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Burkina Faso grapples with rising rights abuses two years after military takeover Two years after Burkina Faso’s military seized power in a September 2022 coup, the transitional government has not only failed to restore constitutional order but has systematically crushed civic space. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has condemned the escalating crackdown on […]
The recent detention of three high-profile figures in Bénin on suspicion of orchestrating a “coup d’état” has thrust the issue of President Patrice Talon‘s succession into the spotlight as his final term approaches in 2026. Earlier this week, the prosecutor for the Court for the Repression of Economic Offenses and Terrorism (CRIET) in Bénin announced […]