coup d’états make a return to Africa is Uganda safe?

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 TheDrone

By Correspondent

Just today, an attempted coup d’état was quelled in Sudan. The Sudan government says there has been a failed coup attempt in the country and measures are being taken to contain it, state media are reporting.

There had been an attempt to take over the building that houses the state media, AFP says citing a government source. A government spokesman said the interrogation of suspects behind the attempted coup would begin shortly.

Not so many weeks, Mutinous soldiers deposed Guinean President Alpha Condé. These are many impending coups being whispered around, are a cause for questions:

However, it’s not a question of a coup taking root in Africa, re-taking root: it’s like a whirlwind that goes around and around. It is just returning home where it used to happen more frequently in the 1960s, 70s and 80s/90s (lesser)! The birds have returned home to roost!

Yes, the return we’re experiencing could be a wave: as it has bn frequent in North & West Afrika–as usual! Or could this be a transformed Arab Spring extending or still on the move southwards!? Interestingly it’s West & Central Africa which are prone to military coups, in Eastern Africa it’s mainly, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

Southern Africa has had none, except “revolutionary wars of liberation” in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia & the then Zaire which became DR Congo!

About the latest developments in the Sudan, it’s interesting that some media are saying “a coup has been foiled” (a coup is a successful upstage of one group (old ruling clique) by another (new military group). If it’s foiled, then it was “an attempted coup” that fails not a coup d’état!

So are such developments infectious? Yes & No!! While not as infectious as a mass uprising by mainly civilians (that’s why many Govts fear protests, bcoz they develop into wanainchi-led mass uprisings-into-revolutions like the one that ousted Bashir two years ago)! These uprisings are normally joined by the military.

But they’re are no better alternatives to those they remove! They’re a temporary relief to the disgruntled/oppressed majority in a country! Coup-stagers with time, upgrade into new military oppressors e.g the 1985 Lutwa-UNLA factional [military Junta] who upstaged a coup against Milton Obote’s UNLA-UPC group/faction both of which were effectively replaced by the 1981-86 NRM-led revolutionary war that has transformed into a Military-Civilian group!