Lieutenant Colonel Tigri Pascal was named by the group, which calls itself the Military Committee for Refoundation, as ...

A coup unfolded in West Africa's Benin, as soldiers stormed a live TV news broadcast to declare President Patrice Talon had ...

A statement said AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf “strongly and unequivocally condemns the military coup ...

Benin’s government says a group of mutinous soldiers briefly seized state TV before security forces regained control and ...

During the attempted coup in Benin, West Africa over the weekend, one church dropped everything and began to pray.

COTONOU, Benin -- A group of soldiers has appeared on Benin ’s state TV announcing the dissolution of the government in an apparent coup, the latest of many in West Africa. The group, which called ...

A coup that was announced in Benin has been “foiled,” the interior minister said Sunday in a video on Facebook, but there was no word from the president and sporadic gunshots were heard in parts of ...

A group of soldiers announced Sunday morning on Benin state television to announce the dissolution of the government of President Patrice Talon in an apparent coup, which would have been the latest of ...

Benin's interior minister, Alassane Seidou, said in a statement on Sunday that the West African country's armed forces had ...