{"id":21946,"date":"2025-12-07T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/07\/benin-soldiers-announce-takeover-on-national-tv\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:17:59","slug":"benin-soldiers-announce-takeover-on-national-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/07\/benin-soldiers-announce-takeover-on-national-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin Soldiers Announce Takeover on National TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAKAR: Soldiers in Benin announced on national television that they have taken control of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This surprising news came just ahead of a presidential election scheduled for April, which would have seen the current president, Patrice Talon, step down after serving since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling coalition had already chosen Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni as their candidate, hoping he would continue the economic reforms put in place by Talon if he&#8217;s elected.<\/p>\n<p>Talon\u2019s decision not to seek a third term was notable, especially in a region where democratic practices are facing challenges. Just last month, Guinea-Bissau experienced its ninth coup since 2020.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAKAR: Soldiers in Benin announced on national television that they have taken control of the country. This surprising news came just ahead of a presidential election scheduled for April, which would have seen the current president, Patrice Talon, step down after serving since 2016. The ruling coalition had already chosen Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[27877,27876,27878],"class_list":["post-21946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-news","tag-benin","tag-romuald-wadagni","tag-west-african-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}