It is now clear that the thwarted coup in Cotonou was much more violent than first reported and determinedly targeted Benin’s President Patrice Talon and the most senior...

An Africa Confidential Special Report By Josef Skrdlik and Andrew Weir

In the short term, the crisis triggered by Boko Haram's kidnapping of more than 230 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State damages all those involved in addition to...

Millionaire bankers make improbable revolutionaries, especially in Nigeria. But Peter Obi, the geeky former governor of Anambra state, is upending the political establishment's complacency about next year's presidential...

The first stage of President Olusegun Obasanjo's operation 'Restore Hope' against Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is over with the impeaching of the beleaguered Governor by the State's...