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Agence France-Presse

Sudan’s military seized power on Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the prime minister, and thousands flooded the streets to protest the coup that threatened the country’s shaky progress toward democracy. The military power grab was the latest in a series of coups across the continent over the last decade.
Guinea, 2021
Elite troops led by lieutenant-colonel Mamady Doumbouya take over the impoverished West African state in September, arresting 83-year-old President Alpha Conde.
The veteran became Guinea’s first democratically-elected president in 2010 after spending years in jails at the hands of previous juntas.
But last year he sparked fury by changing the constitution so he could run for a third term.

Mali, 2020, 2021
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is overthrown in August 2020 after several months of street protests in the troubled West African nation which is threatened by an Islamic insurgency.
Then in May this year the military takes over yet again after the civilian leaders of an interim government remove soldiers from some key posts.
Army strongman Colonel Assimi Goita survives an assassination attempt on July 20 at a Bamako mosque.
Under international pressure, the colonel vows to hold free elections by February.
Sudan, 2019
Dictator Omar al-Bashir’s 30 years in power are terminated by the army in April 2019 after a four-month street revolt sparked by the price of bread tripling.
More than 250 people die in the protests. A transition council of military and civil society leaders is formed in August 2019 and a civilian prime minister appointed the following month.

Zimbabwe, 2017
Robert Mugabe, who had led the country with an iron fist for the 37 years since independence, falls in 2017.
He is ousted by the military and members of his own ZANU-PF party, who replace him with former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mugabe dies in Singapore two years later aged 95.
Burkina Faso, 2015
Less than a year after the fall of president Blaise Compaore after a popular revolt, Michel Kafando is overthrown as president in a coup led by his own presidential guard in 2015.
Less than a week later Kafando is back in power after the coup leaders fail to gather support, until elections are held in November.
Central African Republic, 2013
Rebels from a Muslim-dominated coalition called Seleka stormed the capital Bangui in 2013 and ousted Francois Bozize, a Christian who had seized power a decade earlier.
Seleka leader Michal Djotodia declared himself president.
The country descended into sectarian chaos pitting Seleka rebels against vigilante self-defence groups from the Christian and animist majority known as anti-Balaka.
Egypt, 2013
The military ousts Egypt’s first democratically-elected leader, the Islamist Mohammed Mursi, in 2013 after huge demonstrations against his one year in charge.
The general who led the bloody putsch, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, becomes president and begins a brutal crackdown on dissent that is still going on.
Guinea Bissau, 2012
Troops led by General Antonio Indjai oust interim president Raimundo Pereira and former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior between two rounds of a presidential poll in 2012.
It is the fourth coup since independence from Portugal in 1974.


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A look at 10 Africa coups in a decade, after Sudan’s second

Guinea's President Alpha Conde being detained by army special forces in Conakry, Guinea in September 2021. Photo: EPA

FILE -- In this Friday, Nov. 17, 2017 file photo, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe officiates at a student graduation ceremony at Zimbabwe Open University on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's presidential spokesman said Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 that former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have traveled to Singapore on their first international trip since he resigned last month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Sudanese security forces in the city of Omdurman during protests against the military coup on Monday. Photo: AFP

Sudan military general Burhan dissolves government, arrests PM Hamdok in ‘coup’

Sudanese protesters jump over a roadblock made of bricks and burning tyres as during a rally in the capital Khartoum. Photo: AFP

FILE PHOTO: Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in Berlin, Germany, February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo/File Photo

Sudanese protesters burn tyres to block a road in 60th Street in the capital Khartoum, to denounce overnight detentions by the army of members of Sudan's government, on October 25, 2021. - Armed forces detained Sudan's Prime Minister over his refusal to support their "coup", the information ministry said, after weeks of tensions between military and civilian figures who shared power since the ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir. (Photo by AFP)

epa09544871 (FILE) - Leader of Sudan's transitional council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan looks on after being sworn in as the Head of the newly formed transitional Council at the presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan, 21 August 2019 (reissued 25 October 2021). Prime Minister of Sudan Abdalla Hamdok was placed under house arrest by a military unit after he refused to support an ongoing coup, according to Sudan's information ministry on 25 October. The ministry also reported several cabinet ministers and civilian members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council were also arrested. This is the second reported military coup after the government on 21 September said it foiled a coup that was attempted by army officers linked to the regime of ousted president Omar Bashir. EPA-EFE/STRINGER *** Local Caption *** 55406796

Sudanese protesters in the capital Khartoum denounce detentions by the army of government members. Photo: AFP

Guinea coup: soldiers seize power, detain president

Alpha Conde, President of the Republic of Guinea, being detained by army special forces in Conakry, Guinea. Photo: EPA

epa09449664 An undated handout photo made available by Guinea military shows Guinean Colonel Mamady Doumbouya in Guinea (issued 05 September 2021). According to several local and international media reports indicate Guinea's President Alpha Conde has been detained by army special forces in Conakry as gunfire was heard on the streets of the centre of Guinea's capital. Guinean Colonel Mamady Doumbouya spoke on a state television broadcast saying President Alpha Conde was in custody and warned people to stay indoors. EPA-EFE/GUINEA MILITARY HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Members of the Armed Forces of Guinea drive through the central neighborhood of Kaloum in Conakry on September 5, 2021 after sustainable gunfire was heard. - Gunfire was heard in Conkary in the morning and troops were seen on the streets, witnesses told AFP. There was no immediate explanation for the incidents in Conakry's Kaloum peninsula, where the presidency, various institutions and offices are located. (CELLOU BINANI/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Mali strongman, leader of two coups, survives knife attack

Security personnel detain an alleged attacker in the back of a vehicle. Photo: AFP

Security personnel escort an alleged attacker (C) from The Grand Fayçal Mosque in Bamako on July 20, 2021, after two assailants attempted to stab Mali's interim transitional President Colonel Assimi Goita during Eid al-Adha prayers at the mosque in the Malian capital. - Mali's interim president Colonel Assimi Goita was "safe and sound", his office said, after an assassination attempt by two men, one wielding a knife, during prayers at a mosque in Bamako. An AFP journalist who witnessed the attack said the assailants lunged at Goita, who was quickly whisked away by security. (Photo by EMMANUEL DAOU / AFP)

Mali's interim president Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of two military coups, arrives to attend the Eid Al Adha prayer at a mosque in Bamako, Mali July 20, 2021.REUTERS/Stringer NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

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Sudan’s military seized power from a transitional government on Monday
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.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} Sudan’s military seized power from a transitional government on Monday It was the tenth coup in Africa – the second for Sudan – in the last 10 years

Sudan’s military seized power from a transitional government on Monday

It was the tenth coup in Africa – the second for Sudan – in the last 10 years