Saturday he had opted for a 39-month transitional period before ...

Burkina Faso's junta leader has announced the setting up of local committees to seek dialogue with armed jihadist groups and ...

A commission created by the junta that seized power in Burkina Faso last month has proposed a 30-month transition period ...

Guinea-Bissau's former prime minister, Domingos Simoes Pereira, has been banned from leaving the country due to a probe into an ...

West African leaders began a key summit on Thursday called to address the latest coup in a region struggling with ...

Burkina Faso's new military junta held talks Tuesday with the Sahel country's political party chiefs, many of whom said they ...

Speculation that Niger may become the next Sahel nation to suffer a coup has surged since Burkina Faso underwent a ...

The African Union on Monday suspended Burkina Faso a week after the volatile country suffered its latest coup, as envoys ...

Malian cotton farmers are set to produce a bumper crop this year, but Mahamadou Konate is worried, belying the smile ...

Chad's junta announced Thursday that a national forum designed to chart the country's future after it seized power last year ...

Demonstrations called by the ruling military in Mali against stringent regional sanctions were expected to kick off on Friday amid ...

The United Nations called Thursday on Mali's ruling junta to announce an election timetable amid anger at its suggestion it ...