updated Wed. January 3, 2024
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Guardian (blog)
March 6, 2018
The revenge coup of July 1966, which eventually led to the avoidable bloody three-year civil war culminated in the emergence of preponderance of northerners as military, security and intelligence authorities. And these they have used to dominate the country. That was when the rain started beating NigeriaÃâà...
Vanguard
March 6, 2018
It said, however, now we had over two dozen African countries with democratically elected governments and which are hopefully not going to have transitions in government through coup d'etats and other illegal methods. “As we look at the 20 elections, obviously Nigeria, though it's not this year – it's goingÃâà...
Daily Nation
March 5, 2018
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni delivers a speech during the ceremony marking the laying of the foundation stone for the starting point of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) in Kabaale. Museveni had already scrapped the two-term limit in 2005. PHOTO | GAEL GRILHOT | AFPÃâà...
WTOP
February 27, 2018
Diendere briefly took power after the presidential guard under his command staged a coup of the transitional government in September 2015. He stepped down days later under pressure from the regional bloc, Burkina Faso's military and protesting citizens. He and others now face life in prison for chargesÃâà...
Vanguard
February 24, 2018
In all the coups, you find there is one frustration or the other. Anytime there is frustration, we step in. and then there is demonstration welcoming the redeemers.” Gen. Babangida's message is clear: coup plotters wait patiently for frustration to build up in the country and, pretending to gullible Nigerians thatÃâà...
The Intercept
February 18, 2018
... is no stranger to military power seizures. In neighboring Burkina Faso, the American-trained elite presidential guard carried out a coup that eventually failed in 2015, while an American-trained captain named Amadou Sanogo led a destabilizing coup in Mali in 2012. Niger has had four coups since 1960.
Pulse Nigeria
February 14, 2018
Anyone who looks back at the accounts of Nigeria's first coup in January 1966 will easily observe that soldiers like Kaduna Nzeogwu did a lot to affect the perception that the coup was motivated first and foremost by issues of tribe. Whether it was or not, nothing could justify the bloodletting that followed.
News24
January 27, 2018
Niamey - A military court in Niger on Friday handed down jail terms of between five and 15 years to nine soldiers and a civilian accused of seeking to overthrow President Mahamadou Issoufou in 2015. The court found them guilty of "fomenting, between November and December 2015, a plot aimed atÃâà...
News24
January 8, 2018
Niamey - The trial of soldiers accused of involvement in a purported bid to overthrow Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou in December 2015 will get under way on January 23, a source said on Monday. Those implicated in the alleged coup include General Souleymane Salou, former chief of staff;Ãâà...
