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 ...

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

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 ...

The association of Igbos with the coup led to attacks on members of that community around the country and ultimately to the civil war in which some Igbo leaders tried to secede from Nigeria in 1967.

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 ...

“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 ...

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

LIBREVILLE - Gabon's Constitutional Court has approved a list of eight candidates to run in the Central African nation's ... who seized power in a military coup in 2023. Although transitional ...