Barack Obama's administration lined up with the rest of the region in condemning the coup.
Before the coup, the city was dotted with nightclubs and bars blaring desert reggae.
But it is in the West where opposition to the coup has wavered first.
But it plunged into chaos after the coup that ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure from power.
In Mali's capital, Bamako, the coup puts the brakes on a blooming reputation for democratic rule.
Qutb and the Brotherhood initially welcomed the coup and worked enthusiastically with its leaders.
As a candidate Mr Lobo was evasive, speaking little about the coup and its aftermath.
She promises not to avenge the coup or to rush into pardoning and bringing home her brother.
The leader of the coup, Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, summoned Mrs Johnson Sirleaf to the executive mansion.
Archbishop Makarios was reinstated and Mr Sampson was put on trial for his role in the coup.
MPs who fled the capital, Phnom Penh, after the coup are back organising party machines and campaigns.
In the end, it will probably be Mr Aso's mediocre performance that administers the coup de grace.
But on Sunday, Paxon again insisted that, despite his resignation, he was not part of the coup plot.
As it is, America, which had at first seemed prepared to tolerate the coup, has toughened its stance.
Paul Harris then ended Shillingford's stay, leaving Steyn (8-94 in the match) to supply the coup de grace.
Neighboring states, Western powers and the United Nations have condemned the coup and demanded the junta restore Toure's government.
Until the coup, Thailand seemed to be escaping its historic cycle of alternating military dictatorships and weak civilian rule.
While the rest of the world condemned the coup, the people of Abidjan took to the streets to celebrate.
On February 13th Ms Gillard gave a stilted interview in a television programme revisiting the coup against her predecessor.
The coup de grace arrived when Shoaib skewed Broad to that man Morgan.
Mr Sharif's party, the Pakistan Muslim League, this week petitioned the Supreme Court to rule that the coup was illegal.
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Fears that Mr Speight might spill the beans about other backers of the coup may also have played a role.
Some at Goldmans believe that the real reason for the coup was Mr Corzine's failure to work well with Mr Paulson.
Meanwhile Mali reminded us all that the coup is still our continent's most likely source of a sudden change of government.
Most Ivorians took this to mean that the coup was backed by neighbouring Burkina Faso, which that country's government hotly denies.
All the countries of the Americas and the European Union severed relations with Honduras after the coup, and many cut aid programmes.
In the early 1990s, tens of thousands more Haitians migrated to the United States after the coup d'etat deposing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Their defiance led to a unanimous vote to suspend Honduras from membership of the OAS, since the coup violated its Democratic Charter.
The coup is expected to affect the hunt for Joseph Kony, said the commander of African troops tracking the the fugitive warlord.
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