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    The 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état was a military coup staged on 26 October 1972 by Major (later General) Mathieu Kérékou, who took control of the Republic...
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  • The 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état was staged on October 28, 1963, by Christophe Soglo, who took control of the Republic of Dahomey to prevent a civil war...
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    dictatorial powers in a self-coup on 17 October. 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état: Major Mathieu Kérékou led a coup that overthrew the Dahomeyan Presidential Council...
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    forces to agree to dialogue, Soglo again overthrew the government in November 1965 and served as President of Benin under a military government until December...
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  • 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 the government...
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    The Coup Belt (French: la ceinture de coups d'État) is a modern geopolitical concept and neologism which emerged during the 2020s to describe the region...
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    culturally, and it was safer to film there than in Haiti. 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état Sahel-Benin Union Le Vine, Victor T. (2004). Politics in Francophone...
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    was sentenced to death in absentia. On 16 January 1977 an attempted coup d'état took place in Benin with a group of armed men led by renowned French mercenary...
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    Hubert Maga (category Dahomeyan Democratic Rally politicians)
    1957 to 1965, making Dahomey's economy one of the weakest in Africa. Meanwhile, Maga made Houphouët-Boigny recognize the R.D.D. as the Dahomeyan wing of...
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    Maurice Kouandété (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    as well as, by extension, the entire Fon hierarchy, who dominated the Dahomeyan military. He grew in popularity among junior northern soldiers while those...
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    and song officer". In Dahomeyan coups in 1963 and 1965, Alley urged General Christophe Soglo to seize power. After the 1965 coup, Soglo promoted Alley...
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    Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    Ahomadégbé on May 7, 1972. On October 26, 1972, he was overthrown in a coup d'état led by Mathieu Kérékou. All three remained under house arrest until 1981...
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    Union and Progress (CUP) over the Ottoman Empire following the 1913 coup d'état is often considered the first one-party state. One-party states justify...
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    Adrien Degbey (10 May 1918 – 14 April 1971) was a Dahomeyan politician. Adrien Degbey was born on 10 May 1918 in Dogbo in French Dahomey (now known as...
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    original on 2021-07-28. Retrieved 2021-07-28. "Army Takes Power in Dahomey Coup", The Washington Post, p. A22, 27 October 1972, retrieved 2008-12-24. Akyeampong...
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    country's government in the 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état. Nicéphore and Rosine Soglo were forced to flee into exile following the coup and remained abroad for 18...
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    Christophe Soglo, the military officer who took control of Dahomey in a coup d'état two months earlier, forced the resignation of former president Hubert...
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