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

The short-lived coup in Benin left “casualties on both sides” of the government forces and the mutinous soldiers, authorities ...

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.

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

Nigeria’s military sent fighter jets and ground forces into neighboring Benin to support President Patrice Talon, after a ...

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 ...

However, eight players who already featured at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt (June 21 to July 19, 2019) have made the list for the 2025 edition. Rodrigue Kossi, Jodel Dossou, David Kiki, ...