Earlier, a group of soldiers announced on television that President Patrice Talon was being ousted. The interior ministry of the west African nation now says the president is safe and the regular army is back in control. A dozen troops have been arrested. Talon is due to step down in April after a decade in power.
0:00 An attempted military coup has been foiled in Benin
1:08 Beverly Ochieng, Security analyst specializing in the Sahel and global power competition in Africa at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
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