Will There Be A 'Global Epidemic' Of Coups In 2022?

Sudan's Gen Abdel Fattah Al Burhan speaks during a press conference after the military took power in the country. AFP  

Washington Post: There was an ‘epidemic’ of coups in 2021. The new year hasn’t cured the political turmoil. 

Last year saw a rash of coups d'état across the world, from West Africa to Southeast Asia. But the reverberations of 2021 political takeovers are continuing into the new year in Sudan, Myanmar and elsewhere. On Sunday, just two months after being reinstated by military leaders, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced his resignation. 

“I tried as much as I could to avoid our country from sliding into disaster,” he said in an address to the nation. 

Hamdok’s short-lived return to office dashed many hopes that Sudan’s coup leaders could turn toward democracy. The former United Nations official had become prime minister in August 2019 following the fall of longtime authoritarian ruler Omar Hassan al-Bashir in April of that year. He had been charged with leading the country’s transition to post-Bashir elections this year. Instead, amid increasingly fractious relations with Sudan’s powerful military, he was ousted on Oct. 25, 2021, and placed under house arrest.  

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WNU Editor: Coups have definitely returned to Africa .... 2021, the year military coups returned to the stage in Africa (Al Jazeera).

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