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    two men quickly disagreed. In December 1962, Mamadou Dia was arrested under suspicion of fomenting a coup d'état. He was held in prison for 12 years. Following...
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    A coup d'état, often abbreviated to coup, is the overthrow of a lawful government through illegal means. If force or violence are not involved, such an...
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  • The 1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt began on 30 July 1981 and was quashed in early August following a Senegalese military intervention. The insurrection...
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  • Gambian coup d'état attempt broke out during the night of 30 December 2014, when gunfire erupted in the Gambian capital of Banjul. At the time of the coup attempt...
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  • A coup d'état occurred in March 2003 in the Central African Republic when the forces of General François Bozizé marched on Bangui, the country's capital...
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    The 2008 Guinean coup d'état occurred in Guinea on 23 December 2008, shortly after the death of long-time President Lansana Conté. A junta called the...
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    Dawda Jawara (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    400 to 800 deaths reported by the end of the coup attempt. Following the coup attempt, Jawara and Senegalese President Abdou Diouf announced the creation...
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  • Senegal is multi-ethnic, not coup-proofed, and has never attempted a coup d'état, which is a rarity in Africa. Harmonious Senegalese civil-military relations...
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    "Fishball Revolution" in Mong Kok, Hong Kong 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, a failed military coup. 2017–present: Anglophone Crisis, also known as the Ambazonia...
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    Idi Amin (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    him for misappropriating army funds, so he launched the 1971 Ugandan coup d'état and declared himself president. During his years in power, Amin shifted...
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    Gambian coup d'état attempt was an attempt to overthrow the incumbent government when the PPP was in power. It was a civilian led coup-attempt with some...
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    Mamadou Dia (category Senegalese Democratic Bloc politicians)
    1910 – 25 January 2009) was a Senegalese politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Senegal from 1957 until 1962, when he was forced to resign...
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    remained in this position until 1994. A coup, led by Kukoi Sanyang, was attempted in 1981 but failed after Senegalese intervention. From 1981 to 1989, the...
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    head of government which he held since 1962. President Sir Dawda Jawara was re-elected five times. An attempted coup on 29 July 1981 followed a weakening...
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  • Gambia just outside the capital Banjul. During the 1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt a Senegalese military helicopter was shot down trying to recapture the station...
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    dissolved in 1992.  Niger – democratization in 1991, but Coup d'état in 1996.  Nigeria – Coup d'état in 1985.  Norway – The Communist Party of Norway changed...
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    Léon M'ba (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    Jean-Hilaire Aubame briefly assumed the office of president through a coup d'état in February 1964, but order was restored days later when the French intervened...
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  • After the death of Sékou Touré in 1984, the military took power in a coup d'état and released many of the political prisoners at Camp Boiro. Many of the...
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  • several units of N'Djamena's gendarmerie killed Tombalbaye during a coup. The coup d'état that terminated Tombalbaye's government received an enthusiastic...
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    support an uprising to heart, and began fighting, hoping to trigger a coup d'état. However, when no US support came, Iraqi generals remained loyal to Saddam...
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  • Allies in World War II was broadcast to the Japanese people, and the attempted coup d'état to prevent that from happening The Life of Na Woon-gyu (Korean:...
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    entire Sheikh family was assassinated on 15 August 1975 during a military coup d'état. Only Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, who were visiting West Germany...
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    Infantry. Between October, 1930 and August, 1931, he served in the 16th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment (16th RTS) in Cahors. He was sent to Morocco with...
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    been a member state of the African Union since 1963. The present-day Senegalese president, Macky Sall, is currently serving as the African Union's chairperson...
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    Mali War (category Coup-based civil wars)
    2012. On 22 March 2012, President Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted in a coup d'état over his handling of the crisis, a month before a presidential election...
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  • Trump FeesMustFall Nuit debout 2016 Gabonese protests 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt 2016–17 South Korean protests Dakota Access Pipeline protests 2016...
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    and Opération Turquoise in 1994), Togo (1986), Senegal (prevent a coup d'état in 1962) and Sierra Leone (Operation Simbleau in 1992). France often intervened...
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    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 Thomas Sankara...
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    governed Cape Verde, from its independence in 1975 to 1980. After the 1980 coup d'état in Guinea-Bissau, the Cape Verdean branch of the PAIGC was converted...
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    military coup d'état later in 1923. On September 13, 1923, General Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marqués de Estella, seized power in a military coup d'état. General...
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