Coup

In addition to the no-flight zone, the regional body has agreed immediate financial sanctions over the coup. Following the swift response to military coup in Niger Republic, the Economic Community of West African States…

By Festus Adedayo At times like this, two works of literature are my abiding refuge. One, written over a century ago, speaks to the melee both in the APC and Nigeria as a whole. It is a poem entitled ‘The Second Coming’ by…

The African Union on Saturday condemned the “unconstitutional change of government” in Burkina Faso, a day after the second coup this year in the deeply poor and restive West African country. Junior officers toppled a junta leader on…

Burkina Faso has been hit by another coup, the second in eight months in the West African nation. Captain Ibrahim Traore announced Friday night that the army had seized power and ousted military leader Paul Henri Damiba. Damiba…