West Africa grapples with new wave of military coups

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — It’s a pattern becoming all too common again in West Africa: Mutinous soldiers detain a president, then seize control of the state broadcaster to announce they’ve taken over the country. International condemnati

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