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The reality is that the African countries under new military leaders following coups face the spectre of plunging into Libyan and Sudan-like chaos.

For the Bongo dynasty, after the time of power will perhaps come that of the courts News

Burkina Faso's military leader, Ibrahim Traore has confirmed a coup attempt. President Ibrahim Traore confirmed that the coup plotters have since been arrested.

The anger against the French has been so intense that it has provoked at least seven coups in Africa (two in Burkina Faso, two in Mali, one in Guinea, one in Niger, and one in Gabon) and unleashed mass demonstrations from Algeria to the Congo and most recently in Benin.

What has been dubbed a second decolonisation process is occurring right now in Africa’s Sahel, reports Paul Gregoire.

The US is halting its aid to Gabon following last month's coup. “We are pausing certain foreign assistance programs that benefit the...

Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad cover anti-French developments in the Sahel. By Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad Peoples Dispatch In Bamako, Mali, on Sept. 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On X, the social media platform formerly

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve” – George Bernard Shaw Leadership failure is at the heart of the problem with African democracies. Others are authoritarian monarchies in the garb of democracy and sit-tight syndrome by those at the helm of affairs, glaring impunity, corrupt enrichment of…

The anger against the French has been so intense that it has provoked at least seven coups in Africa.

The statement expressed concern the new regimes could either align with the West, meaning the United States and Europe, or with the East, meaning China and Russia, creating the possibility of Africa becoming a battleground for Cold War tensions.