The main legal backing justifying Tinubu’s intervention in Benin or any future intervention comes from two key regional frameworks: the ECOWAS Protocols and the African Union (AU) Constitutive Act. Both documents were created because the continent has suffered too many post-colonial coups and conflicts caused by unconstitutional grabs for power.

Earlier Sunday, a group of soldiers appeared on Benin's state TV to announce the dissolution of the government in an apparent coup, the latest of many in West Africa.

DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved people. The Grammy-winning performer's acquisition of ...

A group of soldiers on Benin's national television claimed to have seized power in the West African nation on Sunday, the latest threat to democratic norms in the unstable region. "The army solemnly commits to give the Beninese people the hope of a truly new era,