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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 ...
Wars involving Spanish Guinea or modern Equatorial Guinea (1968-). Subcategories. ... Spanish Civil War (14 C, 58 P) Pages in category "Wars involving Equatorial Guinea"
Evolution of Spanish possessions and claims in the Gulf of Guinea (1778–1968). Map of Spanish possessions in the Gulf of Guinea in 1897, before the Treaty of Paris (1900). Borders after the agreement of 1900 on the land what would become Spanish Guinea (now Equatorial Guinea). A 1903 stamp of Spanish Guinea Corisco in 1910.
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.
This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days.
Equatorial Guinea, [a] officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, [b] is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. It has an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location near both the Equator and in the African region of Guinea.
Canton Civic Center at 800 Flea Market Road hosts the First Monday Trade Days. [4] Historic Canton Main Street banner Canton is the location of the Van Zandt County courthouse. A glimpse of Canton across the street from the courthouse. Canton is a city in and the county seat of Van Zandt County in East Texas, United States. It is located about ...
Equatorial Guinea: Contested islands in Corisco Bay, valuable for their oil. [22] [23] Several islands in the Congo River Republic of the Congo DR Congo: Most of the boundary in the Congo River remains undefined. [24] An island in the Ntem River Cameroon Equatorial Guinea [25] Several villages near the Okpara River Benin Nigeria