{"id":815,"date":"2012-06-04T13:22:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=815"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:18:44","slug":"polity-4th-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/polity-4th-june-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Polity, 4 June 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of 22 March 2012, news of a military coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in Mali spread across the world. Claiming a lack of adequate means and resources to fight Tuareg insurgents in the north of the country, military officers announced on state television that they had seized control and deposed President Amadou Toumani Toure. No more than three weeks later, on 12 April 2012, Guinea Bissau\u2019s Government was toppled by elements of the country\u2019s military after alleged plans by the former to downsize the military. Interestingly, both coups occurred only a couple of weeks prior to scheduled presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Follow link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polity.org.za\/article\/coups-in-west-africa-a-reflection-of-deficiencies-in-africas-electoral-democracies-2012-06-11\" target=\"_blank\">Follow link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARI\u2019s publication \u201cDiehards and Democracy: Elites, inequalities and institutions in African elections\u201d quoted in Polity\u2019s article \u201cCoups in West Africa: A reflection of deficiencies in Africa\u2019s electoral democracies?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ari-in-the-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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