• precipitated a military coup d'état in April 1992, organized by the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC). By the end of 1993, the Sierra Leone Army (SLA)...
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    The 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état was a coup d'état against the government of Sierra Leone by a group of young military officers led by 25-year-old Captain...
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    coup d'état attempt 1987 Tunisian coup d'état: Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali overthrew President Habib Bourguiba. 1987 Transkei coup d'état Sierra...
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    for questioning on 9 December. Sierra Leonean police chief Fayia Sellu said Koroma was a suspect in the coup attempt, and the government confirmed his...
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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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    motivations for the coup. Promises of a return to civilian rule were fulfilled by Bio. Prior to conducting the election, Sierra Leoneans and international...
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  • strengthened support for Sierra Leone–based ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) troops fighting in Liberia. In December 1992, an alleged coup attempt against the NPRC...
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  • Valentine Strasser (category Sierra Leonean politicians)
    Sierra Leonean military officer who served as head of state of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996. He became the world's youngest Head of State in 1992,...
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    2003) was a Sierra Leonean politician and military officer who served as the second President of Sierra Leone from November 1985 to 29 April 1992. Momoh was...
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  • attempts by country 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état Uwechue, Raph (1991). Africa Who's who. Africa Journal Limited. ISBN 978-0-903274-17-3. "Sierra Leone...
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    1997 and March 1998 when a coup d'état deposed the government. The Constitution is divided into fourteen chapters. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic...
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    First Liberian Civil War (category Coup-based civil wars)
    and forced to flee the country, attempted to overthrow Doe's regime from neighbouring Sierra Leone. The coup attempt failed and Quiwonkpa was killed and...
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    Some of the participants in the alleged 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt were former members of 32 Battalion. Because they were arrested in...
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    Sierra Leone and Guinea were supporting the LURD, while Taylor was supporting opposition factions in both countries. By supporting Sierra Leonean rebels...
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  • covertly entered Liberia through Sierra Leone in an attempt to remove Doe from power. However, Quiwonkpa's coup d'état resulted in failure. Quiwonkpa was...
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    Ernest Bai Koroma (category Sierra Leonean Methodists)
    Ernest Bai Koroma (born 2 October 1953) is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the fourth President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April...
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    soldiers deployed to Monrovia, alongside Ghanaian, Nigerian, Guinean, and Sierra Leonean troops. Some in The Gambia questioned the goal of the mission and others...
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    the Sierra Leonean military in 1997, who used it to carry out a coup d'etat against the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. The former Sierra Leone...
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    Agostinho Neto) and radicals (led by Nito Alves), culminated in an attempted coup d'état, after which the radicals were purged from the party's ranks and...
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    the Sierra Leoneans were sent to Liberia to take over the army by the British government because it had given Liberia a loan." .. "The Sierra Leonean commanders...
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    Nigerian chief General Maxwell Khobe, between Liberian dissidents and the Sierra Leonean Kamajors hunter militia, including chiefs Samuel Hinga Norman and Eddie...
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    experienced military coups d'état – two in Mali, one in Guinea, and two in Burkina Faso. When a fourth member, Niger, experienced a coup d'état in July 2023,...
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    Mark Thatcher as a financial backer of the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt organized by Simon Mann. Various accounts also named the United Kingdom's...
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  • succession crisis. The succession crisis manifested in a 1999 military coup d'état and a violent dispute over the result of the 2000 presidential election...
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    November 2016). "Second NPRC Military Coup and Elections Before Peace". Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan...
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    Tranchi on 7 June, followed in the next two days by the Gambians and Sierra Leoneans. On 11 June, the Japanese attacked and captured Mowdok, though the...
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    October 5 – Gao Yuanyuan, Chinese actress October 6 – Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean football player and coach October 7 Aaron Ashmore, Canadian film and...
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  • a coup d'état. 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan. 1992 – The...
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    to house arrest by order of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. An attempted coup d'état in Ecuador ended only hours after it started, without any violence...
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