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Antonio Tejero Molina, the Spanish Civil Guard officer who led a failed 1981 coup that ended up strengthening Spain’s fledging democracy, has died aged...
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Oumar Cisse used to lead tours of Djenne, an ancient, fabled city in central Mali known for its towering mud-brick mosque, but he now...
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Burkina Faso said this month it had foiled an assassination attempt on military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, but analysts — sceptical after a long...
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has rejected former president Jair Bolsonaro’s request to convert his prison sentence for plotting a coup to house arrest, according to...
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Military rulers in west Africa’s Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another anti-Western junta in...
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French special forces provided support to Beninese troops who put down an attempted coup at the weekend, the head of the country’s republican guard...
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When Benin’s government over the weekend fought back a coup attempt, they had unlikely help: troops and air strikes from neighbouring countries. West Africa...
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Benin’s military was Monday searching for fugitive soldiers behind a foiled coup attempt on the weekend that left several dead as other west African...
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Military personnel in Benin on Sunday announced that they had ousted President Patrice Talon, although his entourage said he was safe and the army...
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The new military leader of Guinea-Bissau appointed an ally of the ousted president as prime minister on Friday, as international criticism grew of this...