President Bola Tinubu said that an ECOWAS mission has been sent to the Niger Republic to intercede in the attempted coup in the country.
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Niger presidential guards are holding President Mohamed Bazoum inside the presidential palace in the capital, which has been blocked off by military vehicles since Wednesday morning, security sources said.
The former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said that coup should be seen as an organised crime and punished accordingly to allow democracy to survive in Africa.
A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity…
The current democratic transition in West Africa started in the early 1990s. At the formal level, it led to the…
Soldiers on Monday in Burkina Faso, arrested and detained the country’s President, Christian Kabore in army barracks a day after…
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, has disowned a publication attributed to him about “Defence Headquarters warning soldiers…
A coup has reportedly occurred in the North African country of Sudan with unidentified gunmen arresting several of the country’s…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Thursday imposed sanctions against the junta in Guinea and those slowing…
As I concluded this essay, it occurred to me that it corresponds with the sixth year anniversary of Nigeria’s President…