Africa has witnessed seven coups since 2020, sparking concerns about democratic stability in the region In his book, A Journey in Service, former military president Ibrahim Babangida emphasizes ...

The masked soldiers belong to the Tigray Defence Forces ( TDF ), the region’s army. By attempting what is, in effect, a coup, ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five ...

Sudan, which has been in the grip of a two-year-old war between the army and a paramilitary group, has a history of civil ...

Gabon's Constitutional Court has approved a list of eight candidates to run in the Central African nation's presidential ...

"The avalanche of election-related military coups in Africa disrupts democratic gains. In most of these elections, observers were excluded from the electoral process," he wrote. His sentiments ...

The trend towards resource nationalism is most advanced in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s “coup belt” and a zone increasingly aligned with Russia and hostile to the West.