Transitional leader urges voters to back draft charter, which proposes changes that include presidential term limits.Gabon is voting in a referendum on whether to adopt…
Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of…
A coup is underway in Bogota, Colombia. Or so the Colombian president Gustavo Petro claims. On October 8, Petro took to social media to denounce…
Istanbul, Turkey – The news that Fethullah Gulen, widely believed in Turkey to be the mastermind behind the country’s 2016 coup attempt, had died had…
Colombia’s first leftist leader says the investigation into his 2022 campaign finances seeks to unseat him from power.Election officials in Colombia have voted to launch…
Four years ago this month, a group of Malian soldiers descended on a military base in Kati, close to the capital Bamako, arrested their most…
As the Democratic National Convention kicked off in Chicago this week, former President Trump took to his Truth Social and repeatedly, falsely, described President Biden’s…
Former President Trump lashed out Monday at Vice President Kamala Harris, criticizing her father, falsely stating that she was recruiting undocumented immigrants to vote and…
1 of 2 | U.S. Major Gen. Kenneth Ekman, director of Strategy, Engagement and Programs for U.S. Africa Command, speaks at a June 7 press…
As early as the end of 2020, a wave of films began to speak to the COVID-19 pandemic, either explicitly or unintentionally via the limits…
A Sierra Leone court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses following what authorities have called an attempted coup, with their leader sentenced…
Niamey, Niger – “No talk of politics today,” Aissata* said to her teenage daughter on the way to her parents’ house for their traditional Sunday…
The Myanmar Military Coup D’etat that happened on February 1, 2021, has since marked a significant change in the country’s stability and political landscape, overturning…
Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz on Wednesday evening and a general was arrested after President Luis Arce slammed…
EXPLAINERPresident Luis Arce asserts authority as Bolivian Army General Juan Jose Zuniga, who was behind the coup d’etat bid, is arrested. Bolivian President Luis Arce…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Regioinal organisations rally behind Bolivian government as troops and armoured vehicles gather in the capital. Soldiers have stormed Bolivia’s presidential palace in…
Recent shootings, first at the presidential palace, and then, at the site of a public broadcaster, in capital Ouagadougou, are fuelling suggestions that Burkina Faso…
Like teens on Depop, Eminem is combing through his Y2K archives for a new look. On Friday, the rapper released “Houdini,” the first single from…
A MAN believed to be British and three Americans could face the death penalty after taking part in a bungled coup in central Africa. After…
A high-profile trial of members of a far-right group accused of plotting a coup to overthrow the German government is set to begin in Frankfurt…