Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has appointed two new security chiefs, General Tomas Djassi and General Horta Inta, in a move seen as a response to recent coups in Niger and Gabon.... Read more »

Gabon’s transitional president, General Brice Nguema, says the military junta that ousted President Ali Bongo will take its time to conduct elections to avoid repeating mistakes of the past. Mr Nguema, who... Read more »

Bill Richardson, U.S. presidential hopeful in 2018 and a two-term governor of New Mexico, has passed on at 75. The former governor died “peacefully” in his sleep at his residence in Chatham,... Read more »

Military coup leaders in Gabon, on Saturday, stated that it would reopen the country’s borders, closed in the wake of the military coup that ousted ex-president Ali Bongo. A spokesman for Gabon’s... Read more »

Albert Ondo Ossa, the opposition candidate in Gabon, has charged the country’s military to allow the conclusion of the August 26th election and declare him a legitimate president. Mr Ossa made this... Read more »

Without France’s military operations in the Sahel, “there would probably no longer be a Mali … Burkina Faso, and I’m not sure there would still be Niger,” French President Emmanuel Macron told... Read more »

•AU says suspension in force until democracy is restored, Niger humanitarian crisis looms •Niger junta orders forceful eviction of French ambassador, cancels envoy, family’s visas The African Union’s Peace and Security Council... Read more »

The coup leaders in Gabon have said that the country’s new strongman, General Brice Nguema, would be sworn in as the ‘transitional president’ on Monday, September 4, at the constitutional court. As... Read more »

The African Union has suspended Gabon from from participating in any activities organized by the body following the military’s seizure of power on August 30, 2023, which led to the removal of... Read more »