Tag: Coup
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ECOWAS holds emergency meeting today
West African leaders hold a key summit on Thursday as a wave of coups buffet a region struggling with poverty and a long history of turbulence. Emergency talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra were triggered after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)…
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Army Seizes Power in Guinea, holds President
Guinean special forces seized power in a coup on Sunday, arresting the president and imposing an indefinite curfew in the west African country. “We have decided, after having taken the president, to dissolve the constitution,” said a uniformed officer flanked by soldiers toting assault rifles in a video sent to AFP. The officer also…