{"id":79755,"date":"2025-12-07T13:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79755"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:20:44","slug":"benin-coup-attempt-fails-president-talon-safe-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/07\/benin-coup-attempt-fails-president-talon-safe-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin Coup Attempt Fails, President Talon Safe -Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cross Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A brief coup attempt in Benin Republic early Sunday sparked tension in Cotonou after a group of soldiers, calling themselves the Military Committee for Refoundation (CMR), announced on state television that they had removed President Patrice Talon from office.<\/p>\n<p>The dissident soldiers seized the national broadcaster to make the declaration, while gunshots were reported near Camp Guezo, close to the president\u2019s official residence.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast was cut off shortly after as loyal troops regained control.<\/p>\n<p>The CMR offered no clear justification for the attempted takeover, which comes amid a wave of coups across West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential officials confirmed that Talon is safe and that loyal forces quickly restored order.<\/p>\n<p>They said the plotters never gained access to the presidency and that security operations are ongoing to stabilize the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cross Stone A brief coup attempt in Benin Republic early Sunday sparked tension in Cotonou after a group of soldiers, calling themselves the Military Committee for Refoundation (CMR), announced on state television that they had removed President Patrice Talon from office. The dissident soldiers seized the national broadcaster to make the declaration, while gunshots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79757,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79755\/revisions\/79757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}