End of The Third Republic 1996
This period of government infighting led, in part, to the January 1996 military coup by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, new presidential elections in July 1996, and the military's arrest of major opposition candidates to Maïnassara. A side effect of this was the dissolution of the AFC as a political block.
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