BBC News, Libreville & Yaounde. Share Save. ... The announcement to free Mr Bongo follows pressure from regional bloc Eccas and ... The coup has been widely condemned in Africa and the West, ...

BBC News, Nairobi. Military coups were ... The overall number of coup attempts in Africa remained fairly consistent at an average of around four a year between 1960 and 2000.

Soldiers in the West African country of Niger have announced a coup on national TV. They said they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions and closed the nation's borders. Niger ...

M ali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which ...

Niger has become the latest country in West Africa where the army has seized control, following Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Chad - all former French colonies. Since 1990, a striking 78% of the ...

BBC News, Lagos President Bola Tinubu, who is at the helm of regional superpower Nigeria, regards the coup across the border in Niger as a litmus test for democracy in West Africa.

Ecowas chief mediator, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, says Niger is starting to feel the impact of the sanctions imposed by the West African bloc.

Mali and Russia have signed a series of agreements aimed at expanding mutual trade and strengthening economic ties. Among them is a pledge for greater cooperation on nuclear energy, according to ...