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Burkina Faso dissolved all political parties and Guinea dissolved forty, including the main opposition. Niger withdrew from the International Criminal Court, describing it as an instrument of neocolonial repression, and suspended French media outlets. The UN human-rights office in Burkina Faso closed after being suspended. Mali's leadership assumed the defence portfolio directly after the minister was killed.
Each card below is one coalition with its own frame on the same contested phenomenon.
Weekly attributed-headline count per narrative. Visual asymmetry is signal: some coalitions dominate the vocabulary, others stay sporadic.
Loaded vocabulary per coalition and recent headlines under each frame.
The Sahel governments are choosing their own partners, leaving institutions they judge to serve others' interests, and refusing the conditionality that came with Western support -- an assertion of independence that the states which lost influence naturally portray as decline.
Per-week distribution of events on this friction node. Click a bar to see that week's top events.
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Countries directly involved in these tensions, or whose own outlets cover them.
Dissolving every political party, suspending foreign media, forcing out the UN human-rights office and abandoning international courts are not sovereignty measures but the removal of every remaining check -- and the transitions promised at each coup keep receding.
