COTONOU, Benin — An attempted coup in the Republic of Benin has been thwarted, government authorities said on Sunday, following a brief seizure of the national television station by mutinous soldiers....
Guinea-Bissau’s ousted President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has fled to neighbouring Senegal after being released by the military officers who overthrew his government earlier this week, Senegalese authorit...
FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan is currently trapped in Guinea Bissau after a group of military officers announced they have taken over the government. Jonathan alongside hundreds of foreign observ...
MILITARY officers in Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday announced that they had assumed “total control” of the country, suspending the electoral process and closing all borders just three days after the natio...
THE Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has issued an urgent appeal for coordinated international intervention as Mali’s security and humanitarian crisis reaches critica...
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth term in office after winning the majority of votes in Saturday’s presidential election, the Independent Electoral Commission announced on...
