ECOWAS has deployed its regional standby force to Benin after a failed coup attempt briefly saw mutineers claim power in ...

Within hours, loyalist forces regained control of key installations, including the state broadcaster, and arrested at least ...

The National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons (NACSALW) has welcomed a 66-member delegation from the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Nigeria, as part of an official study tour ...

ECOWAS has deployed its regional standby force to Benin after a failed coup attempt briefly saw mutineers claim power in ...

Ghana has initiated processes to deploy its contingent to the ECOWAS Standby Force mission in Benin, following an attempted coup d’état in the country on Sunday, JoyNews has learned.

The Economic Community of West African States has ordered the deployment of military troops from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast to Benin Republic. ECOWAS said the measure is aimed at ...

Benin, a former French colony, has been one of West Africa’s more stable democracies: The country’s last successful coup took ...

The government of Benin Republic has confirmed that it requested Nigeria’s military intervention to stop what it warned could ...

When Gowon, Ojukwu and the rest of the Supreme Military Council gathered at Aburi, they were trying to avoid what seemed to be the only possible outcome - war. Under gleaming lights and the gaze of ...

Abuja / Ouagadougou Eleven Nigerian military personnel remain in Burkina Faso following a controversial emergency landing of ...

Nigeria has offered asylum to Fernando Dias da Costa, a leading presidential candidate in Guinea-Bissau, following a military ...