Coup Belt
The Coup Belt is a term used to talk about a part of West Africa and the Sahel where there are a lot of coups happening. A coup is when a group of people take over a government by force. This term became popular recently because there were many coups in the early 2020s. Some examples include coups in Mali, Guinea, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Gabon. After a coup in Niger in 2023, these countries formed a line across Africa from the east coast to the west coast.