Overview
- Lt. Col. Pascal Tigri, named by mutineers as their leader, remains on the run as authorities pursue remaining plotters.
- Benin reports around a dozen arrests after loyalist forces retook key sites and restored state TV and radio broadcasts.
- Two high-ranking officers taken hostage, Chief of Army Staff Abou Issa and Colonel Faizou Gomina, were freed early Monday, military sources said.
- Nigeria provided air and ground support at Benin’s request, and ECOWAS said it had deployed a standby force to help preserve constitutional order.
- Cotonou returned to relative calm under a heavy security presence, with authorities acknowledging casualties and an ECOWAS meeting initially planned for Monday later canceled.