Tag: Coup

Mali’s ruling military junta has detained dozens of senior officers, including two high-ranking generals, over what officials describe as an alleged attempt to destabilise the country’s leadership. According to security ...

A renewed debate has resurrected over the demands for the renaming of some national monuments and institutions particularly the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). Prominent legal scholars, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, ...

Despite recent gains, the African continent is besotted with several complex and multifaceted challenges. To mitigate the impact of these issues, the Accra Reflection Forum was Birthed and backed by ...

The University of Ghana Chapter of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UG-UTAG), has berated remarks made by the National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah, suggesting that some groups of people ...

A criminologist, Justice Tangabe, has revealed that military regimes in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa are not the solution to addressing issues associated with coups. According to him, instances of ...

Thousands of people in Niamey gathered up outside the main stadium, when the call for civilian support for the armed forces went out. The junta was aware of this initiative, ...

Political science lecturer, Prof Ransford Gyampo, has revealed that not all coups can be responded to with military force. According to him, coups are bad and there is no justification ...

Nana Akua Avle, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has issued a stern warning to the Akufo-Addo-led administration, by informing the President to “mind his own business.” She ...

Dominic Nitiwul, Ghana's Minister of Defense, has urged Army chiefs in West African nations to support their Head of States, as well as the Economic Community of West African States ...

There are always telling signs prior to the happening of an event, and while the coup in Niger is not an unprecedented scene on the shores of the African continent, ...