Fourteen people have been arrested in connection with an attempted coup in Benin, a government spokesperson told Reuters on Sunday. Earlier in the day, a group of soldiers in the West African nation claimed on national television that they had seized power. Analysis by Berverly Ochieng, senior analyst at Control Risk’s Global Risk Analysis in Dakar, Senegal.
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