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Paul Gregoire argues that against the backdrop of Russia's war in Ukraine and the undermining of the post-WWII United Nations system by Israel and its Western allies, the people’s revolt in West Africa takes on global significance.
The Economic Community of West African States, on Wednesday, said it would deploy "all means necessary" to restore constitutional order in the Republic of Niger amid coup fears.
West Africa has recently been rocked by military uprisings. In the past three years, rogue soldiers have overthrown the presidents of Mali (August 2020 and
JNIM, an al-Qaeda affiliated group fighting against the military junta in Mali, claimed to have captured a Russian Wagner soldier during fighting in the south of the country earlier this month.
The 24 January military coup that overthrew Burkina Faso’s president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré comes amid a deepening security crisis in the country. Both civilians and defence and security forces have long voiced their discontent, including with Kaboré’s political stewardship. This is also West Africa’s fourth coup in less than two years. Kaboré’s deposition follows those of former Malian presidents Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and Bah N’Daw in August 2020 and May 2021 respectively, and that of former Guinean president Alpha Condé in S...