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Report: US-Trained African Troops Carried Out at Least Eight Coups in West Africa Since 2008

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The US’ Africa Command (AFRICOM) has reportedly confirmed that several African military leaders who conducted coups in their countries participated in AFRICOM's Flintlock anti-terrorist exercises.

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Since 2008, US-trained African military officers have attempted at least nine coups in five West African countries, of which eight have been successful, Rolling Stone reported. The successful coups indicated by Rolling Stone occurred in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Mauritania in different years; the unsuccessful one took place in Gambia in 2014.

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"SOCAFRICA’s Flintlock exercise may not be an incubator of insurrection, but recent putschists have been some of its highest profile participants," Rolling Stone pointed out.

akwesenana:
If only Putin was on Nairaland.

The military experts here alone enh.

NLaob:


"SOCAFRICA’s Flintlock exercise may not be an incubator of insurrection, but recent putschists have been some of its highest profile participants," Rolling Stone pointed out.

baralatie:

Even us come here fear analysis

NLaob:

Kelly Cahalan, spokeswoman for US Africa Command, claimed that "military seizures of power are inconsistent with U.S. military training and education.”

NLaob:

Kelly Cahalan, spokeswoman for US Africa Command, claimed that "military seizures of power are inconsistent with U.S. military training and education.”

akwesenana:

TBH, the US have a reputation of toppling unfriendly governments whether democratic or not.

NLaob:

At the same time, according to the outlet, the Burkina Faso officer Gilbert Diendere was trained by the US in 2010, and in 2015 he staged a coup in Burkina Faso.

haaryobhami:
they are very stupid bunch,they support Russia evil because usa did evil in d past . How about not supporting and defending the two war mongers ?

BentizilL:

That's your problem, mumu hypocrite who are you trying to deceive?
Baa is writing like a neutral man when we all know you're a western asslicker..

Where are you in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, Vietnam??

NLaob:

Another Burkinabe military figure, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who overthrew the authorities of the country in January this year, also participated in the exercises. 

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 He remained the head of the country until the end of September, when he was overthrown by a group of military forces led by Ibrahim Traore, whose connections with US instructors are unknown.

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Among other military figures who participated in the US-led exercise and later took part in takeovers in their countries are Colonel Mamady Dumbua, who became president of Guinea in 2021 as a result of a coup, and Colonel Assimi Goita, who seized power in Mali the same year..

NLaob:

The Flintlock exercises that began as a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET)-like program in 1968 and initially included a number of Western countries were first conducted in Africa in 2005. The JCET exercises are aimed to provide US Special Forces with training opportunities abroad. The Flintlock exercises, as well as JCET, are also intended to let the host countries practice basics such as small-unit tactics, marksmanship, land navigation, and combat medical skills.

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Rear Adm. Milton “Jamie” Sands, the Special Operations Command Africa chief, denied US involvement in the coups and said it was a coincidence as the US had partnered with regimes that didn’t align “with the rights and will of their people” and ended up being overthrown.

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Rear Adm. Milton “Jamie” Sands, the Special Operations Command Africa chief, denied US involvement in the coups and said it was a coincidence as the US had partnered with regimes that didn’t align “with the rights and will of their people” and ended up being overthrown.

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“I would tell you that there’s no one more surprised or disappointed when partners that we’re working with or have been working with for a while in some cases decide to overthrow their government,” Sands told Rolling Stone. “We have not found ourselves able to prevent it.”

BentizilL:

That's your problem, mumu hypocrite who are you trying to deceive?
Baa is writing like a neutral man when we all know you're a western asslicker..

Where are you in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, Vietnam??

NLaob:

“I would tell you that there’s no one more surprised or disappointed when partners that we’re working with or have been working with for a while in some cases decide to overthrow their government,” Sands told Rolling Stone. “We have not found ourselves able to prevent it.”