Benin Republic has placed Candide Azannai, former defence minister and prominent opposition politician, in pre-trial detention as ...
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Coup contagion? Inside rising power grabs in Africa
The prevalence of military takeovers led United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to warn as far back as 2021 of a coup “epidemic.” In a scene that has become familiar across parts of Africa ...
This article was published in this column on 4 August, 2023 following the coup d’état in Niger Republic on 26 July, 2023. It is being reprinted because of the recent developments in Benin Republic: ...
President Donald Trump expanded a travel ban imposed in June to seven additional countries and added restrictions to even ...
Rokia Koné recorded the song N’yanyan in one take, on a night when the world around her was in upheaval. It was August of 2020, and there was a coup d’etat in Mali. She found solace in the words, ...
It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...
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Benin is the latest African country to experience a coup. Here is a look at other military takeovers
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 ...
Mali, a landlocked West African country of about 25 million people, has faced an escalating siege in recent months as fighters from JNIM, a group affiliated with al-Qaeda, cut off key supply routes to ...
Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, authorities said Monday. “The young TikTok user Mariame Cissé was abducted by armed ...
Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, authorities said Monday. Mariame Cissé was abducted on Friday from a weekly market ...
African Union Commission President Mahmoud Ali Youssouf expressed “deep concern over the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Mali” on Sunday, referring to an ongoing fuel blockade by jihadists ...
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