This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny.

Earlier Sunday, a group of soldiers appeared on Benin's state TV to announce the dissolution of the government in an apparent ...

The short-lived coup in Benin left “casualties on both sides” of the government forces and the mutinous soldiers, authorities ...

A coup that was announced in Benin has been “foiled,” the interior minister said Sunday in a video on Facebook, but there was no word from the president and sporadic gunshots were heard in parts of ...

The alleged leader of a failed coup in Benin has sought refuge in neighbouring Togo, two Beninese government officials told ...

The west African country has also issued an international arrest warrant against pan-Africanist and anti-Western influencer ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

Benin's military was Monday searching for fugitive soldiers behind a foiled coup attempt on the weekend that left several ...

Nigerian fighter jets carried out airstrikes to thwart a coup bid in Benin in which mutinying soldiers tried to seize ...