in West Africa to experience a military coup when on 13 January 1963 Togolese soldiers, recently demobilised from the French colonial armies and facing unemployment as a result of refusal of their applications to join the miniscule Togolese army, staged an armed coup that led to the ...
* Leaders of West African countries are expected to meet on Thursday in the Nigerian capital Abuja to discuss their response to a military coup in Niger. * All countries in the Sahel region are suffering the consequences of the Libyan war. * Regional countries and the international community ar...
“I have always monitored how much exposure I have in West Africa and in each country in the region because there is more risk and this coup reminds you of that,” a London-based gold investor said, who did not want to be identified. The military coup took place in the capital Bamako,...
It was a tremendous coup for the local paper to get an exclusive interview with Prince Charles. 当地报纸能独家采访到查尔斯王子是破天荒的成功。I got him to come to a party, which was something of a coup.我说服了他来参加聚会，实属意外之得。coupnoun [ C ] (TAKE POWER) UK /ˌkuː...
expelled or recalled Departure of French military forces after coup or arrival of Russian private military group Wagner, since 2020 Base or military detachment ... in an uncertain context ... sometimes contested... Advertisement - Scroll to Continue French military presence......
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou said ECOWAS delayed the implementation of sanctions on Guinea following a military coup last year because the Guinean leaders had asked for some time to present a timetable for transition. ...
Students boycotted classes to protest the military coup that had led to the death of the populist leader Thomas Sankara.ReferencesOxford Companion to Politics of the World, 96-7; Rough Guide to West Africa, 625; A History of Africa, 517; Africa Since 1800, 291; Democratic Experiments in ...
and those in Spain itself starting exactly a day later, so control of Spanish Morocco could be achieved and forces sent to Iberia from Morocco to coincide with the risings there.[54] The rising was intended to be a swift coup d'état, but the government retained control of most of the ...
Britain's desire to mend Anglo-Egyptian relations in the wake of the coup saw her strive for rapprochement throughout 1953 and 1954. Part of this process was the agreement, in 1953, to terminate British rule in Sudan by 1956 in return for Cairo's abandoning of its claim to suzerainty ...
it back on to the ‘right path’. US foreign policy makers hoped that a successful democratic experiment in the country would ultimately help steer it away from China. But that transition was put on ice as the Rohingya crisis developed, and now, with the coup, it has been ended completely...