Making sense of the coup in Burkina Faso

Published on January 31, 2022

… ), the West African bloc ECOWAS and the African Union (AU) … options for people outside agriculture are to work in … rebels in Mozambique and the Central Africa Republic, or to resolve … Firstly, politics is a rough business, whether democratic or authoritarian. …

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