Buenos Aires, Argentina – It felt like she had run out of doors to knock on. It was 1977, and Argentinian teacher Taty Almeida had grown desperate. No one seemed able or willing to help her find her missing son, Alejandro, a 20-year-old medical student and political activist. He was last seen on a street … Read more
CONAKRY, Guinea — The Supreme Court in Guinea on Sunday upheld the election victory of Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, cementing the junta leader’s transition to a democratically elected president four years after staging a coup in the West African nation. Doumbouya won the country’s first election since the 2021 coup after polling 86.7% of the votes, … Read more
Exiled former President Andry Rajoelina condemns takeover and refuses to step down despite defections in the security forces. Published On 20 Oct 202520 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Madagascar’s coup leader Colonel Michael Randrianirina, who seized power this month after Gen Z-driven protests forced the former president out the … Read more
Madagascar’s Gen Z protesters are declaring victory this week after President Andry Rajoelina fled the country and Colonel Michael Randrianirina declared himself president. This comes after young people led weeks of antigovernment protests. But with military leaders taking control and government institutions suspended, is this really the change Madagascar’s Gen Z wants for their country? … Read more
Published On 22 Sep 202522 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Brazil’s prosecutor general has charged federal lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro with coercion in a case linked to the one in which his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, was convicted for plotting a coup. The younger Bolsonaro has “repeatedly sought to … Read more
Their death sentences over the botched 2024 coup effort have been commuted to life imprisonment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United States citizens convicted for taking part in a failed coup attempt last year, reducing their punishments to life imprisonment. Tshisekedi issued the … Read more
The Bolivian general accused of leading a failed coup was sent Saturday to a maximum-security prison as he faces charges of terrorism and starting an armed uprising. “At some point the truth will be known,” a handcuffed Gen. Juan José Zúñiga told journalists as he was escorted by two guards to the vehicle that will take him … Read more
Those charged were part of 85 people arrested in connection with the attempted coup in Sierra Leone on November 26. Sierra Leone authorities have charged 12 people including a member of former President Ernest Bai Koroma’s security detail, with treason in connection with a failed coup in November, the government said on Tuesday. The accused … Read more