हाल के वर्षों में, चाड, गिनी, माली और सूडान ने निम्नलिखित में से किस एक कारण से अंतर्राष्ट्रीय ध्यान आकर्षित किया, जो इन सभी देशों से संबंधित है?
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In the recent years Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan caught the international attention for which one of the following reasons common to all of them?
(a) Discovery of rich deposits of rare earth elements · (b) Establishment of Chinese military bases · (c) Southward expansion of Sahara Desert · (d) Successful coups
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (d) सफल तख्ता-पलट
All four countries saw armed forces seize power in 2020-21: Mali in 2020 and again in May 2021, Chad in April 2021, Guinea in September 2021 and Sudan in October 2021. The UN itself described these as a wave of takeovers across the Sahel and West Africa.
- ✓ (d) Military takeovers happened in Mali, Chad, Guinea and Sudan between 2020 and 2021. This is the one feature common to all four; the UN linked them together while reacting to another coup in Burkina Faso in January 2022.
- ✗ (a) None of these events was about a rare-earth discovery. The four countries are in the news for political instability, not for a shared mineral find.
- ✗ (b) No shared story of Chinese military bases links the four countries.
- ✗ (c) Desertification of the Sahel is a regional concern, but it does not apply to all four: Guinea is a humid Atlantic-coast country, far from the Sahara, and the option does not describe why they were in the news.
Remember · Mali (2020, 2021), Chad (2021), Guinea (2021), Sudan (2021) and later Burkina Faso (2022) all saw military seizures of power; the common thread is coups.
Sources
- UN News, Guterres calls on Burkina Faso coup leaders to 'lay down their arms' (Internet Archive copy) ↗ “a military coup was staged in Mali, and a wave of other coup attempts, and takeovers have occurred across West Africa and the Sahel, including the seizure of power in Chad, Sudan and Guinea.”
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·