Overall, according to this 2023 report by Al Jazeera, of the 486 attempted or successful military coups around the world since 1950, almost half of this total or 214 have occurred in our “Mother Continent”, and of those 214 African coup attempts, 106 have been successful. The map below, by contrast, shows the sundry coup d’etats that have taken place in Africa since the outbreak of the Wuhan pandemic in 2020.