Why canΓÇÖt the AU seem to deter coups?

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Why can’t the AU seem to deter coups? 20/10/2020 | 6 MINS This article was originally published on African Arguments on Tuesday 20 October 2020, written by Seth Appiah-Mensah Until the African Union ensures coup leaders don’t benefit personally and ends its incumbent bias, it may struggle to deter “good coups”. This August, Mali became the latest African country to experience a very specific kind of military coup. Since June, protesters had been taking to the streets to call for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign. And on 18 August, a group of soldiers took matters into their own hands. With broad popular support and claiming to be acting in the interests of the people, they stormed the capital Bamako and forced the president to hand over power. Two months later, the military junta and politicians have agreed on an 18-month transitional period. Retired colonel and former defence minister Bah Ndaw has been appointed as the interim president. And the coup leader, colonel Assimi Goïta, is vice-president. This sequence of e

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Why canΓÇÖt the AU seem to deter coups?

20/10/2020 | 6 MINS This article was originally published on African Arguments on Tuesday 20 October 2020, written by Seth Appiah-Mensah Until the African Union ensures coup leaders donΓÇÖt benefit personally and ends its incumbent bias, it may struggle to deter ΓÇ£good coupsΓÇ¥.

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