The Sahel coups are against conditions of life afflicting most of the region's people, writes Vijay Prashad conditions created by theft of sovereignty by multinationals and the old colonial ruler.
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
On Sept. 30, Captain Ibrahim
Wilfried Balima (Burkina Faso), Les Trois Camarades (‘The Three Comrades’), 2018. On 30 September 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré led a section of the Burkina Faso military to depose Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power in a coup d’état in January. The second coup was swift, with brief clashes in Burkina Faso’s capital
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