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Map of Equatorial Guinea. On 7 March 2004 Zimbabwean police in Harare airport impounded a plane which flew in from South Africa. [2] The alleged plot leader, ex-Special Air Service (SAS) officer Simon Mann, [3] was arrested with two colleagues near the runway while waiting for arms to be loaded on a Boeing 727 (N4610), carrying three crew and 64 former soldiers recruited in South Africa. [4]
The 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état happened on August 3, 1979, when President Francisco Macías Nguema's nephew, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, overthrew him in a bloody coup. Fighting between loyalists and rebels continued until Macías Nguema was captured fleeing for Cameroon on August 18.
On 21 November, the coup ended with the resignation of Robert Mugabe. [45] [46] 2017 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt: 27 – 28 December 2017: Attempt Equatorial Guinea: Unknown: President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo [47] [48] 2019 Gabonese coup d'état attempt: 7 January 2019: Attempt Gabon: Lt. Kelly Ondo Obiang: President Ali Bongo Ondimba
The 2017 Equatoguinean coup attempt was the failed coup d'état in Equatorial Guinea by foreign mercenaries against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema's government. The coup attempt began on December 24, when foreign mercenaries hailing from the countries of Chad, Sudan, and the Central African Republic (CAR) infiltrated Kye Ossi, Ebibeyin, Mongomo, Bata and Malabo, aiming to attack the president ...
The recent coups in Africa are attempts by militaries to save their countries from presidents' “broken promises," the head of Guinea’s junta said Thursday as he rebuffed the West for boxing in ...
On 7 March 2004, Mann is alleged to have led the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt. He was arrested by Zimbabwean police in Harare airport [1] [2] along with 64 other mercenaries. [3] [4] He eventually served three years of a four-year prison sentence in Zimbabwe, [5] and less than two years of a 34 years and four months sentence in ...
It estimated Guinea's 2008 coup and one in Mali in 2012 wiped a combined $12-$13.5 billion off the two countries' economies over a 5-year period. ... "Coups, in general, in Africa or anywhere else ...
3 August – Dictator Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea was overthrown in a bloody coup d'état led by his nephew, Teodoro Obiang [2]; 18 August – Ousted dictator Francisco Macías Nguema is captured near his home village of Mongomo.