Popular protests and unconstitutional change of government/Coups in #Africa

AfriCan Geopardy

According to the Lexico online dictionary, a coup is a sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power from a government. The coup in Mali which took place on 18th August 2020, is the third in Africa in the past three years (Sudan, 11th April 2019 and Zimbabwe, 15th November 2017). The African Union's position about unconstitutional changes in government has led some AfriCans to ask, whether it is the African Union's job "protect people from authoritarian regimes or to protect authoritarian regimes from their people?". On this episode, our guest, Dr Mohamed Diatta, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies notes among other things that to there is an urgent need to address the real feeling among African's that, political change can only occur through popular protests and military interference. He also warned that the longer the situation in countries like Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire to fester, there is a real chance for instability to spread in those countries. Do listen, reflect and share.