Coup Belt
The Coup Belt (french: la ceinture de coups d'État) is a modern geopolitical concept and neologism which emerged during the 2020s to describe the region of West Africa, Central Africa and the Sahel that is home to countries with a List of coups and coup attempts since 2010#Africa, high prevalence of coup d'état, coups d'état. After the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état, 2023 Nigerien coup, these countries formed a continuous chain stretching between the east and west coasts of Africa. Overview Origin Although likely older, the term became popular in the 2020s after a string of coups in the early part of the decade, including in Mali in 2020 Malian coup d'état, 2020 and 2021 Malian coup d'état, 2021, Mahamat Déby#President of the Transitional Military Council, Chad, 2021 Guinean coup d'état, Guinea, and 2021 Sudanese coup d'état, Sudan in 2021, two in Burkina Faso in January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état, January and September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état, September 2022 ...
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afr ...
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