Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...

Bud Werner Library will present a free screening of the Oscar-nominated film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” at 6:30 p.m. on ...

Beginning with Togo in 1963, the majority of Africa’s leaders were more likely to have been brought to power through a military coup than the ballot box. The 1990s brought some positive changes.

The 1990s brought some positive changes. With the end of the Cold War, dozens of African countries experienced ...

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried to avert its unprecedented disintegration.

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African country ...

3 coup-hit West African nations formally leave ECOWAS in an unprecedented disintegration of the regional bloc ABUJA, Nigeria -- 3 coup-hit West African nations formally leave ECOWAS in an ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — 3 coup-hit West African nations formally leave ECOWAS in an unprecedented disintegration of the regional bloc.

We talked with filmmakers and a historian about the tragedy in Wilmington in 1898, who say it's important to look back and ...