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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.
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.
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
1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état: Government of Equatorial Guinea: Supreme Military Council: Defeat. Coup attempt successful; Francisco Macías Nguema is imprisoned and executed on September 29, 1979; 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt: Equatorial Guinea: Private mercenaries Victory. Coup plot fails; Coup plotters arrested 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 ...
23 January 1963 – 10 September 1974 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence; 14 November 1980 1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état; 1998 – 1999 Guinea-Bissau Civil War. 7 June 1998 1998 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt; 14 September 2003 2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état; 26 December 2011 2011 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt; 12 April 2012 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup ...
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 ...