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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Tinubu, 2023 Presidential Election, and Impending National Disaster

Posted on Mon 19 April 2021 in Nigeria • Tagged with Buhari, Tinubu, Asiwaju, APC, Igboho, IPOB, Insecurity, Jagaban

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (5980497975)

By Shamsudeen Kareem

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," is a line from "The Second Coming" written by the Romantic poet, Williams Butler Yeats, on an entirely different subject matter. But at a closer look, one would see that this line resonates more than ever with the current happenings …


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