Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro has refused to testify during his police interrogation as part of the investigation into an alleged coup d'état following the last presidential election. This silence was not just the application of the constitutional duty of silence, "but a strategy based on the fact that the defence did not have access to all the elements with which the president is accused of having committed certain crimes," said Bolsonaro's lawyer Paulo Bueno. Bolsonaro had been summ
Niger wants to reopen dialogue with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the representative of the junta in power in Niamey told his neighbours at the Peace and Security Forum in Lomé, Togo. Sent to Lomé to represent Niger, General Mohamed Boubacar Toumba said the country was open to a renewed dialogue with its partners within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).Toumba has been Niger's Minister of the Interior and Decentralisation since the coup d'état of 26
Niger wants to reopen dialogue with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the representative of the junta in power in Niamey told his neighbours at the Peace and Security Forum in Lomé, Togo. Sent to Lomé to represent Niger, General Mohamed Boubacar Toumba said the country was open to a renewed dialogue with its partners within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).Toumba has been Niger's Minister of the Interior and Decentralisation since the coup d'état of 26
BRASILIA (Reuters) -A Brazil congressional probe into the Jan. 8 insurrection by thousands of Jair Bolsonaro's supporters on Wednesday recommended that the far-right former president and some of his closest allies be charged with an attempted coup d'état and other crimes. After months of hearing witnesses and probing the events surrounding the invasion of government buildings in Brasilia just days after leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office, lawmakers approved Senator Eliziane Gama's final report. On Tuesday, Gama, the rapporteur of the inquiry, had recommended that Bolsonaro should face charges of criminal association, political violence, disrupting the democratic order and an attempted coup d'état.
Burkina Faso's military government announced Wednesday that Burkinabe intelligence and security services foiled a coup attempt. Burkina Faso's transitional government announced in a statement, read out on state television late Wednesday by junta spokesman Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo, that a "proven coup attempt" was foiled on Tuesday.