Former military president Ibrahim Babangida has revealed his insights on how Africa can prevent future coups after seven successful coups in Africa since 2020.

In west and central Africa, there have been at least 10 coup attempts in the same period. Those of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Guinea were successful. A number of social, economic and ...

Burkina Faso is among Africa’s poorer countries ... In the early days after the coup, Traoré said that the soldiers would waste no time getting Burkina Faso back on track, and that he would ...

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The journalist who first interviewed Bombshell has also been arrested on charges of transmitting a message that incites ...

The trend towards resource nationalism is most advanced in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s “coup belt” and a zone increasingly aligned with Russia and hostile to the West.

Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Monday he would run for a second term in November, backtracking on ...

Thus, the tone of “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is “in a sense ... The music, which also spotlights the role of Congolese rumba in pan-African liberation, functions not as mere soundtrack ...

Terrorism in the Sahel has increased significantly, with deaths rising nearly tenfold since 2019, according to the Global ...

Kotoka International Airport – in Accra has been seen an insult by Pan-Africanists and a painful reminder of the collusion ...

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, ...