By Sheena Raikundalia US President Trump’s decision to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act through December 2026 has sparked jubilation in Nairobi. But beneath the...
By Gregory September Regional cooperation just got real. Landlocked Mali can now reach the Atlantic. For landlocked nations, geography is often destiny. Mali, nestled deep in...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The pattern has become grimly familiar across Africa: military coups followed by promises of democratic transition, then a return to authoritarianism. But...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu A couple of weeks ago, during the ISOA Africa Conference in Nairobi, I posited the argument that while every coup is a...
By Gregory Simpkins The African ‘coup train’ keeps on rolling with the latest coup attempt in Sierra Leone. This time, however, the coup was thwarted before...
By Gregory Simpkins Since African nations began the road to independence in the 1950s, there have been about 100 coups in which militaries overthrew elected governments....
AFP | West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of coups, a senior official...
The recent wave of coups in West Africa reflects both a generational divide and a history of military involvement in African politics.
Reuters |West Africa’s main political and economic bloc imposed sanctions on Sunday against Mali’s transitional leaders after they informed the organization they would not be able...
AFP | Guinea’s new prime minister Mohamed Beavogui on Thursday promised to follow a plan to restore civilian rule set out by the West African state’s...
West and Central Africa has seen 4 coups since last year
ECOWAS reaffirmed its opposition to any political changes by unconstitutional means and condemn in strongest terms, this coup.
Rebellious young people aren't a threat - they're the key to democratic reform
Guinea’s electoral commission has declared President Alpha Conde winner of an October 11 election to give him a second five-year term. Conde gained 58 percent of...
Millions of Guineans voted peacefully on Sunday in the West African country’s presidential and general election. The incumbent president, Alpha Conde, 77, is widely expected to...
Actor Idris Elba and a host of international soccer stars of Africa origin have launched a public awareness campaign on Wednesday to help halt Ebola epidemic...
Sierra Leone has sealed off the borders with Liberia and Guinea in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, the government spokesman said on Tuesday....
When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago, the country’s president quickly went on national TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials speedily...
Liberia has closed all but 3 land border crossings, restricted public gatherings and quarantined communities heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation....
Ebola is continuing to spread in three West African countries and the death toll in the outbreak has risen to more than 330. Health officials are...
Sierra Leone has announced a state of emergency in the Kailahun district from the outbreak of the Ebola virus which has claimed 17 lives, banning public...
West African nations are working to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea, with symptoms...
Situated on the westernmost tip of Africa, Senegal is a country that has long been associated with European and transatlantic trade due to its geography. Colonized...
(Reuters) – Guinea’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected all the complaints lodged against the result of the September 28 parliamentary election in which President Alpha Conde’s...
By Carlos Lopes Africa’s political economy is deeply ingrained with its history of the exploitation and (mis)-management of its mineral and natural resources. More than 500...
Guinea’s ruling party is leading in the first parliamentary elections in over a decade, provisional partial results showed late Sunday According to data issued by the...
Voter casts ballot in Guinea legislative elections. PHOTO/Reuters Guineans voted in the first parliamentary elections for more than a decade in the once troubled west African...
Guinea’s opposition and ruling parties reached an agreement to hold the country’s long-delayed legislative elections in September, the opposition said Wednesday. Aboubacar Sylla, a spokesman for...
General Souleymane Kelefa Diallo (Reuters) – The head of Guinea’s armed forces, was killed on Monday when the aircraft carrying him and five other top Guinean...
Newspaper vendors in Senegal. PHOTO/File After 50 years of independence, the path to democracy does not follow an obvious, straight line in this region, just as...
Opposition supporters attempting to join a march were violently dispersed on Tuesday, and at least four people were killed when paramilitary police seized control of traffic...
CONAKRY, Guinea — Ten political prisoners have left a prison in Guinea’s capital a day after the president pardoned them and less than a month after...
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - At least one member of his security detail was killed, several more were wounded and portions of his house were destroyed, said...
