Just read about this on CNN. The ringleader of the coup plotters had his hand on his gun as he read their speech! Why? As a prop?
I couldn’t imagine, for the life of me, what would possess soldiers to think they can offer an alternative to an existing government, regardless of how awful that government may be???? It is of course possible that the soldiers too ‘governance 101’ or ‘Politics 101’ as part of their military training….
This is turning out to be yet another dark era for Africa, and in particular, West Africa, with coup galore! It seems their armed forces are in desperate need of ‘the role of the armed forces 101’?
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