Commentators have been at a loss in trying to make sense of the sequence of two coups each in Mali and Burkina Faso, and one apiece in Guinea and Niger ... will form in West Africa, a ‘khaki ...

Niger lies in a region of West Africa known as the Sahel. This area has been afflicted with numerous coups in recent years that have made it the "longest corridor of military rule on Earth," The ...

LAGOS, Nigeria - Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso ... The withdrawal marks yet another chapter to the crises in West Africa, a region gripped by political instability and rising violence, since ...

Previous coups in West Africa have met with little consequence, but following the coup in Niger, ECOWAS gave the coup plotters a week to restore the democratically elected government, otherwise ...

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS urged junta-led Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali to reconsider ... to curtail a retreat of democracy in West Africa that started with a military takeover in ...

Niger’s military government has defied a Sunday deadline from West Africa’s regional bloc to reinstate overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum or face a possible military intervention. Defence ...

ACCRA, Aug 18 (Reuters) - West Africa's main regional bloc on Friday said it had agreed an undisclosed "D-Day" for a possible military intervention to restore democracy in Niger if diplomatic ...

The recent unrest in West Africa indicates that if America doesn’t change its approach, it could lose the continent to China and Russia. Niger’s coup is the ninth in West and Central Africa in ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s top court on Thursday rejected a request by Niger’s junta for a lifting of coup-related sanctions imposed by its neighbors, ruling that the junta is ...

Russia has quietly been distributing its own flags throughout West Africa, where they are now considered “so cool.” By Elian Peltier Reporting from Niamey, Niger Young people in West African ...