African Union Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===== Coup Belt ===== [[File:Coup belt.svg|200px|thumb|(Map of successful coups in Africa since 2020)]] The term [[Coup Belt]] originated from coups that were staged beginning in the early 2020s, including in [[Mali]] in [[2020 Malian coup d'état|2020]] and [[2021 Malian coup d'état|2021]], [[2021 Guinean coup d'état|Guinea]], [[Mahamat Déby#President of the Transitional Military Council|Chad]], and [[2021 Sudan coup d'état|Sudan]] in 2021, two in [[Burkina Faso]] in [[January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état|January]] and [[September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état|September]] in 2022, and [[Niger]] and [[Gabon]] in 2023. The region also saw attempted coups in [[2021 Nigerien coup d'état attempt|Niger]] and [[September 2021 Sudanese coup d'état attempt|Sudan]] in 2021, [[2022 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt|Guinea–Bissau]] and [[2022 Gambian coup d'état attempt|The Gambia]] in 2022, and [[2023 Sudan conflict|Sudan]] and [[2023 Sierra Leone coup plot|Sierra Leone]] in 2023. After the 2023 Nigerien coup, these countries formed a continuous chain stretching between the east and west coasts of Africa. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page