Why coups are unsettling West Africa

Dailytrust | 08-12-2025 05:31pm |

By Joshua Odeyemi, Baba Martins, Dalhatu Liman (Abuja) & Salim Umar Ibrahim (Kano) Political analysts, diplomats and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have identified bad governance, sit-tight syndrome, among others, as the reasons for the rising spate of coups in the West African sub-region. This followed the attempted coup in the Republic of Benin on

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