POLLS have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically…
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CHABI Yayi, son of former Beninese president and current opposition figure Thomas Boni Yayi, was arrested early Sunday at his…
PRESIDENTS and their deputies from across West Africa met Sunday in Nigeria for a regional meeting whose agenda was dominated…
SOME 200 West African soldiers, mainly from Nigeria and Ivory Coast, are in Benin to support the government following Sunday’s…
BENIN’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Olushegun Bakari, on Thursday revealed how his country sought urgent military assistance from Nigeria to help…
NIGERIA’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has met with his Beninese counterpart, Olushegun Adjadi Bakar, in Abuja. At the…
NIGERIA deployed both air and ground troops to neighbouring Benin Republic on Sunday after President Patrice Talon’s government urgently requested…
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…