The chiefs of staff from of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) concluded a two-day meeting in Accra, Ghana, on the upcoming steps for a potential military intervention in Niger, aimed at “restoring constitutional” ruling, weeks after the coup against President Mohamed Bazoum.
The coup d’etat in Niger led the Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS to meet in extraordinary session in Abuja, Nigeria, on Sunday July 30, 2023, under the aegis of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of Nigeria and current chairman of ECOWAS.
On Monday, an Ashaiman district court took into custody one of the leaders of a civil society organization for threatening to carry out a coup. Ghana Police charged Barker-Vormawor with the crime of treason.
On Thursday, Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Cissoco Embalo accused a former navy chief and two other men arrested in 2013 by the US anti-drug agency of being behind the coup attempt of February 1st.
Calm returns to Bissau! said the President of Guinea Bissau General Umaro El Mokhtar Sissoco Embalo as he announced on social media his resistance to a coup this Tuesday, February 1, 2022, before holding an urgent press conference this evening in his palace.
A few weeks before a summit between the European Union and the African Union in Brussels (February 17 and 18), the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame spoke out on topics that will be the subject of discussions during This meeting. For the Rwandan leader, the recurrence of putsches in Africa is “the fruit of bad governance”.
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the Burkinabé soldier, who led the putsch against former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on January 24, finally made his first speech on national television on the evening of Thursday January 27, 2022.
Burkina Faso army has terminated the functions of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, Burkinabé soldiers finally openly declared on national television on Monday.
A failed coup attempt took place in Sudan early this Tuesday September 21, according to state media. Karthoum announced that it was allegedly led by supporters of Omar al-Bashir, the former president ousted by the army in 2019.
“Since 8 am (local time), automatic weapon fire has been ringing in Kaloum, the business and administrative district and the headquarters of the presidential palace,” local media reported “Guinea News”.
