The public, tired of the betrayal of trust by politicians, corruption, lack of accountability and the politics of exclusion, doesn’t seem to care any more who is in charge — soldiers or civilians. In fact, there is a dangerously growing nostalgia for ...
There is a fire in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. And who can predict where it will spread to next? For the second time in eight months, the military in Burkina Faso struck in a palace coup, removing the military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
To achieve that from his Togo hideout seems far-fetched. But if we keep in mind the current fragile state of Burkina Faso, which has been the scene of two coups in eight months, out of five coups in the subregion in two years, then there just might be cause to worry. Africa is playing with fire and doing so when the world has too many problems of its own to care about the continent.
The greater danger is not only in what is missing but also in what is filling the gap. Where there was public outrage at military coups a decade or more ago, now there is growing acceptance of the aberration as the norm.Although the successful elections in Kenya have been a bright spot, Africa, as they say, is largely on its own. Global institutions or countries that might have intervened to mitigate the rising cases of unconstitutional changes in governments are facing a crisis of comorbidity.
They are exploiting long-standing poverty, corrupt leadership and local animosities to unleash a reign of terror from Mali to Chad and from Niger to the northern parts of Nigeria. With one-fifth of governments in west Africa currently under military rule, the subregion is once again a painful reminder of its ragged past.
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