Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Damiba. In September, Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, the head of an artillery unit of Burkina Faso army, ousted Damiba on the same pretext as the earlier coup — deteriorating security.

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim they had seized power.

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Nigeria, the African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday swiftly condemned an attempted military takeover in the Benin Republic, which saw soldiers briefly seize control of the national television station in Cotonou.

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Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has urged African countries to take decisive action to stop Russian schemes that lure young people across the continent into fighting in the war against Ukraine, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi.