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Military rule is on the rise in Africa – nothing good came from it in the past

By Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago

In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back.

Coup leaders have suppressed protest, gagged…

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