There can be no auspicious moment to celebrate life, foster humanity and work towards peace or prosperity. Sadly, we live in times where the energies of violence unleashed have sent tremors of anxiety ...

COTONOU, Benin—Perhaps Maj. Gen. Abou Issa should have realized he was facing a coup d’état when a junior soldier punched him in the mouth. The soldier belonged to an emergency unit dispatched to Issa ...