Amid the global challenges to building international stability and peace, a crisis increasingly forcing itself to the foreground even amid those of record human displacement, climate degradation and unresolved wars is the plunge by six countries across Africa’s Sahel region into coups d’état and military rule. Eight coups since 2020 have left 150 million people under rule by their armed forces. The latest coup, in Niger, is drawing a heightened international response, and a key player, the 15-nation West African community, today that it will pursue a long campaign of economic and diplomatic pressure, and that it sees military force as a last resort.
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