Shido Boris Esperanca only lacked the right opportunity, and the Professional Fighters League seems to have provided it.

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

On December 7, the mutineers highlighted deep-seated problems within the institution, issues that soldiers had raised for ...

Nigeria's fading influence leaves West Africa vulnerable as coups rise and foreign actors step in. Countries like Chad, Mali, ...

Benin President Patrice Talon said Thursday that the bulk of the army did not back a recent foiled coup bid whose leaders ...

Military rulers in west Africa's Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another ...

The coup attempt against Patrice Talon was thwarted with Nigerian military support, theoretical under the aegis of ECOWAS. It ...

Global Atomic delayed the start-up of Niger’s Dasa uranium processing plant by one year to the second half of 2027. Border closures with Benin and financing delays disrupted equipment imports and ...

President Bola Tinubu is currently attending the 68th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and ...

The recent coup attempt in Benin Republic and Nigeria’s intervention have raised no little dust. In this analysis BIYI ...

Hundreds of young demonstrators flooded the streets of Cotonou, the capital of the Benin Republic, on Saturday to condemn last Sunday’s failed military ...

It started quietly in the early hours of Sunday, December 7, 2025, checks by WITHIN NIGERIA report. By 2am, a group of armed ...