The African continent, long a theatre of political experimentation and turbulence, has in recent years witnessed a dramatic resurgence of military interventions in governance. Since 2020, at least ...

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THE BOSS of Barrick Gold, a Canadian mega-miner and the world’s second-largest gold producer, is no stranger to bust-ups with African governments. Earlier this month, in Cape Town, Mark Bristow ...

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Military elements attempted to topple Benin’s government in early December 2025. However, unlike other coups across the Sahel and west Africa since 2020, this bid triggered a military response from ...

In the West African nation of Niger, killings by insurgents have surged since the military seized power in a coup, expelled U.S. and European troops and stopped negotiations with Islamist groups. By ...

What could happen over the next year in the Sahel? Here are four hypothetical situations for how the future for the military and economic bloc formed by Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in September 2023 ...

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 ...

There are arguments that the normalisation of coups in one country may embolden such in another, creating a cycle of instability that is hard to break without strong democratic safeguards. There are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just days after Chinese ambassador Yang Renhuo met Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo to donate airport security ...