When Gabon’s longtime leader was detained in the latest coup in Africa last week, France condemned the takeover but did little to intervene — despite having hundreds of troops in the country. It was a striking break from the past. Read more…
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Russia has likely proposed that North Korea participate in three-way naval exercises with China, according to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing with the director of South Korea’s top spy agency Monday. The briefing came days after Russia’s Ambassador Read more…
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced on Sunday a plan to replace Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov. The decision will be considered by the country’s parliament next week, Zelensky said in a video address. The president proposed Rustem Umerov, the current head of Read more…
The military confrontation in Ukraine has reached a point where it could easily spiral into a full-blown conflict between Russia and NATO, Moscow’s deputy envoy to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said on Friday. The diplomat blamed the US-led military bloc’s Read more…
Military and security analysts are beginning to pay more attention to presidential guards across a growing number of African countries who are wielding as much power as the official heads of the Armed Forces. Though that is how some African Read more…
Multiple attempted attacks by Ukrainian maritime drones on the strategic bridge which links the Crimean Peninsula to the Russian mainland were foiled on Friday evening and early Saturday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry claims. “On September 1, at about 11:15pm Moscow Read more…
Disturbed by the rising wave of coups on the continent, African countries have started reshuffling their military and taking measures to avert it. With Gabon coup leaders saying yesterday that General Brice Oligui Nguema would be sworn in as “transitional Read more…
Niger’s new military rulers have withdrawn the French ambassador’s diplomatic immunity and ordered police to expel him, according to a letter seen Thursday by AFP. The envoy “no longer enjoys the privileges and immunities attached to his status as member Read more…
NATO countries have no right to demand the expulsion of Wagner Group soldiers from Belarus while they host sizable contingents of foreign troops themselves, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday. Speaking at a meeting of the nation’s Security Council, the Read more…
The military in Gabon has named General Brice Oligui Nguema as transition leader, soldiers said on national television. Nguema heads the Gabonese Presidency’s Republican Guard, the country’s most powerful security unit. According to local media reports, Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema, Read more…
President Bola Tinubu has expressed his deep concern over the political situation in Gabon and the socio-political stability in that country. Tinubu’s reaction came hours after a group of Gabonese military officers appeared on television Wednesday announcing they were “putting Read more…
Russian investigators are not ruling out foul play in the plane crash that killed Wagner boss Evgeny Prigozhin, and will consider every possible scenario, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told journalists. “It is obvious that different versions exist and are Read more…