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  West African regional army: Why thousands of soldiers are deploying

  How will strained ties between ECOWAS and neighbours Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso affect the fight against armed groups?

  

• Benin’s opposition loses all parliamentary seats, provisional results show

  

• Benin votes in key parliamentary, local polls a month after thwarted coup

  

• Salah seals Egypt win against Benin as AFCON 2025 quarterfinals awaits

  

• Mane rescues Senegal in draw with DR Congo, as Benin find first AFCON win

  
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  Can Alliance of Sahel States find a way to curb advance of armed groups?

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• Has Benin’s foiled coup made ECOWAS a West African heavyweight once more?

  

• Benin settles after failed coup attempt, but regional concerns remain

  
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  Benin’s real coup already happened under President Talon

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Benin’s foiled coup: How it unfolded and what we know

President Talon pledges severe punishment for coup plotters after army thwarts attempts to overthrow his government.

Nigeria says it deployed jets, troops to Benin to ‘dislodge coup plotters’

Nigeria’s president says he sent fighter jets, troops to Benin to help quell a coup attempt by mutinous soldiers.

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Benin’s gov’t says it thwarted coup attempt after troops declared takeover

Soldiers in Benin appeared on state television to say they had toppled President Patrice Talon and taken power.

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Benin coup attempt updates: Interior minister says coup attempt thwarted

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  It’s a wrap from us

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  Here’s what happened today

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  A timeline of recent coups in Africa

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  The president is likely ‘under high-level security protection’

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Benin’s President Patrice Talon says coup attempt thwarted

President Talon says situation under control after soldiers went on state TV saying he had been removed from power.

‘Mobility tool’ for fighters: Motorbikes keep armed men moving in the Sahel

In Benin and across West Africa, riders viewed with suspicion as motorcycles now synonymous with armed fighters.

UNPACK THE PAST

Remembering Matilda, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

Her name at birth was Abake – meaning ‘born to be loved by all’ among the Tarkar people of Western Africa.

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Why medical support for safe abortion is growing in a post-Roe world

While the right to safe abortion has been restricted in the US, elsewhere, governments are liberalising abortion laws.

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Can the US find new partners in West Africa after Niger exit?

Washington is now seeking a Plan B after troops were ejected from sprawling, expensive bases in Niger.

Dahomey doc on Europe’s looted African art wins Berlin film festival

A documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing Europe’s looted antiquities wins prestigious Golden Bear.

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