By Amos SAFO Security analysts of the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES), comprising, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have cited ...

Had last week's coup attempt in Benin been successful, it would have become the ninth to take hold in the region in the last ...

The Republic of Niger was captured by Gen Abdourahamane Tchiani in 2023. These three countries exited the Economic Community ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

Guinea-Bissau’s president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, was ousted last November without any help. He has since fled the ...

The resurgence of military coups across Africa is stirring deep concerns about the continent’s democratic stability, ...

A military takeover in Guinea-Bissau and an attempted coup in Benin are the latest tests for ECOWAS. But it is the ...

The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs has prohibited travel by UAE citizens to the Republic of Mali and has called on those currently in the country to leave and return home as soon as possible.

Findings by the Afrobarometer research network, which has repeatedly polled tens of thousands of African citizens, provide ...

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

The resurgence of military coups across Africa since 2020 represents a troubling regression in the continent's democratic ...