Overview
- President Patrice Talon said the situation is under control and vowed to secure hostages and hold the mutineers accountable, without giving numbers or identities.
- Security sources reported around a dozen arrests of participants in the uprising, while Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri, named by the mutineers as their leader, was still at large.
- The putschists briefly seized the national broadcaster to announce the dissolution of institutions before the signal was cut and restored, with gunfire reported near Camp Guezo by the French embassy.
- ECOWAS condemned the move and said it deployed a reserve force in Benin, as Nigeria provided air and ground support at the government’s request; troops from Ghana, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone were also cited as part of the effort.
- Calm returned to Cotonou on Monday under a heavy security presence, following a short-lived insurrection that follows a series of military takeovers in West Africa, including Guinea-Bissau in late November.