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Nigeria’s foreign minister: Mali, Guinea coups ‘really a setback for democracy’

By France24
15 November 2021   |   10:48 am
Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told FRANCE 24 that recent coups in West Africa are undermining democracy and that events have reached a crucial juncture for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc. “Clearly it is a threat, it is an unfortunate precedent,” he said.

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