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Former President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with treason for his alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt in…
The French embassy in Niger was attacked by demonstrators on July 30, 2023, and the military junta ruling the country
West Africa’s top court on Thursday rejected a request by Niger’s junta for a lifting of coup-related sanctions imposed by…
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo issued a decree Monday dissolving the nation’s opposition-controlled parliament, less than...
Another coup attempt against Gabon's now-deposed President Ali Bongo Ondimba failed in 2019.
Mali’s military government has postponed a presidential election that was expected to return the West African nation to democracy following…
Gabon 's new military leader was sworn in as the head of state Monday less than a week after ousting the…
The African Union on Tuesday suspended Niger from all of its institutions and activities “until the effective restoration of constitutional order” following last month's…
Mutinous soldiers in Niger are under pressure from regional sanctions as they refuse to reinstate the country's president whom they…
One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country's ousted president or face military…
Niger's new military ruler lashed out at neighboring countries and the international community in a nationally televised speech Wednesday night,…
A French military transport plane carrying Europeans departed Niger on Tuesday in the first such evacuation flight since mutinous soldiers…
Neighboring nations are levying economic sanctions over a coup last week that toppled one of the West's last democratic partners against West African extremists,…
Niger's president defiantly declared Thursday that democracy would prevail, a day after mutinous soldiers detained him and announced they had seized…
Mutinous soldiers claimed to have overthrown Niger's democratically elected president, announcing on state television late Wednesday that they have put…
Problems brewed thousands of miles away — climate change and the war in Ukraine — have been devastating to the…