Five factors that made the coup against the former Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta more likely The weary-sounding 75-year-old had announced his enforced resignation in a televised statement ...

Junta spokesman Ismaël Wagué speaks during a press conference in Bamako Coup leaders in Mali say they are talking ... among troops about pay and the conflict with jihadists, which has seen ...

Belarus faces global condemnation after grounding an airplane to arrest a dissident journalist; West Africa braces for the fallout from Mali’s second coup in nine months; and the United States ...