Tag: Niger

Most recently, it was Niger and now Gabon. Coups, as contagious as they are, have spread fluttering wings over the African continent, creating an alarming sequence across the sub-Saharan region. ...

Kwesi Pratt Jr, the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, has claimed that there is not a single person who did not expect a Coup d’état in Gabon.  In fact, ...

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has expressed its reservation against military intervention against the coup makers in Niger. According to the group, it is concerned that for the past ...

Collins Adomako-Mensah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Afigya Kwabre North Constituency has stated that no African country will benefit from any form of violence in any part of the ...

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 ...

Commissioner of political affairs, peace and security for the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah, has revealed that the military junta in Niger is playing "cat and mouse" with the ECOWAS ...

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, ...