This week, I am attending a conference in Sao Tome on the persistence of the threat of coups and other forms of unconstitutional change of government (UCG) organised by the United Nations Office for Central Africa. Since 2020, at least seven countries have faced UCGs, including the recent case in Central Africa, Gabon in 2023; while in West Africa, four countries have been affected: Mali twice in 2020 and 2021, Guinea in 2021, Burkina Faso twice in 2022 and Niger in 2023; and in East Africa…
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