The sociopolitical and economic conditions that led to coups in other countries in west Africa are present in Nigeria. Nigeria is still largely divided along lines of clans and religion. Insecurity is ...

New Resolute Mining (RSG) chief executive Chris Eger will not be travelling to Mali any time soon. This is understandable ...

Military strongmen have silenced their critics and muzzled the media, threatening, arresting and exiling those who speak out ...

Fatalities and violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa sustained near record pace, with the Sahel and Somalia accounting for 79 percent of related deaths.Highlights There were an ...

This extraordinary story is told in a new documentary, 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat', which juxtaposes jazz with political murder. Directed by Johan Grimonprez, it cut deep into the blood-and-rubber ...

Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, 57, Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a widely circulated opinion article entitled, ‘Foreign ...

The Commission is urged to promptly investigate the enforced disappearances and arbitrary arrests of political figures by the ...

ShareMinister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, speaks in this interview monitored on Arise Television on the final exit of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African ...

Now there is no public support for sending any more troops to Africa even if they are requested by beleaguered African governments. Those African political crises have been a regular feature of ...

Relations between ECOWAS and the coup-hit Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso began to deteriorate after the bloc imposed stringent sanctions on Niger to pressure its military to reverse the coup it had ...