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How Russia is winning in Africa: Wave of military coups gains Putin new allies
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIn neighboring Burkina Faso, another former French colony, Wagner arrived after a military coup in...
America’s democratic system is not as robust as it seems
The Economist· 1 hour agoPRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is a coveted job, at least among a certain type of power-crazed...
Benin blocks Niger oil exports in border row
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoRelations between the two nations soured after the military staged a coup in Niger last year. Benin and other West African nations imposed sanctions on...
Former Fiji prime minister sentenced to prison for interfering in criminal investigation
Fox News· 7 days agoFormer Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for...
US troops’ Niger exit should spur better strategy
Stars and Stripes· 2 days agoNiger is now turning to Russia for help. In a brazen (and potentially dangerous) affront to the United States, the Nigerien government has elected to...
Tunisian lawyers strike to protest legal expert’s arrest as political tensions mount
Semafor via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSonia Dahmani was arrested after taking refuge inside the bar’s association headquarters and...
Murphy's Law: Fatal Reaction to Coups in Africa
Strategy Page· 4 days agoAugust 29, 2023: On July 26th the central African nation of Niger experienced a military takeover of the government. This was condemned by just about every government ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s fire was suddenly extinguished this week. She has made herself irrelevant
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 days agoHer desire to hold onto such power was precisely why she opposed vacating McCarthy when Gaetz pulled...
What Dover really thinks of its hardline Tory MP switching to Labour
Daily Telegraph· 7 days agoWith a healthy majority of 12,278, Elphicke was elected in Boris Johnson’s landslide victory in the...
What the Thai Senate Election Means And Why It’s All Different
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 3 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Thailand has kicked off the process to hold its first Senate election since a coup in...