On February 1, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested in a coup that ends the country’s decade-long experiment with democracy. More than 1,100 people have since been killed and thousands arrested during the violent suppression of mass protests against the military junta. Suu Kyi is sentenced in December to two years in prison for inciting public unrest and violating health rules and faces decades in jail if convicted in other trials. On May 24, Mali strongman Colonel Assimi Goita carries out the West African country’s second coup in 10 months. In Tunisia in July, President Kais Saied takes wide-ranging powers. Guinea’s president Alpha Conde is overthrown in a military coup on September 5. And in Sudan, in November Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is reinstated, but the army tightens its grip after the previous month’s coup.