US EditionBenin Says Coup Attempt Foiled After Soldiers Seize State TV
Loyalist forces swiftly regained control after a mutiny by the Military Committee for Refoundation; 14 soldiers were arrested, and the regional bloc ECOWAS prepared troop deployment.
- The president of Benin, Patrice Talon, condemned a foiled coup bid by mutinous soldiers and said the situation is 'under control' as the mutineers are 'fleeing'.
- ECOWAS troops from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Sierra Leone will be deployed to Benin to 'preserve constitutional order and the territorial integrity' of the country.
- President Talon assured the public to 'calmly go about your activities' as 'security and public order will be maintained throughout the national territory'.
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Why Coups Are Unsettling West Africa
Political analysts, diplomats and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have identified bad governance, sit-tight syndrome, among others, as the reasons for the rising spate of coups in the West African sub-region. This followed the attempted coup in the Republic of Benin on Sunday, which threatened to throw the country into chaos. Benin’s government said it had thwarted the attempted coup, after a group of soldiers announced on state television th…
According to President Talon, a coup attempt in Benin in West Africa was successfully thwarted. Nigeria, the regional power, sends combat aircraft and ground troops to the neighboring country.
A group of military personnel had announced that they had overthrown the leader of the state, who had been ruling for ten years, and the government of the former French colony denied it.
In a televised speech issued this Sunday afternoon, the President of Benin, Patrice Talon, ended the attempted coup d’état recorded in the morning hours in the African country and promised that his executors, still on the run, will respond to justice. “The situation is totally under control,” Talon declared from the presidential palace of Cotonou before ensuring that “this adventure will not go unpunished” after “a group of military personnel, u…
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