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“The force used was proportionate to the situation. We are being accused of having used excessive force (…) Were we supposed to sit idly by in the face of this crowd of protesters ready to overthrow the government?”

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He’s trying to latch his case onto the Sahelian juntas’ talking points and onto pan-Africanism—which these days is used to justify anything and everything. Cute.

He’s trying to latch his case onto the Sahelian juntas’ talking points and onto pan-Africanism—which these days is used to justify anything and everything. Cute.

"It's enough to meet Africans, whether illiterate or educated, crowding into polling stations to grasp the obvious meaning they attach to this fundamental right: to choose and dismiss their leaders (...), and to reaffirm one’s conviction in the universality of the democratic aspiration."

"A journalist critical of the authorities, Habib Marouane Camara, has also been missing since December 2024 after being abducted in Conakry by men in uniform. His relatives remain without news of him.”

"Oumar Sylla, better known as Foniké Menguè, and Mamadou Billo Bah, two leaders of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, a citizen movement calling for the return of civilians to power in Guinea, were abducted on July 9, 2024."

six weeks, in 2024, for Bangladeshis to drive out Sheikh Hasina, then 76, who had been in power for more than fifteen years; and only two days for Nepal’s Generation Z in September 2025 to bring down the government of Maoist leader Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, 73."

"It took five months, in 2022, for Sri Lankan youth to oust the Rajapaksa clan that had ruled the country for several decades;"