“Coups have become increasingly limited to the poorest countries in the world, and the recent wave of coups fits into that,” he said.īurkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Chad all had less than $20 billion in GDP in 2020, according to a World Bank estimate, while Sudan had a GDP of just over $21 billion. Powell told VOA this is because Africa tends to have many of the conditions that are normally associated with coups. Of 486 attempted or successful coups carried out around the world since 1950, Africa has seen 214, the most of any region, with 106 of them successful, Powell and Thyne’s data show. The latest power grabs in Africa have raised concerns that the region could be backsliding from its progress toward greater democracy. researchers Jonathan Powell and Clayton Thyne at the University of Central Florida and the University of Kentucky, respectively, who consolidated their findings on their Arrested Dictatorshipwebsite. In the 10 years before 2021, there had been on average less than one successful coup per year, according to U.S. He described an “environment in which some military leaders feel they have total impunity” and “can do whatever they want because nothing will happen to them.”Ĭoups in Africa had been declining for much of the past two decades. After Sudan’s coup in October 2021, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke of “an epidemic” of coups, including the events in Africa and a February 2021 coup in Myanmar. The African continent saw a significant increase in coups in the last year-and-a-half, with military figures carrying out takeovers in Burkina Faso, Sudan, Guinea, Chad and Mali. By Megan Duzor and Brian Williamson | VOA News
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