Two politicians and a high-ranking army officer have been arrested in relation to the aborted coup plot, but supporters of the politicians have condemned their arrests as “a serious violation of fundamental rights.”
Armed mutineers led by a former Congolese military captain attempted, and failed, to take over the official residence and offices of the president.
From bouts of violence, casualties to a mounting number of refugees, we break down the events in Africa’s troubled central region.
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