Africa: Is It Time to Bar Coup Leaders From the UN?

4 February 2022
analysis

United Nations — A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power through armed insurrections be barred from addressing the United Nations--an institution which swears by, and promotes, multi-party democracy?

The most recent surge, which the United Nations describes as "an epidemic of coups", include military takeovers in Chad, Guinea, Mali, Sudan, and Burkina Faso (and not excluding Myanmar, which marked the first anniversary of a military government in the Southeast Asian country on February 1).

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