putsch
Example Sentences
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In Niger, the circumstances surrounding the 2023 putsch were equally distinctive.
From BBC
The military appointed General Horta N'Tam, the army's chief of staff, as the country's new leader for a transition period of one year after Wednesday's putsch.
From Barron's
The coups were followed by similar military putsches in Burkina Faso and Niger.
Though they largely put down the putsch, many then turned their wrath on Alawites, a largely impoverished minority that constitutes some 10% of the country’s population and which dominated Assad-era security services and state bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times
Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, initially offered little detail about the purported putsch in the capital, Kinshasa, other than to say that the plotters and their leader had been “put out of action.”
From New York Times
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