West Africa Security Alert: Coup Wave Fuels Region Wide Emergency

West Africa Security Alert: Coup Wave Fuels Region Wide Emergency

West Africa has entered a period of heightened instability as a series of military interventions and attempted overthrows across the region triggers an unprecedented emergency response from the Economic Community of West African States. The regional bloc has warned that several member states now face elevated risks of constitutional disruption, urging coordinated action to protect democratic institutions and prevent a deepening cycle of insecurity. The latest incident involved an attempted power seizure in one West…

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How Environmental Changes Are Fueling Conflict Across Africa

How Environmental Changes Are Fueling Conflict Across Africa

Across the African continent, the effects of climate change are intensifying security challenges, heightening humanitarian pressures, and accelerating displacement on a scale that regional institutions now describe as alarming. Recent assessments by the African Development Bank, United Nations agencies, and environmental research groups indicate that droughts, rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and flooding are driving communities into direct competition over land, water, and grazing routes, while amplifying long standing social and economic grievances. In the Sahel,…

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Coup Attempt in Benin Republic — A Test for Regional Security Architecture

Coup Attempt in Benin Republic — A Test for Regional Security Architecture

COTONOU / LAGOS, December 8, 2025 — A coup attempt in the Republic of Benin was decisively thwarted on Sunday after prompt intervention by loyalist forces, supported by air and ground intervention from neighbouring Nigeria, underlining renewed urgency in West Africa’s regional security collaboration.   Mutiny, Seizure of State Television, and Swift Response In the early hours of December 7, a faction of soldiers identifying themselves as the Military Committee for Refoundation (CMR) appeared on…

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Army Rescues 25 Kidnap Victims, Arrests Suspects in Nationwide Operations

Army Rescues 25 Kidnap Victims, Arrests Suspects in Nationwide Operations

Abuja, Nigeria – December 8, 2025 – In a major security breakthrough over the past 48 hours, the Nigerian Army successfully rescued 25 kidnapped persons and apprehended 10 suspects, following coordinated operations carried out across multiple regions of the country.   Nationwide Sweep According to a credible source at Army Headquarters, the operations spanned the North-East, North-West, North-Central and South-South theatres of operation. The rescued victims include persons abducted in different zones previously plagued by…

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