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1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état: Prime Minister and commander of the armed forces, João Bernardo Vieira, overthrew the government. 1980 Surinamese coup d'état (also known as the Sergeants' Coup): A group of military officers, led by Dési Bouterse, overthrew the government of Prime Minister Henck Arron. The coup began a military dictatorship ...
August 15, 1975: Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad overthrew the BaKSAL government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. [18] November 3, 1975: Khaled Mosharraf overthrew the government set up by the August coup. [19] November 7, 1975: Soldiers from the Bangladesh Army overthrew and killed Khaled Mosharraf just a few days after he took power. [20]
Caamaño was one of the leaders in the movement to restore the democratically elected president Juan Bosch, who had been overthrown in a military coup d'état in September, 1963. He briefly became President before being removed by an invasion launched by the United States, who were fearing another Communist state in the Caribbean
There have been multiple coups over the past three years in Africa’s former French colonies – Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Tunisia and now Gabon – that threaten a reversal of the ...
The plotters were soon arrested by the Gabonese government. [49] 2019 Sudanese coup d'état: 10 April 2019: Coup Sudan: Lt. Gen. Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf: President Omar al-Bashir: Sudanese soldiers, led by the former First Vice President, attacked the presidential palace and overthrew the President and his government, resulting in the new government ...
Over the past two decades, dozens of lawmakers have faced bans, parties have been dissolved and prime ministers have been overthrown in coups or by court decisions – with the judiciary playing a ...
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
By RYAN GORMAN Two American citizens have been charged with plotting to overthrow the government of a small African country. Former U.S. Army and Air Force enlistee Papa Faal, 46, and businessman ...