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Gabon’s coup plotters rode on the wave of recent coups in Francophone Africa. But this is a twist of the whole anti-France narrative. According to the Medium’s Fidelis Ndeh-Che, Gabon’s coup was actually a pro-France coup.
#DailyDataCard: Trend of military takeover in Africa and their colonial rulers (2020 – 2023)
The coup and its consequences complicates these situations and limits the country’s chances of forging ahead.
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It would be seen that this latest coup in the Niger Republic was influenced more by a combination of palace politics and ethnic factors than the widely-mouthed reasons.
A new wave of coups in Mali, Guinea, and recently, Burkina Faso, all francophone countries, has reawakened West Africa’s infamous nickname – “Africa’s coup belt”.
On the 23rd of January, the media reported a coup in Burkina Faso. The leaders of the coup blamed poor funding to fight against terrorists in the country as a reason for the coup
