The title is incorrect. It should read: Africa: 200 coups in 37 years.
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>From: Malamin Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Africa: 200 Coups in 27 years
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:40:09 -0000
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>Vanguard
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>June 4, 2001
>Posted to the web June 4, 2001
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>About 200 regimes in Africa were removed between 1963 and 2000 by coup
>d’etat, wars or other unconstitutional means, a report has shown.
>
>The report, compiled by the African Development Bank (ADB) and contained in
>its "African Development Report 2001," shows that 14 current leaders in
>Africa have been in office for between 10 years and 20 years, while nine of
>them have served for more than 20 years.
>
>The mean tenure for all former African leaders according to the report is
>7.2 years and about twice that number for leaders who died in office or
>retired. It also says between 1960 and 1989, only one African head of state
>lost an election, while 12 lost elections between 1990 and 1999.
>
>In contrast, European leaders have each served an average of 3.2 years over
>the past four decades with Finland having the shortest average and
>Luxembourg the longest. The document also shows that three recently
>independent countries in Africa have had no leadership transitions since
>independence while 11 have had just one transition, just as Nigeria has had
>11 transitions and Benin Republic 12.
>
>The report states that of the 101 past leaders in Africa who left office
>because of coups or similar unauthorised means, about two-thirds were
>killed, imprisoned or banished to foreign countries.
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