junta
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The final phase of the month-long vote is scheduled for January 25, with the junta saying the election will return power to the people.
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Argentina’s junta was replaced with a democratic government a year after being defeated by the United Kingdom in the 1982 Falklands War.
Guerrilla Arakan Army fighters -- one of the many factions challenging the junta's rule -- control swathes of jungle across the border with Myanmar.
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Soon after taking power in 2023, the junta asked French and US soldiers who had been fighting jihadists, notably in the west of the country, to leave Niger.
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Rebel factions have pledged to block the vote from the enclaves they control, and the junta has admitted the vote cannot be held nationwide, but is waging offensives in a bid to claw back ground.
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