AFRICA-POLITICS-ASSISTED / More than 48% of coups in the world recorded in Africa (lawyer)

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AFRICA-POLITICS-ASSISTED / More than 48% of coups in the world recorded in Africa (lawyer)
AFRICA-POLITICS-ASSISTED / More than 48% of coups in the world recorded in Africa (lawyer)

Africa-Press – Guinee Bissau. At least 48.3% of successful military coups in the world since 1950 have been located on the African continent, the former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission has pointed out. man from Nigeria, Chidi Odinkalu.

Speaking at the international conference on unconstitutional changes of open government on Monday in the Gambian capital, the Nigerian human rights activist noted that 169 coup attempts have been recorded in West Africa since 1950. .

Burkina Faso has recorded the highest number of coups on the continent, with eight successful out of nine, followed by Benin and Nigeria, the jurist suggested.

He thus called not to consider military coups as schemes that could favor the restoration of democracy, while the African continent seeks solutions to the incursion of the military into the political field.

The coup should not be made into a “self-legalizing illegality”, he warned.

He spoke out against the difficulties related to the effectiveness of legal frameworks to prevent the incursion of the military.

Chidi Odinkalu at the same time said that the sentencing of soldiers who encroached on the democratic space should be extended to “political adventurers, perpetrators of constitutional and political coups d’etas through court orders for the extension of mandates and the subversion of national constitutions”.

On the third day of the international conference in Banjul on the theme of zero tolerance to changes of government, the participants discuss, among other things, the role of national jurisdictions and community jurisdiction in the protection of human rights and the legal environment of ECOWAS integration.

The international conference organized at the Dauda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center in Banjul at the initiative of the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States ends on Thursday.

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