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

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

Nigeria, the African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday swiftly condemned an attempted military takeover in the Benin Republic, which saw soldiers briefly ...

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea and Gabon have all suffered regime change in the last five years, led by men in military uniform. Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau experienced the same fate in 2025.

Many African nations in the Sahel region have welcomed the opportunity with Russia. African nations have built a budding relationship with Russia, securing multi-billion dollar military deals that ...

Africa is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing and most influential nations. This Top 19 list of the most powerful countries in Africa celebrates the leadership, economic growth, political ...

Carnegie Mellon University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. I lead a research team that compiles the Colpus Dataset of coup types and characteristics and have written on the ...

Two American military cargo jets deported people to Africa this month on flights that appear to have had their transponders turned off, obscuring their locations from public flight databases and other ...

Russia, not long ago a rising military force in Africa, is now struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent. The Kremlin’s new official guns-for-hire military force, the Africa Corps, has ...