Gabon's Constitutional Court has approved a list of eight candidates to run in the Central African nation's presidential ...

Africa has witnessed seven coups since 2020, sparking concerns about democratic stability in the region In his book, A Journey in Service, former military president Ibrahim Babangida emphasizes ...

Less than a month after the military coup in Burkina Faso that brought Traoré ... or if he took assistance from Russian mercenaries as some other African countries had done, security support ...

Sudan, which has been in the grip of a two-year-old war between the army and a paramilitary group, has a history of civil ...

Four years ago, in 2021, the leaders of the military and R.S.F. came together to seize power in a military coup. But that alliance ... that has expanded into Africa’s largest war — and is ...

The masked soldiers belong to the Tigray Defence Forces ( TDF ), the region’s army. By attempting what is, in effect, a coup, ...

"The avalanche of election-related military coups in Africa disrupts democratic gains. In most of these elections, observers were excluded from the electoral process," he wrote. His sentiments ...

The trend towards resource nationalism is most advanced in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s “coup belt” and ... and heavy-handed approach military governments have taken ...

President William Ruto’s careful silence amid explosive coup allegations speaks volumes about Kenya’s delicate power dynamics ...

Two years into a civil war, troops recaptured the palace in Khartoum, routing a paramilitary foe. Civilians have been trapped ...

“It’s clear that things haven’t gone well given the proliferation of military coups and the presence of Wagner gangs in the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso,” EU foreign policy ...

The report, “Niger: Threatened and Brought to Heel: Human Rights and Civic Space under pressure since the 26 July Coup”, ...