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France begins withdrawing its forces from Niger after the ruling military government ordered them to leave.
2023-10-10

The Assimi Goïta-led military junta prohibits the operation of France-supported NGOs in Mali to reciprocate the French government's suspension of development aid for the West African country due to its involvement with Russia's Wagner Group in the war.
2022-11-21

The ruling military junta of Burkina Faso, the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration, says that it is considering beginning a thirty-month transition to democracy.
2022-02-27

France says that a planned deal between Mali's military junta led by Assimi Goïta and the Wagner Group to bring Russian private military contractors into Mali was "incompatible" with the current French military presence.
2021-09-14

During a news conference in Naypyidaw, the Tatmadaw defended the reimposition of the junta and claimed that ousted national leader Aung San Suu Kyi was corrupt, tantamount to graft. No supporting evidence for these allegations was offered outside of the taped testimony of a former colleague of Aung San Suu Kyi, Phyo Min Thein, who has been detained by the military since the coup began.
2021-03-23

The military junta expands the provisions of Myanmar's martial law, which is perceived as an attempt to legitimize their violent pushback against anti-coup protesters.
2021-03-15

The governing body of the Egyptian military approves Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led the coup d'état that overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, to run for the presidency in the upcoming election.
2014-01-27

The Cabinet of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf submits its resignation to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, but its resignation is officially rejected.
2011-11-21

A new cabinet of Egypt is sworn in by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
2011-03-7

In Niger, a military junta named the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy carries out a coup d'état, suspending the constitution and detaining President Mamadou Tandja.
2010-02-18