Les chefs militaires du Mali, du Burkina Faso et du Niger sont arrivés au pouvoir en promettant de venir à bout des insurrections. Or, l'insécurité s'aggrave.
- Nonresident Research Fellow, Rice University
Military leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger came to power promising to defeat the insurgencies plaguing their countries. Instead, insecurity has worsened.
Les régimes militaires, initialement présentés comme des interventions « correctives » temporaires, ont rapidement évolué vers des systèmes de pouvoir personnalisés.
Military regimes have shifted from presenting themselves as temporary ‘corrective’ interventions to becoming personalised systems of rule.
Une fois au pouvoir, les dirigeants militaires ont peu d'intérêt à partager leur autorité.
Once in power, military rulers have little incentive to share authority.
Since 2020, there have been 11 successful coups across Africa, and five thwarted attempts.
The coup sends a signal that electoral rules and constitutional procedures can be overridden by force.
L’élection en Guinée-Bissau met en lumière une crise régionale plus profonde, marquée par l’érosion de la légitimité des dirigeants en place.
What’s at stake in Guinea-Bissau’s election is a wider regional crisis in which incumbents erode legitimacy.
As Malagasy citizens demanded accountability, international institutions conferred legitimacy on a president with dubious democratic credentials.
Cinq ans après la chute du régime malien, le constat s’impose : il faut sortir d’une lecture fragmentée des coups d’État en Afrique.
Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.
Au Gabon, les putschistes utilisent des outils démocratiques pour prolonger leur séjour au pouvoir.
Coup leaders in Gabon are using democratic tools to extend their stay in power.
In the popular imagination, coups d'etat are strictly military-led, palace conspiracies. In reality, a majority of them have required civilian participation.
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