
In the recent years Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan caught the international attention for which one of the following reasons common to all of them?
- Discovery of rich deposits of rare earth elements
- Establishment of Chinese military bases
- Southward expansion of Sahara Desert
- Successful coups
Explanation
Option (d) is correct
- Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan are associated with successful Military Coups.
- Chad: A military government has ruled the country since April 2021, when a group of senior military officers seized power in a coup d’état following the death of 30-year president Idriss Déby Itno.
- Guinea: In September 2021, a military coup occurred in Guinea, led by the special forces unit known as the National Committee for Reconciliation and Development (CNRD). The coup ousted President Alpha Condé, who had been in office for over a decade.
- Mali: It has undergone two military coups since August 2020, when the army ousted elected president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.
- Sudan: In the wake of widespread protests that resulted in the removal of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, Sudan underwent a sequence of political transformations, including a military coup.


