Civilian support for military coups is rising in parts of Africa: why the reasons matter

Posted on Mon 04 September 2023 in Africa • Tagged with Military Coups, Coups, Insecurity, Mali, Chad, Niger, Gabon, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sudan, AU, African Union, ECOWAS

The clamour for coups among citizens is rising. Wikimedia Commons

Carlos García Rivero, Universitat de València

On the night of 13 January 1963, Togo’s President Sylvanus Olympio was shot dead by rebels in the first military coup staged in Africa. A long list, as shown below, was to come …


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Nigeria’s food insecurity: declaring a state of emergency isn’t a real solution - here’s what is

Posted on Mon 31 July 2023 in Nigeria • Tagged with Food security, food insecurity, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Tinubu, India, Kenya, Cameroon, Algeria

In 2022, government launched one million rice paddies, stacked in 15 pyramids, but the country’s food crisis has persisted. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

Stephen Onyeiwu, Allegheny College

Nigerians doing their grocery shopping in July 2023 are paying 25% more for staple items than they did a year …


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