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Is Nigeria using Russia as an excuse for bloody crackdown?
Africa

Is Nigeria using Russia as an excuse for bloody crackdown?

Moscow has benefitted from a series of coups and instability in the region but that shouldn't be a default justification

US fielding new charges of hypocrisy over Kenya
Africa

US fielding new charges of hypocrisy over Kenya

Is the Biden administration downplaying crackdowns because it needs President Ruto's police in Haiti?

Amid election outrage, Senegal struggling not to succumb to 'coup belt'
Africa

Amid election outrage, Senegal struggling not to succumb to 'coup belt'

The country's president is yet another African leader accused of clinging to power, perhaps at all costs

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Africa

Niger coup brings West Africa to brink of war

ECOWAS will convene later this week to decide whether it will militarily intervene to restore the democratically elected government.