The head of Guinea’s junta, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, defended the use of military intervention in politics during a UN address Thursday, following a recent series of coups on the African continent. “Africa is suffering from a model of governance that has been imposed on us. A model that is certainly good and effective for the West, which designed it…
In the late hours of Wednesday, July 26; presidential guards led by a General in Niger Republic announced a successful coup on national television, taking over the government from Nigerienne President, Mohamed Bazoum. They effectively suspended all the institutions set up by the constitution and closed the nation’s borders just after putting president Bazoum under house arrest. The news of a…
France’s foreign minister on Monday denied accusations from Niger’s new junta that Paris is plotting to intervene militarily in Niger. The new junta in Niamey had earlier in the day charged that France was preparing to make a move. “In its search for ways and means to intervene militarily in Niger, France with the complicity of some Nigeriens held a…