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Istanbul, Turkey | AFP | President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey would consider reinstating the death penalty after the attempted coup. “In democracies, decisions are made based on what the people say. I think our government will speak with the opposition and come to a decision,” he …

Ankara, Turkey | AFP | A top army general has been detained over alleged involvement in a coup attempt aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, an official said Saturday. “General Erdal Ozturk, commander of the Third Army, has been detained,” said the Turkish official, speaking on condition of …

Ankara, Turkey | AFP | President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday battled to regain control over Turkey after a coup bid by discontented soldiers, as signs grew that the most serious challenge to his 13 years of dominant rule was starting to falter. After hours of chaos unseen in decades, Erdogan …

By Haggai Matsiko Warning to leaders seeking to unconstitutionally cling onto power Apart from fears Burundi could return to another civil war similar to the 13-year long one that ended in 2006, many point to the Burundi instability as a reminder of what danger lurks when leaders seek to unconstitutionally …

By the Independent Team Bujumbura (Burundi) (AFP) – An attempt to overthrow Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza ended in failure on Friday as coup leaders admitted defeat and were arrested or forced to go on the run from loyalist troops. General Godefroid Niyombare, who launched the coup in the central African …

By the Independent Team Bujumbura (Burundi) (AFP) – Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza arrived back in the country Thursday, a day after a coup was declared while he was in Tanzania for regional talks, his office said. “President Pierre Nkurunziza is now in Burundi,” his senior communications advisor Willy Nyamitwe told …

By Andrew M. Mwenda What Batooro have failed to do about the kingdom and how it forced the king to live in Buganda In early March, David Kijanangoma, a grandson of King George Rukidi III announced that he had overthrown King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba’Iguru Rukiidi IV of the great Kingdom …