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Germany has suspended bilateral cooperation with Niger until further notice, and has warned that it may take more steps in response to a military coup last week that resulted in the detention of democratically elected President...

Despite Mohamed Bazoum, the country’s president, taking a stubborn stance, the head of the military forces of Niger on Thursday reaffirmed his support for troops who said they had seized power. Bazoum was held on Wednesday...

According to UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk, up to 40 charity workers have been slain in Myanmar since the military coup in 2021 that deposed democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Turk decried “direct...

Sudan’s military dictator, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has sacked six ambassadors for resisting the coup. The ambassadors that were fired were from the US, China, France, Qatar, the EU, and Switzerland, and they were stationed in Geneva....

The bloody conflict in Myanmar has displaced an estimated 230,000 people since the military coup began in February, and a UN agency says it needs urgent assistance. A report by the United Nations Office for the...

The World Bank has suspended its financial operations in Mali following the second coup in under a year in the West African nation, a spokesman in Bamako said Friday. The Washington-based bank has “temporarily paused disbursements...

Thousands rallied against the Myanmar coup in Yangon Sunday, as an internet blackout failed to quash outrage over the military’s power grab from elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. It was the second straight day of...

Calls for a civil disobedience campaign in Myanmar gathered pace Wednesday as the United States formally declared the military’s takeover a coup and vowed further penalties for the generals behind the putsch. Myanmar plunged back into...

Myanmar’s generals appeared in firm control Tuesday a day after a surgical coup that saw democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi detained, as they offered silence to a barrage of global condemnation, reports BSS. There were...

Scott Morrison was sworn in as Australia’s seventh prime minister in 11 years Friday after a stunning party revolt against Malcolm Turnbull, which the new leader admitted had left the government “bruised and battered”. Former home...