Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Damiba. In September, Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, the head of an ...

This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny.

When Benin's government over the weekend fought back a coup attempt, they had unlikely help: troops and air strikes from neighbouring countries. The Nigerian presidency said that Benin's foreign ...

A coup that was announced in Benin has been “foiled,” the interior minister said Sunday in a video on Facebook, but there was no word from the president and sporadic gunshots were heard in parts of ...

Soldiers in the West African country of Benin said on state television they had ousted the nation’s president and taken power ...

The coup attempt against Patrice Talon was thwarted with Nigerian military support, theoretical under the aegis of ECOWAS. It ...

Growing autocratic rule, a rise in jihadist attacks and a proliferation of coups in the Sahel contributed to the attempt by Benin’s military to seize power.

Benin President Patrice Talon said on Sunday that the West African nation's government and armed forces had thwarted a coup ...

TV broadcast for the RD Congo vs Benin matchRD Congo - Benin/@XThe Al Medina Stadium in Rabat will host a high-stakes ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo edged out Benin 1-0 in their opening game at the Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday, with Theo ...

Here are all the streaming, broadcast, venue and kick-off details for the Africa Cup of Nations 2025 group stage match ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mediawan Africa, the Republic of Benin and French-language international channel TV5 Monde are partnering to co-develop original daily fiction series The Best Is Yet To Come. The ambitious ...