Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave MEXICO CITY — As Nicaragua has marched steadily toward dictatorship in recent years, its government has attacked opposition politicians, the Catholic Church, journalists and universities. Now it’s going after the beauty queens. Just when authorities appeared to have squelched all forms of dissent, a willowy, 23-year-old Nicaraguan, … Read more
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan police said Friday they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government. The charges against pageant director Karen Celebertti would not be out of … Read more
ABUJA, Nigeria — Attacks on Sierra Leone’s main military barracks and prisons were a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest of 13 military officers, the government’s spokesman said Tuesday. The attackers attempted to “overthrow the elected government of Sierra Leone,” Information Minister Chernor Bah said at a briefing to reporters about the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave NIAMEY, Niger — Months after a military coup ousted Niger’s elected president, seen by many here as too close to France, Nigeriens were still celebrating the break with their former colonial power. Abdoulaye Doule, a 46-year-old hospital worker resting on the side of the road, called the … Read more
President Emmanuel Macron says France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country after its democratically elected president was deposed in a coup ByThe Associated Press September 24, 2023, 2:43 PM PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday that France will end its military presence in Niger and … Read more
Presidential historian Jon Meacham selected his phrases very purposefully on “Morning Joe” the morning after Donald Trump’s fourth indictment, saying what Trump tried – and is being indicted for – was plainly a coup d’etat. “You’ve gotten this entire forged of characters who’ve been indicted now in Fulton County who had been trying – and … Read more
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Touch upon this storyComment Mohamed Bazoum, the deposed president of Niger, might face treason fees, the junta that unseated him final month introduced, marking a brand new escalation in tensions with neighboring international locations which are pondering army motion towards the coup leaders. A army intervention would put a whole bunch of Western troopers, together … Read more
NIAMEY, Niger — Days after after mutinous troopers ousted Niger’s democratically elected president, uncertainty is mounting concerning the nation’s future and a few are calling out the junta’s causes for seizing management. The mutineers mentioned they overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, who was elected two years in the past in Niger’s first peaceable, democratic switch of … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment The struggle towards Islamist insurgents in Africa might have suffered a major blow Thursday when military officers within the West African nation of Niger mentioned they had been supporting the leaders of a coup towards the president, a key ally of the US and different Western governments. Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum … Read more