Posted on 01/31/2022 7:52:38 AM PST by Cronos
In the past 18 months military leaders have toppled the governments of Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan and now, Burkina Faso. West African leaders on Friday called an emergency summit on the situation in Burkina Faso, where the new military leader, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, told the nation in his first public address that he would return the country to constitutional order “when the conditions are right.”
The resurgence ofcoups has alarmed the region’s remaining civilian leaders. Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Friday, “It represents a threat to peace, security and stability in West-Africa.”
First came Mali, in August 2020. The military took advantage of public anger at a stolen parliamentary election and the government’s failure to protect its people from violent extremists, and arrested President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and forced him to resign on state television. Mali actually had two coups in a nine-month span.
An unusual coup unfolded in Chad in April 2021. A president who had ruled for three decades was killed on the battlefield, and his son was quickly installed in his place — a violation of the Constitution.
In March 2021, there was a failed coup attempt in Niger, then in September 2021, it was Guinea’s turn: A high-ranking officer trained by the United States overthrew a president who had tried to cling to power. Then in October, it was Sudan’s: The country’s top generals seized power, tearing up a power-sharing deal that was supposed to lead to the country’s first free election in decades.
That’s more than 114 million people now ruled by soldiers who have illegally seized power. There were four successful coups in Africa in 2021 — there hadn’t been that many in a single calendar year since 1999. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called it “an epidemic of coup d’états.”
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😆 that’s what I got when I asked Siri about that acronym. Something got lost in translation here.
Why not?
This has been going on since the European countries de-colonized.
Mostly areas where we have deployments
Seriously?? Africa reshuffles the national deck chairs so often that it’s actually a good metric to use when you look at an old globe or map. I love old globes - and the first place I look is Africa to help me narrow down the date.
You mean like packaged meals?
Thank you for the link.
I think it’s meals to go = Togo
I sent that to a South African emigre friend a few years ago, and he agreed heartily with most if not all of that. He bailed out a couple decades ago. His wife won’t even consider going back to visit.
I mean like meals Togo, of course; if you're Ghana have a Netflix night because you've Benin work all day, you don't want to have to cook your own dinner. Good golly, Miss Mali...
I think this might be the opposite. One way to get from under deals with the Chinese is to have the government fall, the new government makes the old treaties non-binding, and the CCP has to pay again to the new overlords.
Unless the old government was killed, they will redo the favor in five to ten years. Look at Maada Bio in Sierra Leone for that hat trick.
Did you not read your own article?
Stolen elections, lack of security, people trying to stay in power after they should have left and in one case, an orderly succession from dead father to son.
You may not like it but that is the way they do things in many countries.
The military is the reset button for when things go wrong.
It is the way the Roman Empire worked.
Even South Africa...the most affluent,and advanced,nation in Africa...is a 4th World hellhole when you travel outside a few white enclaves in suburban Johannesburg and a few other cities. I know...I’ve been there...recently.
Last time Obama was President, revolutions/coups in various places. Then Europe was flooded by many thousands upon thousands of savages.
“the new military leader, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, told the nation in his first public address that he would return the country to constitutional order “when the conditions are right.
I wonder when WE will return to constitutional order.
That is the question, isn’t it?
This is why it is important to have leaders that look like the people
Hmm...people get mad about that sort of thing, eh? Something for them to ponder over at the NYT.
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