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Africa and the need for military professionalism

The continent of Africa is characterised by regions that are vulnerable to political instability.

One example is the ECOWAS, which is an unstable region with fragile states that are vulnerable to military coups.

In fact, of all the seven military coups as well as attempted ones since 2020, five of these successful as well as three failed, were in the ECOWAS region making it a coup laboratory of Africa.

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