The Defence Headquarters has criticised reports associating it with any takeover from the current democratic dispensation while pledging its loyalty to the Nigerian Constitution. This was...
Eight people have been killed in Myanmar after security forces opened fire on some protesters demonstrating against military rule on Sunday, while scores sustained serious injuries...
The European Union (EU) says it has imposed sanctions on 10 of Myanmar’s military leaders, as well as two giant military conglomerates, in its toughest measures...
A woman who was shot in the head by police during protests in Myanmar last week has died, becoming the first protest fatality since the country’s...
The former President of the Central African Republic (CAR), François Bozizé, has dismissed claims that he is plotting a coup to oust the country’s government. Reports...
Authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) have accused former President, François Bozizé of an attempted coup. The government of CAR said in a statement on...
Experts appointed by Mali’s military coup leaders have proposed a two-year transitional government to be led by a president chosen by the army during a forum...
The major players of Mali’s military rulers have launched a three-day “national consultation” with political parties, unions and members of civil society groups, facing questions at...
The military government of Mali that seized power wants a military-led transitional body to rule the country for three years and has agreed to release deposed...
The Tuesday coup d’état in Mali by mutineering soldiers has been condemned by the Nigerian government. Following the crisis in Mali, some rebel soldiers on Tuesday...
The former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani has said that the wishes of the people of Mali should be respected. He stated this while condemning African...
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has denied bribery and fraud charges levelled against his person by the country’s attorney general, describing the move as...
The suspected ringleader of Saturday’s failed coup attempt in Ethiopia’s Amhara region has been declared wanted, a senior security official told the BBC on Monday. Amhara’s...
Ethiopia’s army chief of staff has been shot, the prime minister’s press secretary told Aljazeera on Sunday, hours after a failed coup attempt was reported in...
The Nigerian Army has reacted to the statement by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu suggesting the possibility of a coup owing to alleged anti-democratic acts by...
The Nigerian Army may have begun an internal search for soldiers and officers suspected to be engaging in political meetings, a top military source has told...
Long-serving Gambian President Yahya Jammeh seems really desperate to hold onto power after declaring a state of emergency. He cited undue foreign interference in the recently...
While testifying before the Senate, suspended Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff declared that her rivals were staging a coup against her as she denied breaking budget rules....
A former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), has thrown his weight behind calls for restructuring, provided it would be done within the context of...
Moments after an attempted coup in Turkey which has been foiled following sporadic clashes in Istanbul and Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking for the first...
Despite initially denying the veracity of claims by Niger Delta Militants that top officers in the military approached them over a coup plot against President Muhammadu...
The Nigerian Army has described the allegation that some of its officers are planning to over throw President Muhammadu Buhari as baseless and most unfortunate. Niger...
The Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), on Wednesday alleged that there are underground plans by some top Army officers to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari. The...
Senior security officials in Burkina Faso reveal that General Gilbert Diendere who was the ring leader in a failed coup last September has been charged with...
For going against their constitutional duty of protecting the country and its institutions, a unit of guards that carried out a coup in Burkina Faso last...
Burkina Faso’s army has reached the capital Ouagadougou to seek the surrender of the presidential guard who staged a coup last Thursday. Negotiations between army chiefs...
For daring to break the new ‘convention’ in Africa that forbids military regime, the continent’s apex political body, the African Union (AU) on Friday suspended Burkina...
Apparently unable to come to terms with the reality that their beneficiary, Blasie Campaore, has been toppled by popular uprising, Burkina Faso army troops loyal to...
