List of coups and coup attempts by country (redirect from Thai coup d'état)
This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government...
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Burkina Faso (section 1983 coup d'état)
the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274...
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On 23 December 2008, a coup d'état occurred in Guinea, shortly after the death of long-time president Lansana Conté. A junta called the National Council...
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On 4 August 1983, a coup d'état was launched in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) in an event sometimes referred to as the August revolution...
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1971 Moroccan coup attempt (redirect from Skhirat coup-d'état)
1971 Moroccan coup d'état attempt, popularly known as the Skhirat coup d'état (Arabic: محاولة انقلاب الصخيرات, French: Coup d'état de Skhirat), was a...
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2015 Burkina Faso coup attempt (redirect from Burkinabé coup d'état of 2015)
The 2015 Burkina Faso coup d'état attempt was a failed coup d'état launched on 16 September 2015 in Burkina Faso, when members of the Regiment of Presidential...
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1965 Burundian coup attempt (redirect from 1965 Burundian coup d'état)
contingent of troops led by Captain Michel Micombero. The attempted coup d'état provoked a backlash against Hutus in which thousands of people, including...
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The 1975 Chadian coup d'état was in considerable part generated by the growing distrust of the president of Chad, François Tombalbaye, for the army. This...
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The 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état was an event which took place on 3 January 1966 in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso), when following large-scale...
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coup d'état that overthrew the Diori regime. The coup had been masterminded by Col. Seyni Kountché and a military group under the name of the Conseil Militaire...
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The 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état was a military coup that took place in Mauritania on August 6, 2008, when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted...
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Émile Derlin Zinsou (redirect from 1969 Dahomeyan coup d'état)
Machine, Fraternite, 15 June 2007 (in French). Thibaud Nagnonhou, "5e Conseil national de l’UNDP : Le Président Zinsou et les siens jettent leur dévolu...
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Algiers putsch of 1961 (category 1960s coups d'état and coup attempts)
Putsch d'Alger or Coup d'État d'Alger), also known as the putsch of the generals (Putsch des généraux), was a failed coup d'état intended to force French...
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the Ouagadougou military camp. He participated in the November 1982 coup d'état and shortly thereafter assumed the presidency. More ideologically moderate...
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Dissolution of the Lumumba Government (redirect from 1960 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état)
originally supposed to appeal constitutional questions to the Belgian Conseil d'État. With the rupture of relations in July this was no longer possible,...
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ousts president 1974 Nigerien coup d'état 1996 Nigerien coup d'état 1999 Nigerien coup d'état 2023 Nigerien coup d'état "Freedom in the World 2012: Niger"...
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Léopold Sédar Senghor (redirect from 1962 Senegalese coup d'état attempt)
Republic's constitution, general councillor for Senegal, member of the Grand Conseil de l'Afrique Occidentale Francaise and member of the parliamentary assembly...
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Retrieved April 19, 2024. Robenson, Geffrard (April 25, 2024). "Les membres du Conseil présidentiel de transition ont prêté serment, tôt jeudi 25 avril 2024,...
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the original on 2022-08-27. Retrieved 2022-08-27. "Présidence du Haut conseil des rois du Bénin:Kpodégbé Lanmanfan reconduit pour un nouveau mandat"...
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Congo Crisis (section Second Mobutu coup d'état)
aide and a lieutenant-colonel in the army, broke this deadlock with a coup d'état, expelled the Soviet advisors and established a new government effectively...
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opted for political sovereignty and limited economic integration with the Conseil de l'Entente. Then, by means of controversial manoeuvres, Yaméogo eliminated...
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@Starlink (August 28, 2024). "Starlink is now available in Botswana and Ghana" (Tweet). Retrieved August 28, 2024 – via Twitter. @Starlink (September...
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Giorgos Gerapetritis (section Ghana)
postgraduate research in the United Kingdom and also a Fellow at the French Conseil d’Etat. In 2003, he was a German Marshal Memorial Fund Fellow and in 2012 he...
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power in Ghana in 1966, took part in the failed coup against Mathieu Kérékou in Benin in 1977, was suspected of involvement in the 1987 coup d'état that removed...
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d'Abobo et de Bassam par des hommes en uniforme" (Press release). COSIM Conseil supérieur des imams, Abidjan.net BAMBA, Affoussy (18 December 2010). "Activités...
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terms from four constituencies. A second body, the Council of State (Conseil d'État), composed of 21 ordinary citizens appointed by the grand duke, advises...
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another coup. A coup d'état organized by Blaise Compaoré made Sankara President on 4 August 1983 at the age of 33. The coup d'état was supported by Libya...
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Présence africaine, c1959. Discours de Monsieur Sékou Touré, Président du Conseil de Gouvernement des 28 juillet et 25 aout 1958, de Monsieur Diallo Saifoulaye...
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1993 Burundian coup attempt (redirect from 1993 Burundian coup d'état attempt)
introduced himself to the public in a television broadcast as President of the Conseil National de Salut Public—a body which did not exist—and announced the displacement...
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followed by dicatorial rule of the Duvalier family (1957–1986). After a coup d'état in 2004, the United Nations intervened. In 2010, a catastrophic earthquake...
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