Tag: Guinea

Buhari to ECOWAS leaders: "Any decision on Mali Burkina Faso, Guinea must consider the people"

Burkina Faso had already been suspended from the West African regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States

Picture credit: Nick_ Raille_07/Shutterstock The most recent military intervention of January 24 in Burkina Faso, combined with the other recent ...

Coups in Africa. Picture credit: Souleymane Camara/Reuters/Council on Foreign Relations In a region where 15 of the 16 countries were ...

Post-colonial Africa has seen over 200 coup attempts, with roughly half seeing the head of government successfully removed. The democratic ...

There have been four military coups in the West Africa sub-region in the last six months with the latest occurring ...

The coup in Burkina Faso is the latest in a the region

Between 2011 and 2013 alone, OSIWA funded nearly 300 developmental projects in nine countries, including Nigeria.

The Peace and Security Council consistently failed to confront the governance deficits that underlie many of the continent’s conflicts.

The imposition of the sanctions is the bloc’s toughest response yet to a run of military takeovers.

Why is there a resurgence of military coups in Africa? Something is fundamentally wrong with the prevailing socio-political structures in ...

The coalition of the regional leaders under the auspices of ECOWAS, last month, imposed sanctions on the Guinea junta members ...

The transition process should focus on building strong, accountable institutions rather than just a government of national unity.

West and Central Africa has seen four coups since last year.

Africa is coup-prone. It started with the January 13, 1963 overthrow of Sylvanus Olympio. Sudan holds the record of 15 ...

In Guinea, the coup against Alpha Conde was organised by Lt-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who he had appointed as head of ...

Soldiers in the West African country of Guinea overthrew the civilian government, while the continent was still savouring its Zambian ...

“The unconstitutional seizure of power in any shape or form is simply unacceptable – four coups within the past few ...

In Kaduna State, Governor El-Rufai has shown that it is possible to try new options and deploy technology to leap-frog ...

The coup has sparked fears among the civilian population.

The event will be Museveni’s sixth inauguration as a democratically elected leader.

The project, to be executed over a three-year period, will potentially affect 350 million people in all 15 ECOWAS nations.

Guinea declared the new outbreak on February 14, four years after the world’s worst Ebola crisis in West Africa between ...

WHO says it views each fresh emergence of Ebola since 2016 with extreme concern, treating the most recent outbreak in ...

Liberia saw the world’s longest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in 2014.