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2 weeks, 6 days ago

In pictures: South Korea’s history of coups and martial law

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Take: What’s behind the Sahel’s wave of coups?

Al Jazeera

Between 2020-2024, the broader Sahel saw 11 coup attempts. Meanwhile, global powers are shifting, as Russia eclipses France and the United States in the region’s geopolitics. In this episode: Nicolas Haque, Al Jazeera Correspondent Episode credits: This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé and Shraddha Joshi with Hisham Abu Salah, Duha Mossad, Hagir Saleh, and our host Kevin Hirten, in …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Bhopinder Singh | How Army chiefs in Pakistan run ‘Deep State’: Don’t need coups any longer…

Deccan Chronicle

In 1947, the newly-formed militaries of independent India and Pakistan owed their common structures, rules and procedures almost entirely to the former British Indian Army. It also increases the “intervention powers” of Pakistan’s Army Chief, who is looked upon as the sole power which can reverse an executive decision, thereby raising the public esteem of the institution even further. Since …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Bangladesh’s turbulent half-century, from coups to climate shocks

Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh has had a turbulent existence since gaining independence in 1971 following a war with Pakistan. South African President Nelson Mandela, center, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, left, and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wave to a cheering crowd on Bangladesh’s Independence Day celebration in Dhaka Wednesday, March 26, 1997. Police escort former Bangladeshi Prime Minister and Awami …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

'My family has been through 3 coups, we are done saving Bangladesh': Sheikh Hasina's son says she will never come back

Op India

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said his mother would not make a political comeback as she is “deeply disappointed” by the uprising against her leadership despite her efforts for the betterment of Bangladesh, Dhaka Tribune reported. Joy, who served as an official adviser to the former prime minister until Monday, said in an interview with …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Senegal’s President Faye looks to reunite ECOWAS, a bloc split by coups

The Hindu

Senegal’s President Basirou Diomaye Faye, Africa's youngest, is suddenly faced with a huge challenge of reuniting the Economic Community of West African States, a weakened regional bloc that is older than him. The 44-year-old Faye was tasked on July 7 with getting the military junta-ruled Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso back to ECOWAS at the bloc's summit in Nigeria’s capital …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

US military defends Africa strategy in light of coups and a drift toward Russia

Associated Press

AGADIR, Morocco — The head of the U.S. military in Africa vigorously defended the country’s counterterrorism strategy on the continent and vowed to press forward with it despite a wave of criticism and a drift among African nations toward seeking security help from Russia instead. The 6,000 members of the U.S. military stationed in Africa are confronting new setbacks as …

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7 months, 1 week ago

How Russia is winning in Africa: Wave of military coups gains Putin new allies

Salon

Russia's deputy foreign minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, recently visited Sudan, where he met Gen. Abdul-Fattah Burhan, commander of the Sudanese armed forces and ruler of the country, to conveyed Russia's support. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism Last year, a third military coup took place in neighboring Niger, toppling another elected civilian government. …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Russia sends military trainers, air defence system to Niger: State media

Al Jazeera

Violence in the region has worsened since coups in Niger and its neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso. Russian military trainers have arrived in Niger with an air defence system and other equipment as part of the West African nation’s deepening security ties with Moscow, state media reported. Niger’s military government agreed in January to step up military cooperation with Russia, …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Juntas ruling Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso agree to create a joint force to fight worsening violence

The Independent

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Juntas ruling Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso agree to create a joint force to fight worsening violence

Associated Press

BAMAKO, Mali — A joint security force announced by the juntas ruling Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to fight the worsening extremist violence in their Sahel region countries faces a number of challenges that cast doubt on its effectiveness, analysts said Thursday. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou said in a statement after meeting with his counterparts Wednesday that the joint force …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

West African nations flee quickly from the regional bloc that opposed military takeovers following coups

Firstpost

As its ministers convened to discuss the escalating political strain and division in the region, West African regional bloc said on Thursday that the coup-stricken countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are swiftly abandoning the body without adhering to its exit regulations. The ECOWAS bloc refuted claims made by the juntas of the participating countries that their unprecedented decision …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

After coups, West African nations hurry to leave the regional bloc that opposed military takeovers

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria — The coup-hit nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are in haste to quit West Africa’s regional bloc without following its rules of exit, the body said Thursday as its ministers met to deliberate on growing division and political tension in the region. At the ministerial meeting in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, the bloc known as …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

After coups, West African nations hurry to leave the regional bloc that opposed military takeovers

The Independent

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

What is ECOWAS and why have 3 coup-hit nations quit the West Africa bloc?

