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On 26 July 2023, Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum was detained by soldiers. This is the fifth military coup in the history of Niger and sadly another coup in West Africa, after similar events in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Sudan lately.

Al-Jazeera interviewed Dr. Adam Sandor, postdoc researcher within the Postcolonial Hierarchies project at the Chair for Sociology of Africa, on the current situation and previous developments in Niger: See the interview here