Tag: coup

A cabinet reshuffle exposes the military’s stranglehold and shatters the facade of a civilian-led process. Nine months after the 18 August 2020 coup that removed...

A military unit tried to seize the presidential palace in Niger’s capital Niamey overnight in an attempted coup but order has been restored, the...

A Singaporean firm that has sold anti-drone products to Myanmar’s police is halting further business in the country and has canceled a deal with...

Mali military coup leaders must hand power to a civilian transitional government immediately, the chairman of the West African regional bloc said, as a...

In the chaotic hours between shots being fired at barracks outside Bamako and the president’s reluctant resignation, the first spoils of Tuesday’s coup in...

One of Mali’s most influential power brokers, Mahmoud Dicko, will withdraw from politics, his spokesman said, after a meeting on Wednesday with leaders of...

The UN is monitoring the situation in Mali where soldiers the President and some of his Cabinet ministers were arrested in a military coup earlier this week. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is following developments...

Sudan’s ousted long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was summoned for questioning on Tuesday over his role in the 1989 coup that brought him to power....

Two senior allies of deposed former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore were sentenced to 10 and 20 years in prison respectively for organising a...

Sudan’s military thwarted a coup attempt and arrested an unspecified number of senior officers in connection with a plot to restore the party of...

Sudan’s military rulers said several officers attempting a coup to undermine agreement between the military and the opposition to share power for three years...

Ethiopia released a recording of the state militia commander it says led a failed coup attempt last week in which dozens, including five top...

Nearly 250 people have been arrested in Ethiopia’s capital and the main city in Amhara region since a foiled coup attempt, state TV reported. Ethiopia...

A foiled coup in Ethiopia’s Amhara state that left five senior officials dead, including the army’s chief of staff, pushed ethnic militias in one...

Ethiopia’s army chief of staff and the head of northern state Amhara were killed in separate but related attacks when a general tried to...

Eight former soldiers were sentenced for plotting to overthrow Gambia’s president Adama Barrow in 2017 with the help of his ousted predecessor, the country’s...

Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar tried to stage a coup issuing an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj, UN envoy Ghassan Salame said...

The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) “rejects with contempt” allegations of apparent involvement in an allegedly soon-to-be staged coup d’état in neighbouring Botswana. At the...

On 7 January, a group of young military officers in Libreville, Gabon, tried to overthrow the government of President Ali Bongo Ondimba. The challenge...

Military officers in Gabon staged an apparent coup attempt early on Monday, seizing the state radio station and declaring their dissatisfaction with President Ali...