1991 Lesotho coup d'état

A coup d'état took place in Lesotho on 30 April 1991, led by Colonel Elias Ramaena.^[1] It led to the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Lekhanya.

Colonel Ramaena besieged the government and forced Prime Minister Lekhanya to resign. During Ramaena's two years in power, a new constitution restoring the powers of the Parliament was adopted. Multi-party elections were held on 27 March 1993, with the assistance of the Secretariat of the Commonwealth, at the request of the government.

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↑ "Tenue d'élections multipartites au Lesotho | Perspective Monde". http://perspective.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/servlet/BMEve?codeEve=770. Retrieved 2015-07-14.

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1990s	Mali (1991)^c Lesotho (1991)^c Soviet Union (1991) Haiti (1991)^c Georgia (1991–1992)^c Thailand (1992) Venezuela (1992) Peru (1992)^‡ Sierra Leone (1992)^c Algeria (1992) Guatemala (1993)^‡ Azerbaijan (1993)^c Russia (1993)^‡ Burundi (1993) Nigeria (1993)^c The Gambia (1994)^c Lesotho (1994)^‡ Azerbaijan (1995) Qatar (1995)^c Burundi (1996)^c Niger (1996)^c Turkey (1997)^c Zambia (1997) Lesotho (1998) Republic of the Congo (1998) Niger (1999)^c Pakistan (1999)^c Côte d'Ivoire (1999)^c

2000s	Fiji (2000)^c Ecuador (2000)^c Burundi (2001) Central African Republic (2001) Venezuela (2002) Central African Republic (2003) Philippines (2003) São Tomé and Príncipe (2003) Chad (2004) Haiti (2004)^c Equatorial Guinea (2004) Mauritania (2005)^c Philippines (2006) Chad (2006) Thailand (2006)^c Madagascar (2006) Fiji (2006)^c Laos (2007) Philippines (2007) Turkey (2007) East Timor (2008) Mauritania (2008)^c Guinea (2008)^c Madagascar (2009)^c Honduras (2009)^c

2010s	Niger (2010)^c Guinea-Bissau (2010)^c Ecuador (2010) Democratic Republic of the Congo (2011) Mali (2012)^c Guinea-Bissau (2012)^c Central African Republic (2012–13) Egypt (2013)^c Libya (2013) South Sudan (2013) Libya (2014) Thailand (2014)^c Lesotho (2014) Yemen (2014–15)^c Burundi (2015)

^c coup ^‡ self-coup

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