Central editorial office, August 30 (EFE). – The military coup that ousted President Ali Bongo from power in Gabon, the second in a month in Africa, adds to numerous such upheavals on the continent since the beginning of the century.
This is the list of the most important coups in Africa in the last two decades:
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
On March 16, 2003, General François Bozizé declared himself president following a coup in the absence of then-President Ange-Félix Patassé. The latter was already subjected to an attack in May 2001 in which at least seven people were killed.
GUINEA BISSAU
On September 14, 2003, President Kumba Ialá was deposed in a military coup. Henrique Rosa was named interim president. Ialá had already suffered two attempts, in December 2001 and May 2002.
On April 12, 2012, another coup shortly before the second round of presidential elections led to the arrest of interim president Raimundo Pereira and former prime minister Carlos Gomes Júnior. The military justified its intervention by citing the existence of a secret agreement between Bissau and Angola that threatened the country’s sovereignty.
MAURITANIA
On August 3, 2005, President Muauia Uld Sidi Ahmed Talla was overthrown while he was abroad. Back in June 2003, Taya suffered another failed military attack that killed 15 people.
On August 6, 2008, a group of soldiers seized power again and arrested President Sidi Mohamed Uld Sheikh Abdallahi and Prime Minister Yahya Uld Ahmed. On August 14, the military junta appointed Mulay Uld Mohammed as prime minister.
MADAGASCAR
On March 17, 2009, opposition leader Andry Rajoelina, supported by a coup plotter section of the army, appointed himself president of the “Supreme Transitional Authority”.
On March 17, 2010 there was another military coup against President Marc Ravalomanana. The military junta renounced power and handed it over to opposition leader Andry Rajoelina.
NIGER
On February 18, 2010, President Mamadou Tandja was deposed after a group of soldiers stormed the presidential palace. Coup colonel Salou Djibo was appointed head of state.
Leader of the military coup in Niamey (Niger). EFE/EPA/Issifou Djibo
Another new coup took place on July 26, 2023, when Mohamed Bazoum was deposed and arrested by a military coup junta led by Brigadier General Abdourahamane Tiani, who proclaimed himself president on the 28th of that month.
MALI
On March 22, 2012, President Amadou Toumane Touré, who was traveling in Burkina Faso, was overthrown in a coup led by a group of soldiers who accused him of his mismanagement of the crisis in northern Mali, the scene of an armed conflict and Tuareg insurgency. separatists,
On August 18, 2020, a military group deposed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and established the National Council for the Salvation of the People (CNSP), the same body that overthrew interim President Bah Ndaw and his Prime Minister, Moctar Ouané, on May 24, 2021.
GUINEA-CONAKRI
On September 5, 2021, the military overthrew the President of Guinea-Conakry, Alpha Condé, in a coup.
SUDAN
On October 25, 2021, the Sudanese military dissolved the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, who, through his aides, opposed what he saw as a coup.
BURKINA FASO
On January 23, 2022, a group of soldiers seized power and deposed President Roch Kaboré; On September 30 of the same year there was a second coup, in which the interim president Paul Henri Sandaogo was deposed. Captain Ibrahim Traore temporarily took over.
Gabon
On August 30, 2023, a group of soldiers staged a coup, the same day the Electoral Commission announced the victory of President Ali Bongo with 64.27% of the vote in last year’s presidential election. Saturday.
