NIGERIA deployed both air and ground troops to neighbouring Benin Republic on Sunday after President Patrice Talon’s government urgently requested…
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BENIN’s President Patrice Talon says the government and armed forces have thwarted an attempted coup in the West African nation…
A GROUP of military personnel in Benin on Sunday announced that they had ousted President Patrice Talon, who is due…
NONE of the three Guineas is thriving, but in Guinea-Bissau, the country that sits on Africa’s map like a tongue…
A DELEGATION from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has visited Guinea-Bissau for mediation talks with leaders of…
SENEGAL’s prime minister and Nigeria’s former president have both said they believe the ousting of Guinea-Bissau’s president this week was…
GUINEA-BISSAU’s former president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has travelled to the Republic of Congo, the AFP and Associated Press news agencies…
FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan has raised questions about the recent coup in Guinea-Bissau, saying that it was strange that the…
GUINEA-BISSAU’s deposed president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has arrived in Senegal, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed, a day…
FORMER President, Goodluck Jonathan is among hundreds of foreign election observers currently stranded in Guinea Bissau following a dramatic military…
MILITARY officers in Guinea-Bissau announced Wednesday they were taking “total control” of the country while suspending its electoral process and…
THE uncertainty surrounding alleged coup plots in Nigeria has intensified, as two individuals arrested during a military raid on the…
THE Presidency has cautioned that widespread circulation of unverified reports about alleged coup plots is damaging Nigeria’s economy and putting…
THE Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) has intensified its investigation into an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu, with military…
THE Presidency has explained why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved major changes in Nigeria’s military hierarchy, including the removal of…
THE African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called on the Federal Government to come clean on the recent reports of an…
THE Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has strongly dismissed media reports suggesting that the cancellation of Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary parade was…
MALI has arrested dozens of soldiers suspected of plotting to overthrow the junta, which itself took power in the west…
US-BRAZIL relations slid into crisis Monday after President Donald Trump criticized the high-profile coup trial of his right-wing ally, ex-president…
LIBERIA’s former President William Tolbert has had a symbolic reburial, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and…