Guinea-Bissau’s Coup Cycle: How Weak Democratic Institutions Entrench Insecurity and Underdevelopment – Al Jazeera

In an interview with Al Jazeera Media Network, our Peace & Security Policy Lead, Ovigwe Eguegu, explains why the latest coup in Guinea-Bissau was largely unsurprising, but deeply damaging.
He noted that years of political discontent, weak democratic institutions, and poor development have fuelled instability, yet history shows that coups only worsen insecurity, poverty, and corruption, not solve the

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