Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. August 2025 makes it five years since Malian soldiers ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in a coup d’état. While the event ...

In a scene that has become familiar across parts of Africa of late, a group of armed men in military garb appeared on state TV on Dec. 7, 2025, to announce that they had suspended the constitution and ...

Coups in Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau, an attempted coup in Benin: Africa has had a turbulent 2025. Why have coups become so frequent and how can the continent return to the democratic path?Two coups ...

From the late 90s, the rate of coups happening in Africa declined. By the millennium it was rare to hear about a coup d’etat in Africa. A coup is the violent overthrow of a government- democratically ...

LAGOS, Nigeria(AP) — Guinea-Bissau has joined a growing list of African countries where military officers have seized power since 2020. A few hours after gunshots were heard near the presidential ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Guinea-Bissau has joined a growing list of African countries where military officers have seized power since 2020. A few hours after gunshots were heard near the presidential office ...

A screen grab shows the Head of the Presidential Military Office of Guinea-Bissau, Denis Incanha (C), announcing with a group of officers that full control of the country had been taken at the General ...

The growing wave of military coups across West Africa may no longer be something the Economic Community of West African ...

“If people cannot trust their Government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and promote their welfare – all else is lost” … Barrack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of ...