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Bolivia Wrestles With 'the Weirdest Coup Attempt'

Real or fake, one expert says the nation's democracy remains fragile

(Newser) - Supporters of Bolivia's president rallied outside his palace in La Paz on Thursday, giving political breathing room to the embattled leader as authorities made more arrests in what he called a failed coup a day earlier. The government announced that 17 people had been arrested, including the army chief,...

CIA Admits Coup It Backed in 1953 Was Undemocratic

Iran coup overthrew democratically elected PM

(Newser) - While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times—the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 US Embassy seizure in Iran—the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well. The CIA now officially describes the...

Officers Seize Power, Arrest President in Gabon
Africa Sees Another Coup
Aug 30, 2023 6:25 AM CDT

Africa Sees Another Coup

Military officers seize power in Gabon, put president under house arrest

(Newser) - Gabon's diplomatic government appears to be falling along with what the New York Times calls "one of Africa's most enduring political dynasties." Military officers in Gabon appeared on television early Wednesday, less than an hour after President Ali Bongo Ondimba was declared to have won a...

Niger's Overthrown President: 'I Write This as a Hostage'
Niger's President:
'I Write This as a Hostage'
OPINION
Aug 4, 2023 6:28 AM CDT

Niger's President: 'I Write This as a Hostage'

Mohamed Bazoum warns of 'devastating consequences' if coup isn't quashed

(Newser) - The overthrown president of Niger, detained by soldiers at the presidential palace in Niamey for the past week, is speaking out via the Washington Post . "I write this as a hostage"—"one of hundreds of citizens who have been arbitrarily and illegally imprisoned," reads the message...

6 African Nations Now Form a Continent-Wide 'Coup Belt'

From Sudan in the east to Guinea in the west

(Newser) - Take a map of Africa, shade in the nations that have had military coups over the last few years, and you'll see the pattern: It's what Declan Walsh in the New York Times calls a "coup belt" stretching across the entire continent. It goes from Guinea on...

West Africa Gives Niger Coup Leaders an Ultimatum

They have 7 days to reinstate President Mohammed Bazoum

(Newser) - West African nations have given Niger's coup leaders one week to reinstate President Mohammed Bazoum. Should that not come to pass, "the use of force" could follow, warned the 15-nation regional bloc known as ECOWAS on Sunday. The development came two days after the soldiers who staged the...

Coup Leaders Introduce Niger's New Ruler

Commander of presidential guard, which is detaining the president, will run transitional body

(Newser) - The soldiers who staged a coup returned to TV on Friday, telling Niger that the commander of the presidential guard is the nation's new leader. Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, who also spoke to the nation on Wednesday to announce the overthrow , said on state television that Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani...

Niger Soldiers Tell Nation They 'Put an End to the Regime'

President Mohamed Bazoum apparently is being held by guards

(Newser) - A group of soldiers in Niger said Wednesday on national TV that they had successfully carried out a coup—suspending all national institutions and closing the nation's land borders. Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, with nine uniformed men standing behind him, announced that the constitution is no longer in effect,...

Soldiers Arrest President in West African Coup

Junta says it now controls Burkina Faso

(Newser) - More than a dozen mutinous soldiers declared Monday on state television that a military junta now controls Burkina Faso after they detained the democratically elected president following a day of gun battles in the capital. Capt. Sidsore Kaber Ouedraogo said the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration would work to...

Prime Minister Reaches Deal With Military

Hamdok will be reinstated after Sudan's coup, but pro-democracy groups oppose the deal

(Newser) - Sudan's deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will see him reinstated, almost a month after a military coup put him under house arrest. A key pro-democracy group that has mobilized dozens of protests had dismissed the deal as "a form of betrayal....

Troops Fatally Fire Into Pro-Democracy Protesters

At least 5 demonstrators are killed in Sudan

(Newser) - Sudanese security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas on Saturday to disperse protesters denouncing the military's tightening grip on the country, killing at least five and wounding several, activists said. The violence came as thousands of pro-democracy protesters yet again took to the streets across Sudan to rally...

US Warns It Will Pull Aid to Sudan After Apparent Coup

PM Abdalla Hamdok reportedly arrested, taken to an undisclosed location

(Newser) - Update: It wasn't clear early Monday whether military forces surrounding the home of the Sudanese prime minister were protecting him or going after him, but the nation's Ministry of Information and Hamdok's economic adviser now say the PM has been arrested and whisked away in what CNN...

Trial Begins in Killing of 'Africa's Che Guevara'

Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara was assassinated in 1987

(Newser) - In Burkina Faso, more than a dozen people went on trial Monday accused of involvement in the assassination of the leftist leader who gave the West African country its name. Thomas Sankara, often called "Africa's Che Guevara," changed the country's name from Upper Volta as part...

Myanmar General Announces He's Prime Minister Now
General: I'm Prime Minister Now
Aug 1, 2021 11:00 AM CDT

General: I'm Prime Minister Now

Myanmar's ruler promises elections in 2 years

(Newser) - Six months after seizing power from the elected government, Myanmar's military leader on Sunday declared himself prime minister and said he would lead the country under the extended state of emergency until elections are held in about two years. "We must create conditions to hold a free and...

Poet's Widow Says Junta Removed His Organs

She says Khet Thi died after Myanmar regime hauled him in for interrogation

(Newser) - "They shoot in the head, but they don’t know the revolution is in the heart," poet Khet Thi wrote after the military coup in Myanmar. His widow says the junta brought him in for interrogation Saturday and returned his corpse the next day—with the organs removed....

Myanmar Military Cuts Off Internet Service

Human Rights Watch says junta has disappeared hundreds of coup opponents

(Newser) - Myanmar's wireless broadband internet services were shut down on Friday by order of the military, a local provider said, as protesters continued to defy the threat of lethal violence to oppose the junta's takeover. A directive from the Ministry of Transport and Communications on Thursday instructed that "...

Soldiers Kill 7-Year-Old in Her Own Home in Myanmar

20 children thought to be among at least 275 people killed since Feb. 1

(Newser) - More deaths were reported in Myanmar on Tuesday, including that of a 7-year-old girl reportedly shot in her father's arms. Soldiers were raiding homes in Mandalay to look for opponents and weapons when they kicked down the family's door, asking the father whether anyone else was at...

Report: Security Forces Kill 34 Anti-Coup Protesters

That's the highest death toll since Feb. 1 military takeover in Myanmar

(Newser) - Myanmar security forces dramatically escalated their crackdown on protests against last month’s coup, killing at least 34 protesters Wednesday in several cities, according to accounts on social media and local news reports compiled by a data analyst. That is highest daily death toll since the Feb. 1 takeover, exceeding...

UN Says 18 Killed in Myanmar Crackdown

And about 1,000 are believed to have been detained Sunday

(Newser) - Security forces in Myanmar opened fire and made mass arrests Sunday as they sought to break up protests against the military’s seizure of power , and a UN human rights official said it had “credible information” that at least 18 people were killed and 30 were wounded, the AP...

Facebook Bans All Accounts Linked to Myanmar Military

Pro-military marchers attack anti-coup protesters

(Newser) - Social media giant Facebook announced Thursday it was banning all accounts linked to Myanmar’s military as well as ads from military-controlled companies in the wake of the army’s seizure of power on Feb. 1. It said in a statement that it was treating the post-coup situation in Myanmar...

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