Mafalda Marchioro woke up to messages from friends living overseas asking if she was safe in Abidjan, the largest city in ...

Democratic governments in West and Central Africa are being increasingly challenged by the military.

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 ...

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.

Security experts have pushed back against a warning by Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni that South Africa faces potential coup threats, insisting there is no evidence of an immediate ...

Yet another coup in Africa - just five weeks after Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum was taken hostage by the troops of his own presidential guard, Gabon's Ali Bongo also finds himself detained in ...

The coup has been widely condemned in Africa and the West, including by France, the former colonial power which had close ties to the Bongo family. Gabon has been suspended from the African Union.

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

Ibrahim Traoré counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

US aid to Africa has been cut and now defence is in Trump's sights - but it may prove more costly.

Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema swaps his uniform for a suit in a bid for electoral success.

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 ...