African Union Condemns An ‘Epidemic’ Of Coups, Dismissing Citizen Claims Of Misrule – OpEd

By Lisa Vives

African leaders holding office for 20, 30 or 40 years after questionable elections are battening down the hatches as their grip on power and consumption of the nation’s riches seems unlikely to go unchallenged for long.   

This so-called “resurgence of coups” has received little critical analysis, but...