Coups in the Age of Drones: The New Digital Battlefield That Crushed the Benin Plot
The sun was barely up over Cotonou on Sunday, December 7, 2025, when the first crackle of gunfire broke the relative calm. For a few terrifying hours, the citizens of Benin, a nation once hailed as a beacon of democracy in West Africa, watched as a familiar, dreadful script unfolded: soldiers, eight in all, appearing…