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Three killed in foiled Chad coup

At least three people were killed in a foiled coup attempt in Chad, the foreign minister said Thursday, and several arrested over the plot in the chronically unstable former French colony. Several senior military figures were among those arrested following the alleged coup attempt, which a major ex-rebel group described as a fabrication engineered by the regime to purge the army.

C.Africa chooses council head to oversee post-coup transition

Central African Republic's transitional council, charged with carrying out parliament's responsibilities after a coup last month, has chosen a president to oversee its work, parliament's press service told AFP Tuesday. Former MP and opposition leader Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet, who is relatively unknown on the political scene, will head the 105-member body.

Retired general arrested for 1997 Turkey coup

A retired general was arrested on Wednesday as part of a probe into the bloodless coup of 1997 that overthrew an Islamist-led government in Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported. Izzettin Iyigun, the former chief of ground forces training command, was jailed hours after he was summoned to testify over the February 28, 1997 coup at an Ankara court. Iyigun was sent to a high-security prison in Ankara's Sincan district, the same place where the army command ordered tanks to roll out onto the streets in a thinly veiled threat to then-prime minister Necmettin Erbakan.

Benin says it has thwarted attempted coup str-bs/jhb
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