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 ...

By Robbie Corey-Boulet DAKAR, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The alleged leader of a failed coup in Benin has sought refuge in ...

Plotters misjudged the national mood and Benin's neighbours learnt from past errors, says analyst Paul Melly.

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 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 ...

The government of Benin said Sunday that it had foiled a coup attempt by members of its military.

Coup leader Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri is on the run, while the others are believed to have escaped into the countryside ...

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

By MacDonald Dzirutwe, Robbie Corey-Boulet and Pulcherie Adjoha COTONOU, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Nigerian fighter jets carried out ...