The wave of Coup Detat in Francophone countries is yet to calm down as a minority group in the Benin Military attempted to oust His Excellency Patrice Talon on Sunday, December 7, 2025.
As a country rated as one of the most peaceful countries in West Africa, the Military coup comes as a shock to many, even though it is a reality.
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Rumours were circulating about the overthrow being unsuccessful, but the Beninese were out in the capital, Cotonou, celebrating the effort, and this confused foreigners following the situation.
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The French President, Emmanuel Macron, ordered Nigeria’s President and the former Chair of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to protect the capital of Benin and swiftly responded by sending fighter jets and Military support.
Before this order, the Alliance of Sahel States, comprising Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, had already stated that no jet could use their airspace without permission, and they risked being shot down from the skies.
These countries are led by Military rulers who took power from politicians who were abusing power and enriching their families. Aiming to gradually break away from ECOWAS and French influence.
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Mali
- Officially joined: September 2023 (first to withdraw from ECOWAS)
- Current leader: Colonel Assimi Goïta
Burkina Faso
- Officially joined: September 2023
- Current leader: Captain Ibrahim Traoré
Niger
- Officially joined: September 2023 (after the July 2023 coup)
- Current leader: General Abdourahamane Tchiani
Despite the order to seek permission before using their airspace, the Nigerian Air Force acted stubbornly, and this has landed 11 military men in hot water as they are being held hostage in Burkina Faso.
A live coverage was aired where AES addressed the issue, and below is the vivid translation.
“Communiqué from the Confederation of Sahel States (AES)
Regarding the Violation of Confederate Airspace, “The Confederation of Sahel States [informs the public, with the unshakeable clarity of a desert wind cutting through deception] that an aircraft belonging to the Air Force of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a C-130 beast of the skies, was forced to the dust today, 8 December 2025, at Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso. This came in the wake of an in-flight emergency, as it prowled through Burkinabè airspace without a whisper of permission. The military aircraft carried two crew members and nine soldiers, shadows of a foreign force on its unauthorized path. An investigation, swift as a falcon’s strike, was launched immediately by the competent Burkinabè authorities. It laid bare the truth: no authorization for this overflight of our sacred soil. This military intruder had breached our borders in brazen silence. The Confederation of Sahel States condemns with the utmost ferocity this violation of our airspace, a direct assault on the sovereignty of our unbreakable union. In the face of this unfriendly act, born of contempt for international law and the ironclad rules of civil and military aviation, we have forged measures of steel: to safeguard the security of our confederal skies, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our states, and the lives of our resilient peoples. To that end, on the iron orders of our Heads of State, the air defense and anti-aircraft systems of the confederal airspace are now on maximum alert, eyes piercing the heavens like vigilant sentinels. Pursuant to the declaration of the College of Heads of State on 22 December 2024, they are authorized to neutralize any aircraft that dares to violate our confederal space. No mercy for trespassers; our skies are no longer playgrounds for the uninvited.Ouagadougou, 8 December 2025
General d’Armée Assimi Goïta
President of the Transition, Head of State of the Republic of Mali
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