{"id":334860,"date":"2025-12-08T13:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/benin-republic-foils-attempted-coup-as-soldiers-arrested-over-failed-power-grab\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:17:25","slug":"benin-republic-foils-attempted-coup-as-soldiers-arrested-over-failed-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=334860","title":{"rendered":"Benin Republic Foils Attempted Coup as Soldiers Arrested Over Failed Power Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n            <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewtegha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Benin-Republic-Attempted-Coup.jpg?fit=750%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"342\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewtegha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Benin-Republic-Attempted-Coup.jpg?resize=696%2C342&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Benin republic ,attempted coup\" title=\"Benin Republic ,Attempted Coup\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- content --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No fewer than a dozen soldiers have been arrested in Benin Republic following an attempted coup that unfolded on Sunday, military and security sources told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>According to one military source, <strong>13 individuals<\/strong> have been taken into custody so far. Another source confirmed that <strong>all the detainees are serving soldiers<\/strong>, except for one former member of the armed forces believed to be part of the plot.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests came hours after a dramatic broadcast on <strong>Benin\u2019s national television<\/strong>, where a group of uniformed officers declared that they had overthrown President Patrice Talon. The officers, calling themselves the <strong>Military Committee for Refoundation<\/strong>, also announced the dissolution of state institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Their declaration, however, was swiftly countered by the presidency. Officials told AFP that <strong>President Talon is safe<\/strong>, adding that loyalist forces had moved quickly to restore order in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the attempted takeover as the action of a fringe faction, the presidency downplayed the threat posed by the renegade soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a small group of people who only control the television. The regular army is regaining control. The city and the country are completely secure,\u201d the presidency said.<\/p>\n<p>Security operations are ongoing as authorities work to stabilize the situation and determine the full extent of the failed coup attempt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-180630137-140724-6936cdedc0568\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=15.3.1#blog_id=180630137&amp;post_id=140724&amp;origin=mathewtegha.com&amp;obj_id=180630137-140724-6936cdedc0568\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-180630137-140724-6936cdedc0568\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 No fewer than a dozen soldiers have been arrested in Benin Republic following an attempted coup that unfolded on Sunday, military and security sources told AFP. According to one military source, 13 individuals have been taken into custody so far. Another source confirmed that all the detainees are serving soldiers, except for one former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160040,160041,88],"tags":[21254,41058,160042,44325,160043,66533,21623,88510,4124,1783,4921,6688],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-334860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attempted-coup","category-benin-republic","category-news","tag-arrested","tag-attempted","tag-attempted-coup","tag-benin","tag-benin-republic","tag-coup","tag-failed","tag-foils","tag-grab","tag-power","tag-republic","tag-soldiers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Benin Republic Foils Attempted Coup as Soldiers Arrested Over Failed Power Grab - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=334860\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benin Republic Foils Attempted Coup as Soldiers Arrested Over Failed Power Grab - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 No fewer than a dozen soldiers have been arrested in Benin Republic following an attempted coup that unfolded on Sunday, military and security sources told AFP. 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