Sahel Chronicles
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For decades, this small West African country was the example. No coups since 1972. Peaceful transfers of power. A working democracy in a region where strongmen ruled. Then, in December 2025, gunshots cracked through the capital. A group of mutinous soldiers stormed the state TV and declared a new era. They said the government had failed them. That their brothers were dying in the north, fighting jihadists, while politicians in the south rewrote the constitution. By noon, it was over. Loyal forces crushed the coup. Nigeria sent jets. The president, Patrice Talon, appeared on camera looking calm. Crisis averted. Democracy saved? Not exactly. Here's what they are not telling you about the coup in Benin Republic.
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Something strange is happening in northern Mozambique. On the coast of Cabo Delgado, a small fishing town called Mocímboa da Praia was once quiet, isolated, and largely ignored by the world. But in 2017, armed men stormed the town in the middle of the night, attacking police stations and killing civilians. At first, people thought it was a local gang. It wasn’t. Those fighters later pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. And suddenly, Mozambique, a country thousands of kilometers from Syria and Iraq, became home to ISIS’s fastest-growing insurgency in Africa. But what is behind this crisis?
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In July 2023, a quiet shift began in Cotonou, Benin Republic. The EU announced over €63 million in new budget support. France moved to deepen military cooperation. Washington updated its assessment, calling Benin an “emergent security partner.” All these happened just when Chinese engineers were finishing a massive export pipeline connecting Niger’s oil fields to the Atlantic at the Port of Sèmè. Are these coincidences or what is really happening in Benin Republic?
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