User talk:Discombobulates

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File:Coup belt.svg

Hello, are you able to create a new map/amend as similar to the several countries are missing from what is defined as the coup belt? Be good to have a different colour maybe for when coups were last held?

They countries are:

• Nigeria
• Togo
• Benin
• Ivory Coast
• Gambia
• Senegal
• Mauritania
• Sierra Leone
• Central African Republic
• South Sudan
• Ethiopia
• Eritrea
• Gabon
• Cameroon

Abcmaxx (talk) 09:05, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

I will not update the current map. Anyone is free to create a new one, as the file is an editable SVG.

That map was created to show the Coup Belt, not all African countries with coups (I suppose I should change the description of it, to avoid confusion). It contains the countries on the Coup Belt Wikipedia page (before your unsourced addition of more), for which it was created.

As for adding others, I don't see the source for doing that. The Coup Belt is, as the name implies, a belt. It is not representative of all African countries that have had coups recently. Sources such as The Guardian show a few more countries than the Wikipedia page, but not nearly as many as you list.

Countries that have had their membership in ECOWAS and/or the African Union suspended represent a subset of the Coup Belt, no where near all the countries you list.

Finally, I think the map you're looking for already exists, in the form of File:Coup-detats-in-Africa-Aug2023.png. Discombobulates (talk) 10:25, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

File:Cold War alliances mid-1975.svg

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Johnson.Xia (talk) 08:55, 21 November 2023 (UTC)