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GZERO 2023 winners and losers
Analysis

2023's biggest winners and losers in global politics

Who won? Who lost? Global politics may be about how you play the game, but at the end of the day – or the year – some folks come out on top and others don’t. Here’s GZERO’s list of the biggest winners and losers of 2023. Let us know what you think, and have a Happy New Year!

People pose with soldiers as they celebrate in support of the putschists in a street of Libreville, Gabon.
Africa

Another day, another coup in Africa

Just hours after being declared the winner of a fraught presidential election that the opposition says was plagued by irregularities, Ali Bongo Ondimba, the president of the central African state of Gabon, was ousted in a military coup – the seventh on the African continent in just two years.

Timeline chart of attempted and successful military coups since 1946
News

The Graphic Truth: Coups ain't what they used to be

Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum was reportedly arrested by his own guard in an apparent coup.