Benin has placed former defense minister and prominent opposition leader Candide Azannai in pre-trial detention as part of an ongoing investigation into a failed coup attempt earlier this month. Azannai was arrested last week at his party’s headquarters in Cotonou and is accused of plotting against the state and inciting rebellion, despite having publicly condemned…
Former Beninese president Thomas Boni Yayi has strongly denounced Sunday’s failed coup attempt, issuing a firm condemnation in a video posted on Facebook. Boni Yayi, who led Benin from 2006 to 2016 and once chaired the African Union, criticized the attempted overthrow of President Patrice Talon as a “bloody and shameful attack” on the nation….
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday praised the courage and professionalism of Nigeria’s Armed Forces after they responded swiftly to an urgent request from the Government of the Republic of Benin to help thwart an attempted military coup. According to the Presidency, Benin’s government made two formal requests for immediate support after coup plotters struck…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned in strong terms the attempted military takeover in the Republic of Benin, which unfolded early Sunday when a group of soldiers announced that they had removed President Patrice Talon from office. The mutineers, identifying themselves as the Military Committee for Refoundation (CMR), appeared on state…
