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In the recent years Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan caught the international attention for which one of the following reasons common to all of them?

ADiscovery of rich deposits of rare earth elements
BEstablishment of Chinese military bases
CSouthward expansion of Sahara Desert
DSuccessful coups
Correct Answer — D

Explanation

All four countries — Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Sudan — witnessed successful military coups within a short span of each other in the early 2020s, part of a broader wave of instability across the African Sahel region that also swept through Burkina Faso and Guinea-Bissau.

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