President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the gallantry of Nigeria's military on Sunday for responding swiftly to the request ...

The military takeover attempting to overthrow Benin President Patrice Talon lasted a few hours before authorities announced ...

Soldiers briefly announced a coup in Benin on state TV, naming Lt. Col. Tigri Pascal as leader and claiming to suspend the ...

West Africa stands at a critical moment—fragile, fast-moving, and unforgiving. Despite years of regional diplomacy, the Economic Community of West ...

ECOWAS deploys its standby force to Benin after a foiled coup attempt against President Patrice Talon. Plotters have been ...

Benin says it has thwarted an attempted military takeover after soldiers briefly appeared on state TV claiming to dissolve ...

ECOWAS deploys its standby force to Benin to restore constitutional order after a failed coup attempt against President Patrice Talon. Read the latest.

In his office on the fringes of downtown Bor, Časlav Gavrić, a serious, chain-smoking man in early middle age, considered how ...

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Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

Lieutenant Colonel Tigri Pascal was named by the group, which calls itself the Military Committee for Refoundation, as ...

DAKAR, Senegal — It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on ...