CONAKRY (Reuters) -Guinea junta leader Mamady Doumbouya and eight other candidates have been approved to run in next month's ...

The military commander who has ruled Guinea since a coup four years ago has entered the presidential race ahead of next month ...

CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea’s junta leader submitted his bid Monday to be a candidate for the presidential election in December, ...

BISSAU, Guinea Bissau — A group of military officers was arrested in Guinea-Bissau this week for allegedly planning a coup, ...

Guinea’s military ruler Mamady Doumbouya has entered the 2025 presidential race, breaking his earlier pledge not to run after ...

The army in Guinea-Bissau says it has foiled a plot to destabilise the government and arrested several senior military officers accused of attempting to subvert the country’s constitutional order.The ...

WHILE the rest of the world is rising to 21st-century challenges, harnessing science and technology to drive progress, Africa is still battling with leadership succession and coups. In Madagascar, the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Earlier this year, the taps ran dry in the halls of the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar’s hilly ...

Madagascar has sworn in an army colonel as president, just days after a military takeover on the back of a popular rebellion that sent President Andry Rajoelina fleeing into exile. The African island ...

Ignorance in Nigeria, particularly of how the economy works, is more massive than first thought. It astonishes this writer that to some people, Nigerian democracy, which today is even more robust than ...

Madagascar's coup leader Colonel Michael Randrianirina, who was sworn in as president on Friday, named businessman Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo as the country's prime minister Monday. Randrianirina took ...