In September 2024, authorities in Benin detained the country’s former sports minister and a prominent businessman for allegedly plotting a coup against the West African nation’s president, Patrice ...

The recent coup d’état in Gabon marks the latest casualty of the “coup contagion” spreading across Africa. Given the frenetic pace of the minute-by-minute news cycle of the social media era, it’s easy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. August 2025 makes it five years since Malian soldiers ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in a coup d’état. While the event ...

There have been a spate of coups in Africa over the last 18 months. Most of these coups have taken place in West Africa, but not all. This includes Burkina Faso, Guinea, Chad, Sudan and two coups in ...

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THE COUP D’ETAT has grown out of fashion. In 1980 there were 19 coups or attempted coups around the world, according to the Centre for Systemic Peace (CSP), an American think-tank, or roughly one ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. For the third time in only five months, violence has facilitated a transfer of ...

The latest blow to democracy is the explosion of coups around the world. Weak democratic governments that are failing to deliver are being overthrown. This global phenomenon has been most evident in ...

Six decades later, most of these countries have yet to establish functioning democratic systems that deliver prosperity for their people. In 2020 the Democracy Index classified only one country on the ...

“Eight countries, a common destiny.” These days, the motto of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) – which unites Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, ...