{"id":56484,"date":"2025-12-07T14:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/soldiers-stage-coup-in-benin-presidency-says-situation-under-control\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:05:36","slug":"soldiers-stage-coup-in-benin-presidency-says-situation-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/soldiers-stage-coup-in-benin-presidency-says-situation-under-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers stage coup in Benin, Presidency says situation under control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying themselves as the &#8220;Military Committee for the Refoundation (CMR),&#8221; the soldiers said they convened on Sunday and decided that &#8220;Mr. Patrice Talon is dismissed from his functions as president of the republic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gunshots were reported at Camp Guezo, near the president&#8217;s residence in the largest city of Cotonou, and local media said soldiers had taken control of the state broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Presidency said the president is safe and that government forces have regained control of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The current events in Benin come amid a wave of military takeovers in West Africa. Just in late November, a coup in Guinea-Bissau ousted President Umaro Embalo following a disputed election in which both the incumbent and opposition declared victory. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-98776 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/g7jiqcxxeaa3uzk.jpg\" alt=\"Gunshots were reported at Camp Guezo, near the president&#039;s residence in the largest city of Cotonou, and local media said soldiers had taken control of the state broadcaster.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of soldiers in Benin announced early Sunday on state broadcaster Benin TV that President Patrice Talon had been &#8220;removed from office,&#8221; months ahead of the presidential election scheduled for April 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000098777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000098777,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7jiqcxxeaa3uzk.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7jiqcxxeaa3uzk.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7jiqcxxeaa3uzk.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7jiqcxxeaa3uzk.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7jiqcxxeaa3uzk.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/g7jiqcxxeaa3uzk.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000098777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56484"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56484"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}