Military rule has deep roots, as my open-access book Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire argues. The coups of the last few years are a return to one of independent Africa's most ...

West African leaders from the regional group ECOWAS on Sunday gave three countries led by military governments six months to ...

They follow the ousting of French forces in recent years by military-led governments in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, where ...

a sign of how private military contractors have proliferated across Africa to lead the fight against armies, rebel groups and Islamist insurgents. Popular disillusionment with long-running United ...

Chad, a longtime Western counterterrorism ally in central Africa, said it is ending military ties with France, the latest country in the troubled Sahel region to break with its former colonial ...