How come almost every country along the band stretching from Guinea to Sudan is either a military dictatorship or was one very recently? Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 07:04, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why are they military dictatorships specifically, as opposed to other forms of dictatorship? Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 09:04, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Someone who's wrong on the internet, that area is known as the Sahel. We don't seem to have an article on it, but a web search for Sahel and politics and/or your more specific terms of choice will provide a lot of information. CMD (talk) 07:37, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We do have an article on it, Coup Belt, which has a bit of information. 115.188.138.105 (talk) 09:36, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, good find. Unfortunately short. CMD (talk) 13:13, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is also Alliance of Sahel States. --Error (talk) 16:37, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's "Picture of the Day" shews US Secretary of State William P. Rogers signing the Paris Peace Accords, 27 January 1973, at the Hotel Majestic. But who else is in the picture? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 22:09, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"William J. Porter, the new Deputy Undersecretary of State who had been the United States delegate to the semi-public talks until this month, flew to Paris with Mr Rogers and sat at the table with him. Heywood Isham, acting head of the United States delegation, Marshall Green, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and William H. Sullivan, Mr Green’s deputy, who has been leading technical talks with the North Vietnamese here, completed the American group at the table." [1] --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:30, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(this was from a Google search forUS Secretary of State William Rogers Signing the Paris Peace Accords.) --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:37, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, so seated at the table, from left to right, 1) William H. Sullivan, 2) William J. Porter, 3) William P. Rogers, 4) not sure, I think Marshall Green, 5) not sure. None of them look bald enough to be Heyward Isham who you can see here. I'd like to know who the two men standing behind them are. The one on our right appears to be wearing some kind of chain of office. DuncanHill (talk) 11:45, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, somewhere on this search I found a mention of him as an usher. Note the white gloves. Here's a few more pictures of the event. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:57, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]