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BBC OS Conversatioms: Living through a coup

The Documentary Podcast

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The Clash of the Guards in Niger

Coup d'etat is an illegal and overt attempt by the military or other civilian officials to unseat sitting leaders. The OS team has spent the past week trying to make contact with people inside Niger, one of the few democracies left in the Sahel. Joe was a teenager during the 1981 coup attempt in Spain; Sadia was 12 when General Perdvez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan in 1999.; Esther was two when the military took power in Ghana in 1966.

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