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Benin: Coup Attempt - Benin President Talon Vows to Punish Plotters
Thirteen soldiers were arrested after loyal forces, aided by Nigeria and ECOWAS troops, regained control and ended the attempted military coup.
- On Sunday, soldiers calling themselves the Military Committee for Refoundation seized state television in Cotonou and announced the government dissolved while gunfire was heard, but the minister of interior said the takeover was foiled within hours.
- The recent legislative extension of presidential terms and earlier prosecutions of alleged plotters framed the unrest, with Patrice Talon due to step down next April and last month's Guinea-Bissau coup raising regional stakes.
- Authorities arrested thirteen soldiers, but it is unclear if Lt Col Pascal Tigri was among them, after Nigeria's armed forces helped loyal troops retake state television and public radio signals were restored.
- Benin President Patrice Talon thanked Benin's army leaders for defeating the coup, vowed mutineers would be punished, and pledged to find those still held while expressing condolences to victims.
- ECOWAS ordered regional troop deployments from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Ghana to support Benin's army and called the coup attempt `a subversion of the will of the people of Benin`.
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