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Coups in Africa: How Democratic Failings Help Shape Military Takeovers – Study

By Ernest Harsch, Researcher, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea and Gabon have all suffered regime change in the last five years, led by men in military uniform. Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau experienced the same fate in 2025. Benin looked to join the list in early December, but the civilian government […]

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Opulence, Unemployment and Jihadism: the Cocktail that Reactivated the Wave of Coups D'état in Africa

The coup is the name of the game in Africa: since 2020 11 successful coups have been recorded, in some cases more than one in the same country, and today seven military governments are functioning. Given the rebel dynamics, the list is only provisional.This is how fluid the military green wave spills over the African continent. Madagascar, in October, and Guinea-Bissau, in November, have just joined the club of the de facto regimes, after the co…

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