About 200 West African soldiers in Benin for ‘clean-up’ after failed coup

•Benin says it requested Nigeria’s military intervention to avert civilian casualties•Why Benin’s rebel soldiers failed where others in the region succeeded By Wycliffe Muia (BBC) and Paul Melly (BBC’s West Africa analyst) Some 200 West African soldiers, mainly from Nigeria and Ivory Coast, are in Benin to support the government following Sunday’s failed coup, Benin’s

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