> I very much hope it's not a France sponsored coup
Is there any indication that could be the case? I don't see what France would get from such a case, and all the reporting so far seems to be that junior military men are complaining about top military brass and insufficient resources to combat jihadists. France is already embroiled in Mali in that same fight, so it could be a continuation of the same policy.
It's just an automatic assumption when you hear "coup in Africa." France has a very, very long record of staging coups in African countries, in particular upstanding ones.
> I don't see what France would get from such a case,
I don't see either, but America never got anything out of its coups in South Americas either, only more headaches.
Many of them, just because they didn't like the Africans, and just wanted to hurt them out of their sociopatic tendencies, with some geopolitical bullshit as a pretext.
Is there any indication that could be the case? I don't see what France would get from such a case, and all the reporting so far seems to be that junior military men are complaining about top military brass and insufficient resources to combat jihadists. France is already embroiled in Mali in that same fight, so it could be a continuation of the same policy.