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria — Monthslong tension between three coup-hit countries in West Africa and the regional bloc known as ECOWAS boiled over when the nations announced their immediate withdrawal from the bloc and accused it of a lack of support and “inhumane” coup-related sanctions. In their joint statement on Sunday, the juntas of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso said that instead …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

The vicious X-rated abuse unleashed on camera and behind the scenes of the revealing new ABC documentary series on the political backstabbing in the Coalition's Canberra coups

Daily Mail

Nemesis, an ABC documentary on the turbulent 2013-2022 Coalition government, is set to reopen some old wounds with the participants' views of each other - and Donald Trump - openly expressed in shockingly foul language. Scott Morrison is labelled 'smug' and an 'arrogant a*******' in a new ABC documentary Mr Turnbull joked that Mr Abbott used the word 'f***' so …

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1 year ago

Vantage | Why West Africa is going soft on Niger's coup leaders

Firstpost

ECOWAS seems to have finally given up on returning the ousted Mohamed Bazoum to power The Economic Community of West African States is a regional grouping of 15 countries; four of these members have been suspended in the last two years because of an epidemic of coups. The military has overthrown the elected government in four ECOWAS member states, namely …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Africa’s coups are part of a far bigger crisis

Hindustan Times

FOR MANY years, coups in Africa seemed a thing of the past. On average across 36 countries more Africans would be willing to consider a military government than would rule it out “if elected officials abused their power”—which they often do. In a poll of 30 countries around the world released last month by Open Society Foundations, an NGO network, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Africa’s coup epidemic: Has democracy failed the continent?

Al Jazeera

The support for military takeovers is growing across Africa, and civilian governments are responsible for that slide, say analysts. “I think it’s largely because of the economic situations within the sub-region, especially in those countries,” Anim, of the Accra-based Policy Initiative of Economic Development Africa, told Al Jazeera. In December 2020, for instance, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo claimed Burkina Faso’s …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Guinea’s leader defends coups in Africa and rebuffs the West, saying things must change

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria — The recent coups in Africa are attempts by militaries to save their countries from presidents’ “broken promises,” the head of Guinea’s junta said Thursday as he rebuffed the West for boxing in the continent of more than 1 billion people. “I want us all to be well aware of the fact that the real putschists, the most …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Season of putsch: Why have coups become popular in Africa?

Al Jazeera

Lagos, Nigeria – Shortly after Ali Bongo, president of Gabon since 2009, was deposed by members of the Republican Guard, his personal security unit, he appeared in a short video, visibly frail and urging people to “make some noise” on his behalf. Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s newly elected president who has been leading regional efforts to return Niger’s Mohammed Bazoum to …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Some in Africa are celebrating the coups. Many are fed up and desperate for change, analysts say

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria — After mutinous soldiers in Gabon announced they had deposed the country’s president, many residents danced in the streets and declared themselves free from the presidential family’s 55-year rule. “The leaders who are supposed to be democrats are not abiding by the rules of democracy … and people are wondering, what is in this system for me?” Research …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Gabon’s wealthy, dynastic leader thought he could resist Africa’s trend of coups. He might be wrong

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — The president of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, knew well the threat of military coups in his part of the world. Now, according to a group of mutinous Gabonese security forces who spoke on state television early Wednesday, he is under house arrest, accused of “unpredictable, irresponsible governance.” The soldiers who claimed authority said people around Bongo had …

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1 year, 3 months ago

SEVENTEEN’s S.COUPS discharged from hospital after successful surgery following knee injury

Hindustan Times

SEVENTEEN leader S. Coups is currently recuperating from his recent knee injury. “On August 10, S. Coups sustained a tear to his anterior cruciate ligament in the left knee during a content shoot. The surgery was a success and S.Coups was discharged from the hospital on Thursday morning the 24 and has been resting since.” S. Coups halts activities for …

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In pictures: South Korea’s history of coups and martial law

The Take: What’s behind the Sahel’s wave of coups?

Bhopinder Singh | How Army chiefs in Pakistan run ‘Deep State’: Don’t need coups any longer…

Bangladesh’s turbulent half-century, from coups to climate shocks

'My family has been through 3 coups, we are done saving Bangladesh': Sheikh Hasina's son says she will never come back

Senegal’s President Faye looks to reunite ECOWAS, a bloc split by coups

US military defends Africa strategy in light of coups and a drift toward Russia

How Russia is winning in Africa: Wave of military coups gains Putin new allies

Russia sends military trainers, air defence system to Niger: State media

Juntas ruling Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso agree to create a joint force to fight worsening violence

Juntas ruling Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso agree to create a joint force to fight worsening violence

West African nations flee quickly from the regional bloc that opposed military takeovers following coups

After coups, West African nations hurry to leave the regional bloc that opposed military takeovers

After coups, West African nations hurry to leave the regional bloc that opposed military takeovers

What is ECOWAS and why have 3 coup-hit nations quit the West Africa bloc?

The vicious X-rated abuse unleashed on camera and behind the scenes of the revealing new ABC documentary series on the political backstabbing in the Coalition's Canberra coups

Vantage | Why West Africa is going soft on Niger's coup leaders

Africa’s coups are part of a far bigger crisis

Africa’s coup epidemic: Has democracy failed the continent?

Guinea’s leader defends coups in Africa and rebuffs the West, saying things must change

Season of putsch: Why have coups become popular in Africa?

Some in Africa are celebrating the coups. Many are fed up and desperate for change, analysts say

Gabon’s wealthy, dynastic leader thought he could resist Africa’s trend of coups. He might be wrong

SEVENTEEN’s S.COUPS discharged from hospital after successful surgery following knee injury