The Coup in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. Burkina Faso became a French colony in the year 1896. It got its independence as Upper Volta in 1960; the name Burkina Faso...
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Myanmar shadow government calls for revolt against military rule
Myanmar’s shadow government, formed by opponents of military rule, called for a revolt against the junta on Tuesday, setting out a strategy that included action by armed militias and ethnic forces and urging bureaucrats...
Soldiers say Guinea constitution, gov’t dissolved in apparent coup
Soldiers who staged an uprising in Guinea’s capital on Sunday said in a short broadcast on the West African nation’s state television that they have dissolved the constitution and the government in an apparent...
Myanmar’s Military coup, Power-transition & State of Emergency
The first day of February staggered Southeast Asia after Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar, was detained together with other key officials of her governing party in a morning raid by military calling...
African Civil-Military Relations in a Democratic Age
The relationship between political leadership, military and society is always complex and is not very harmonious. This complex nature has existed right from the evolution of mankind i.e. from the time the society had...
27 July 1990: Trinidad’s Brush with Violent Jihad
On Friday, July 27, 1990, Trinidad experienced its own day of infamy when a radical Afro-Trinidadian Islamist group, the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, led by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, an Afro-Trinidadian convert to Islam previously known as...
Rajapaksa Rejected : Sri Lankan MP’s pass a no confidence motion
Following phase one of the constitutional crisis, Sri Lanka has entered the next phase. As the plot thickens and the ‘heads of the country’ make decisions for their naked self-interests, Sri Lankans watch while...
Lula declares his presidential candidacy from jail: The destiny of Brazil is in the ballot box and not the coups
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva became the President of Brazil in 2002 when he won the elections with a clear majority. The reason for such a clean sweep was his progressive development manifestation...
Diamonds, Mugabe, and the Crocodile: A coup that happened in Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa and his faction have control over the highly productive farms, mining, diamond businesses and access to foreign reserves. But to maintain themselves in power, they needed the control of ZANU-PF to win the...
