Analysis: Africa and rising threat of proxy wars

Over the past three years, a quartet of successful coup d’états have taken place in West Africa, a region historically acknowledged for its predilection towards military uprisings. Mutinous soldiers have overthrown the presidents of Mali (August 2020 and May 2021), Guinea (September 2021), Burkina Faso (January and September 2022) and Niger (July 2023). The coup […]

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