This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny.

Earlier Sunday, a group of soldiers appeared on Benin's state TV to announce the dissolution of the government in an apparent ...

The coup that followed soon afterwards in Gabon, in August 2023, was similarly the product of local frustrations. In this ...

A coup that was announced in Benin has been “foiled,” the interior minister said Sunday in a video on Facebook, but there was no word from the president and sporadic gunshots were heard in parts of ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

The alleged leader of a failed coup in Benin has sought refuge in neighbouring Togo, two Beninese government officials told ...

The apparent leader of a failed coup in Benin is on the run and the fate of hostages remains unclear a day after a group of ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The government of Benin said Sunday that it had foiled a coup attempt by members of its military. President ...

Benin's military was Monday searching for fugitive soldiers behind a foiled coup attempt on the weekend that left several ...

A spokesman said 14 members of the military had been arrested. The West African country’s president, who was not seen for ...

Nigerian fighter jets carried out airstrikes to thwart a coup bid in Benin in which mutinying soldiers tried to seize ...