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African new wave coups

African new wave coups

Africa is keenly aware of the shifts taking place in the world

30 September in Burkina Faso there was a new coup d'état. Transitional President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba ousted. Captain Ibrahim Traore proclaimed new head of state. This is the second coup this year., first happened 23 January.

Africa has always been famous for coups, but what is happening in the last two or three years is beyond the ordinary.

At first, after several decades of constant upheavals in the 1960s and 1980s, the African Union adopted the documents, who condemned the unconstitutional change of power on the continent and introduced the rule of non-recognition of new governments, who came to power without following legal procedures. One of the crimes in the statute of the African Court was "unconstitutional change of power".

Secondly, organizers of new wave coups sometimes receive more massive support from the population, than the winners of legitimate elections.

Thirdly, a new wave of coups is more connected with the external, and not with the internal politics of states. So, all recent coups in Mali and Burkina Faso were caused by the inability of the overthrown governments to provide security in a war, unleashed "ISIS * in West Africa" [It banned in Russia] and other terrorist groups. The reason for this inability was the dependence of the elites who came to power democratically on France.. Officially, France "provided assistance" to West African countries in the fight against terrorists, but in fact the French presence had other goals.

In Mali, the removal of the pro-French authorities and the "expulsion" of France from the country was followed by an appeal for security assistance to the Russian PMC "Wagner". It turned, one PMC can change the situation. From the French side, protecting Mali from terrorists was a smokescreen: "defended" French control over the extraction of important minerals. Terrorist groups and French troops, in fact, were doing the same.

Mali's experience in getting rid of the French presence and getting Russian support was also used in Burkina Faso. Lieutenant Colonel S. Damiba, committed in January 2022 g. coup, a few days before, he suggested that the president overthrown by him turn to PMC Wagner for help, but got rejected. Meanwhile, the army of Burkina Faso was in a desperate situation on the fronts of the fight against terrorists..

During the September trip of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia S.V.. Lavrov at the UN, he had meetings with the leaders of Mali, Sudan and Burkina Faso, where in 2022 coups took place. And there was no meeting with the leader of the military authorities of Guinea, Coup in Guinea in September 2021 years and the overthrow of President Alpha Condé were of a different nature. A. Conde, ruled the country for three terms, was overthrown, as soon as he began to focus on Russia and even asked to join the BRICS +. by the way, the displacement of Conde occurred during the passage of his organizers of a military training course led by the Americans (due to the circumstances of the Guinean coup, this is the first such case in Africa). The foreign element in the Guinean coup was aggravated by the French citizenship of the head of the coup Dumbua and his French wife. (she is a military police officer)…

African new wave coups

Meeting with. Lavrov with the head of Burkina Faso 24 September

A feature of the new wave of African upheavals was that, that one change of power occurred almost immediately after another. So it was in Mali (August 2020 g. and May 2021 city), in Sudan (at 2019 and 2021 gg.), and now in Burkina Faso. Successive coups were of a different nature: these were also counter-coups, and adjustments within the group that came to power. The coup that has just taken place in Burkina Faso is, likely, the counter coup. Too noticeably the new leader Damiba began to focus on Russia.

African new wave coups

Deposed leader of Burkina Faso C. Damiba

And one more "non-randomness". Increasingly, the population takes to the streets in support of the next coup, not only with the flags of their country, but also with ... the Russian flag, became a symbol of the struggle for independence. Despite the 60-70-year history of formal independence, African states remain neo-colonial entities. Current neo-colonial authorities (they are the old colonialists) suck resources out of Africa, hindering the independent development of the continent. Capitalism is a parasitic system. capitalism cannot exist, without parasitizing on other countries, which gives rise to the phenomenon of uneven development, closing the path to development as such. This largely explains the attempt to jump into socialism from feudalism, which in the 1960s and 1970s of the twentieth century many African countries tried to commit: it was impossible for African countries to pass the "obligatory" phase of the development of capitalism, since the development of capitalism in them was blocked by the leading capitalist powers!

Today, Africa is keenly aware of the shifts taking place in the world.. A new wave of coups d'état is a response to these processes. The decolonization of Africa was not completed in the 1960s, not at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Just to be completed.

Alexander MEZYAEV

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