What are the chances of success for transitions in Africa?

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A poster of Colonel Doumbouya, leader of the Guinean junta, in Conakry, September 11, 2021. AFP - JOHN WESSELS

By: Alain Foka Follow

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They are the subject of convictions for having perpetrated a putsch against the elected regime in their country.

They took power by force with the promise to put everything back on track, restore order and organize elections to restore power to civilians.

Despite the popular support they received, except in Chad, what are the chances of success of the Malian, Guinean, Burkinabè and Chadian putschists?

Can they achieve a clean transition and in what time frame?

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With our guests:

- Bruno Fuchs, 

French deputy and vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie

- Nouhoum Sarr, 

president of the African Front for Development party and member of the National Transitional Council in Mali

- Dr Sitack Yombatinan Beni, 

jurist-constitutionalist, vice-president of the Chadian party Les Transformateurs in charge of governance, institutional reforms and lessons

- Bouya Konate,

president of the UDIR party (Union for the Defense of Republican Interests) in Guinea.

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  • Burkina Faso

  • mali

  • Guinea

  • Chad

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