Curiously, a presidential ‘coup’ and the country’s connections with the Latin American trade have drawn little attention from ...

West African bloc ECOWAS rejected on Sunday a transition programme announced by Guinea-Bissau’s military rulers and demanded ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Damiba. In September, Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, the head of an ...

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

The United Kingdom has condemned the recent coup in Guinea-Bissau and the attempted coup in Benin, highlighting concerns over ...

Bloc warns of sanctions on all individuals or groups of people who obstruct return to constitutional order, 'if the demand to ...

Bissau's opposition presidential candidate Fernando Dias protection at its embassy in the capital Bissau following a military coup, the Nigerian foreign ministry said on Monday.

ECOWAS has rejected Guinea-Bissau’s military transition plan, demanding a swift return to constitutional rule and warning of ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Guinea-Bissau has joined a growing list of African countries where military officers have seized power since 2020. A few hours after gunshots were heard near the presidential ...

The resolution was issued following an Extraordinary Virtual Session of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council (MSC) at the level of Heads of State and Government, chaired by Sierra Leone’s ...

One morning in early 2005, the villagers of Biombo found hundreds of carefully sealed packets of white powder washed up on their mangrove flats on Guinea-Bissau’s Atlantic coast. The women discovered ...