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Mali gets new prime minister after forced ouster
Mali's interim president has named a replacement prime minister after soldiers behind a coup earlier this year forced out his predecessor and placed ...
Coup era over, Ghana showcases African democracy
The year was 1966 and a 7-year-old boy named John Dramani Mahama was standing by the door of his boarding school, wondering why his father wasn't ...
Sudan says it foils a military coup
Sudanese authorities said they arrested 13 people on Thursday, including the once-powerful head of national security, on suspicion of involvement in ...
Offensive to retake north Mali unlikely till 2013
A planned African-led military offensive to reclaim northern Mali from al-Qaida-linked rebels is unlikely to begin before next year — despite growing ...
Guinnea-Bissau military: 6 killed in failed coup
Military sources said six people were killed when a group of Guinean soldiers attempted to seize control of a military airbase near the capital, ...
Talk of N. Mali intervention grows, no action soon
Before Islamists seized the northern half of Mali, Mamadou Sekere sold masks and jewelry in Timbuktu to European tourists who rode camels and slept ...
UN resolution seeks recovery of Mali's north
The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a plan to back an African-led military force to help the Malian army oust Islamic militants ...
UN report: Gbagbo allies reached out to Islamists
A new report from U.N. experts accuses exiled allies of Ivory Coast's former president of trying to recruit Islamist rebels who took control of the ...
326 convicted in Turkey military coup plot
A Turkish court on Friday convicted 326 military officers, including the former air force and navy chiefs, of plotting to overthrow the nation's ...
Chileans protest their 9-11, the coup anniversary
Activists in Chile marked their own 9-11 Tuesday, the anniversary of the day in 1973 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet seized power in a military coup that ...
Officials in Guinea seize arms destined for Mali
Representatives from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS were meeting with the government of Guinea on Tuesday in order to decide what to do with ...
Mali announces new govt 5 months after coup
Mali's interim leaders announced a new government late Monday, months after a military coup unleashed political chaos that allowed an Islamist ...
Mali president returns home after beating attack
Mali's interim president returned home Friday, two months after seeking medical treatment in France when he was badly beaten by protesters who back ...
US weighs options to drive al-Qaida from Mali
The U.S. is likely to weigh options ranging from military assistance to direct strikes to drive a growing al-Qaida presence out of the coup-wracked ...
Mali leaders agree to help from foreign troops
Mali would welcome a West African military intervention force, not just to help recapture the north from rebels enforcing strict Islamic law but also ...
Ghana VP sworn in hours after president's death
President John Atta Mills' election victory secured Ghana's reputation as one of the most mature democracies in West Africa, a position further ...
Egypt president: 1952 coup fell short on democracy
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of a coup that started decades of military rule, Egypt's new president said Sunday that it failed to bring about ...
Mixed Thai court ruling defuses potential crisis
Thailand's Constitutional Court defused a potential political crisis Friday by dismissing a complaint that the ruling party's attempt to amend the ...
How 1 man derailed 20 years of democracy in Mali
On the morning three months ago when the fate of Mali was irrevocably changed, Mamadou Sanogo awoke in the house here where he and his wife had raised ...
Paraguay's Lugo denounces ouster as president
Fernando Lugo emerged early Sunday to denounce his ouster as Paraguay's president as a "parliamentary coup" and a "foreordained sentence" that was not ...
Paraguay leader tries to quell diplomatic fallout
Paraguay's newly sworn-in president set about forming a new government Saturday as he promised to honor foreign commitments, respect private property ...
Egypt court dissolves Islamist-led parliament
Judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament Thursday and ruled his former prime minister eligible for the ...