coup d'etat

The soldiers who orchestrated a coup d’etat in Gabon announced they had appointed General Brice Oligui Nguema as their interim president.

President Emmanuel Macron said that France’s ambassador is staying at his post in Niger despite being asked to leave by the ruling junta.

Niger’s military rulers, who seized control of the government in July, gave the French ambassador 48 hours to leave the country.

General Abdourahamane Tchiani, the leader of the Niger military coup, announced that he would not remain in power for over three years.

The leaders of the “National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland,” a group of soldiers who staged a coup in Niger on July 26, failed to allow diplomats representing the United Nations and African Union from entering the country on Tuesday, claiming public “anger” made it unsafe for them to land.

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) called an emergency meeting for Thursday this week after the passage of an ultimatum it issued to coup organizers in Niger to restore the democratically elected government or face a potential military invasion.

The military junta in control of Niger since July 26 announced on Sunday that, in response to a threat of invasion by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), it would shut down the country’s airspace and issue an “energetic and instant response” to any unauthorized flights over its territory.

President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger, deposed by a military coup d’etat last week and believed to be trapped in his presidential residence, declared himself a “hostage” and in a Washington Post column published on Thursday asked for American intervention on his behalf.

The State Department announced on Wednesday that it would begin evacuating “non-emergency” American personnel from its embassy in Niamey, Niger, where a group calling itself the “National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland” claimed to have overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum last week.

The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on Tuesday that American troops remain in Niger and have no imminent plan to leave, though they remain in “clearly a not-normal situation” following the head of the presidential guard staging an attempted coup d’etat against President Mohamed Bazoum.

The governments of Burkina Faso and Mali issued statements on Monday defending the military coup in Niger last week, stating that any military intervention by democratic neighbors to oust the coup leaders in Niger would be a “declaration of war” against them, as well.

The regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), following an emergency meeting on Sunday, announced that it would consider “force” to oust the leaders of a coup d’etat in Niger last week, rejecting their authority and declaring “zero tolerance for unconstitutional change of government.”

General Abdourahmane Tchiani appeared on national television and declared himself the president of Niger on Friday, a day after a group of soldiers claiming to be the “National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland” said they had overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum and suspended government operations.

A group of soldiers describing themselves as the “National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland” appeared on national television in Niger late Thursday night announcing they had overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum and “suspended” the operations of all government institutions.

In his first speech following the apparent Wagner coup attempt, Vladimir Putin said organisers of the mutiny will be “brought to justice”.

Under the deal announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Prigozhin will go to Belarus, and charges against him will be dropped.

Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko claims he struck a deal with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to stop the group’s march on Moscow.

The Wagner paramilitary forces of Yevgeny Prigozhin have reportedly broken through to the Lipetsk Region, around 230 miles south of Moscow.

Yevgeny Prigozhin refused to surrender amid claims of a coup attempt against the Kremlin and warnings that his forces are marching on Moscow.

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason after declaring herself president.

Members of the Peruvian Marxist terrorist organization Shining Path are involved in the ongoing nationwide wave of protests that erupted in Peru, Peru’s National Police (PNP) revealed this weekend.

Peruvian high court investigative judge Juan Carlos Checkley Soria sentenced the nation’s former president, Pedro Castillo, on Thursday to serve 18 months in preventive prison on charges of “rebellion” and conspiracy to abuse authority.

Harsh words were exchanged in the German parliament yesterday amid calls from various leftist politicians to ban the country’s most successful populist party.

The ongoing riots in Peru by leftist supporters of communist ex-president Pedro Castillo and their disruption of the nation’s supply chain are causing losses of upwards of 100 million Peruvian sol ($26 million) per day to Peru’s economy, Peru’s Economy and Finance Minister Alex Contreras announced on Tuesday.

CARACAS — The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and alleged drug lord Diosdado Cabello accused the United States on Wednesday of being behind the impeachment and arrest of Peru’s far-left president Pedro Castillo.

A German prince was among those arrested by police and is suspected to be a leader of a group wanting to violently overthrow the government. 

Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez fainted during an appearance at a virtual court hearing on Thursday in a trial in which she stands accused of orchestrating a coup d’etat against Bolivia’s socialist government, the independent news agency MercoPress reported on Friday.

Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Bo has pleaded for an end to violence in the country following the brutal massacre of dozens of villagers on Christmas Day.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Friday he recently received intelligence that Russian-backed actors are planning a “coup d’etat in Ukraine” to overthrow his presidency, according to the state-owned Ukrinform news agency.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional economic bloc, suspended the membership of Guinea on Wednesday after a military coup deposed the country’s government on Sunday.

Members of Guinea’s military enacted a coup d’état on Sunday, arresting the West African nation’s president and dissolving the Guinean constitution.

China reaffirmed its stance as a “friendly neighbor of Myanmar” on Monday hours after Myanmar’s military staged a coup, detaining the country’s top government officials and declaring a one-year state of emergency.

The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Monday announced that Russia and Rwanda had deployed military forces in the country to counter an alleged coup d’etat and safeguard the national elections. Russia denied it sent any forces to

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hinted at a plan Thursday to remove President Donald Trump from office using the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called for authority over coronavirus to be handed to an emergency bipartisan group of experts and to Congress rather than President Trump.

At the risk of interfering, the Trump administration should warn Israel not to undermine its claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East.