Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

A spokesman said 14 members of the military had been arrested. The West African country’s president, who was not seen for ...

Far from merely being an internal event, the Benin coup attempt briefly placed the geopolitics of the entire region under a ...

Earlier Sunday, a group of soldiers appeared on Benin's state TV to announce the dissolution of the government in an apparent ...

A coup that was announced in Benin has been “foiled,” the interior minister said Sunday in a video on Facebook, but there was ...

Benin President Patrice Talon said on Sunday that the West African nation's government and armed forces had thwarted a coup ...

The alleged leader of a failed coup in Benin has sought refuge in neighbouring Togo, two Beninese government officials told ...

Lieutenant Colonel Tigri Pascal was named by the group, which calls itself the Military Committee for Refoundation, as ...

Benin's military was Monday searching for fugitive soldiers behind a foiled coup attempt on the weekend that left several ...

COTONOU, Benin -- A group of soldiers has appeared on Benin ’s state TV announcing the dissolution of the government in an apparent coup, the latest of many in West Africa. The group, which called ...