France has revealed that it provided surveillance, observation and logistical assistance to Benin\u2019s armed forces to help fend off last weekend\u2019s attempted coup.<\/p>\n
The Elysee Palace said on Tuesday that President Macron \u201cled a coordination effort\u201d and spoke to Benin\u2019s President Patrice Talon, as well as representatives of ECOWAS.<\/p>\n
The West African regional bloc said it deployed a standby force using troops from Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, a group of soldiers calling themselves the Military Committee for Refoundation stormed Benin\u2019s state television to announce the coup. Just hours later, state authorities said the\u00a0takeover attempt had been foiled.<\/p>\n
Beninese authorities said on Monday that there had been multiple\u00a0casualties on both sides\u00a0and several soldiers had been arrested. The coup leader, Lt. Col. Pascal Tigri, a former member of Talon\u2019s protection detail, is still on the run.<\/p>\n
The Elysee Palace said Paris condemned the attempt at destabilization and offered its full political support to ECOWAS.<\/p>\n
France has revealed that it provided surveillance, observation and logistical assistance to Benin\u2019s armed forces to help fend off last weekend\u2019s attempted coup. The Elysee Palace said on Tuesday that President Macron \u201cled a coordination effort\u201d and spoke to Benin\u2019s President Patrice Talon, as well as representatives of ECOWAS. The West African regional bloc said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Africa News","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,33,27],"tags":[512,1665,290,4680],"class_list":["post-18901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","category-west-africa","tag-benin","tag-economic-community-of-african-states-ecowas","tag-france","tag-pascal-tigri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18902,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions\/18902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}