Military Wiki
in: All articles with dead external links, Articles with dead external links from July 2018, Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters,
and 8 more

List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010

Sign in to edit
Main article: List of coups d'état and coup attempts

This is a list about coups d'états, coup attempts and coup plots since 2010 which either succeeded or failed. A list of revolutions and rebellions can be found here: list of revolutions and rebellions.

Coups and attempts since 2010[]

Africa[]

Event Date Type Country Coup leader(s) Head of state/government Notes Ref(s)
2010 Nigerien coup d'état 18 February Coup  Niger Chef d'escadron Salou Djibo President Mamadou Tandja President kidnapped and opposition leader elected into power. [1]
2010 Guinea-Bissau unrest 1 April Attempt  Guinea-Bissau Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army Antonio Ndjai		 Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior The head of the army was captured and the Prime Minister was briefly arrested by military officers. [2]
2010 Madagascar coup d'état attempt 17 – 18 November Attempt  Madagascar Ex-Defence Minister N. Rakotonandrasanana and Colonel C. Andrianasoaviana, Head of the Special Intervention Force President Andry Rajoelina [3]
2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état attempt 27 February Attempt  Democratic Republic of the Congo Unknown President Joseph Kabila Kabange Six people were killed in an attack on a residence of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. [4]
2011 Niger coup d'état attempt 26 July Attempt  Niger Unknown President Mahamadou Issoufou Five soldiers were arrested. [5]
2011 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt 26 December Attempt  Guinea-Bissau Navy Chief Natchuto Bubo President Malam Bacai Sanha [6] [dead link]
2012 Malian coup d'état 22 March Coup  Mali Captain Amadou Sanogo President Amadou Toumani Touré [7]
2012 Malawian constitutional crisis 5 April Attempt  Malawi Peter Mutharika President Joyce Banda [8]
2012 Malian counter-coup d'état attempt 30 April – 1 May Attempt  Mali Amadou Toumani Touré's loyalists Acting President Dioncounda Traoré, Acting Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and coup leader and Chairperson of the National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy and State of Mali Captain Amadou Sanogo [9][10]
2012 Ivorian coup d'état attempt 13 June Attempt  Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo loyalists President Alassane Ouattara [11]
2012 Sudanese coup d'état attempt 22 November Attempt  Sudan Unknown President Omar al-Bashir [12]
2013 Eritrean Army mutiny 21 January Attempt  Eritrea Unknown President Isaias Afwerki [13]
2013 Benin coup d'état attempt 4 March Attempt  Benin Colonel Pamphile Zomahoun President Boni Yayi [14]
April 2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt 17 April Attempt  Libya Muammar Gaddafi loyalists Prime Minister Ali Zeidan [15]
2013 Comoros coup d'état attempt 20 April Attempt  Comoros Unknown President Ikililou Dhoinine [16]
2013 Chadian coup d'état attempt 1 May Attempt  Chad Unknown President Idriss Déby At least four soldiers killed. Arrest of two generals and an MP. [17][18]
October 2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt 10 October Attempt  Libya Abdel-Moneim al-Hour Prime Minister Ali Zeidan [19]
2013 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état attempt 30 December Attempt  Democratic Republic of the Congo Paul-Joseph Mukungubila President Joseph Kabila Kabange [20]
February 2014 Libyan coup d'état attempt 14 February Attempt  Libya Major General Khalifa Haftar Prime Minister Ali Zeidan [21]
May 2014 Libyan coup d'état attempt 18 May Attempt  Libya Major General Khalifa Haftar Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani [22]
2014 Lesotho political crisis 30 August Attempt  Lesotho Lieutenant General Kennedy Tlai Kamoli and Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing Prime Minister Tom Thabane Failed coup lead to early elections. [23]
2014 Gambian coup d'état attempt 30 December Attempt  Gambia Lieutenant Colonel Lamin Sanneh President Yahya Jammeh [24][25]
2015 Burundian coup d'état attempt 13 May Attempt  Burundi General Godefroid Niyombare President Pierre Nkurunziza Three coup leaders arrested whilst Niyombare remains on the run. [26]
2015 Burkinabé coup d'état 17 September Attempt  Burkina Faso General Gilbert Diendéré President Michel Kafando Coup fails and the Regiment of Presidential Security is dissolved. [27][28][29]
2016 Burkinabé coup d'état attempt 8 October Attempt  Burkina Faso Gaston Coulibaly President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré Failed coup attempt [30][31][32]
2016–18 Libyan coup d'état attempt 14 October – Present Ongoing  Libya Prime Minister Khalifa al-Ghawil
(claimed)		 Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj
(claimed)		 [33]
2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis 9 December 2016 – 21 January 2017 Attempt  Gambia Government of Gambia President Yahya Jammeh The dispute President Yahya Jammeh surrendered presidential duties in favour of Barrow and left the country to exile in Equatorial Guinea after two days after his Presidency deadline. [34]
2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état 14 – 21 November Coup  Zimbabwe Zimbabwe defence forces under Major General Constantino Chiwenga President Robert Mugabe After military movements are seen and explosions heard in government districts in northern Harare, the ZDF takes over state television and says that President Mugabe is in its custody, but denies mounting a coup. On 21 November, the coup ended with the resignation of Robert Mugabe. [35][36]
2017 Equatoguinean coup d'état attempt 27 – 28 December 2017 Attempt  Equatorial Guinea Unknown President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo [37][38]
2019 Gabonese coup d'état attempt 7 January 2019 Attempt  Gabon Lieutenant Kelly Ondo Obiang President Ali Bongo Ondimba Gabonese soldiers seize the national radio and television station declaring the establishment of a "restoration council". The plotters were soon arrested by the Gabonese government. [39]
2019 Sudanese coup d'état 10 April 2019 Coup  Sudan Lt. Gen. Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf President Omar al-Bashir Sudanese soldiers led by former First Vice President attacked the presidential palace and overthrew the President and his government a new government was formed. [40]
2019 Ethiopian coup d'état attempt 22 June 2019 Attempt  Ethiopia Brig. Gen. Asaminew Tsige Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
President of the Amhara Region Ambachew Mekonnen†		 On 22 June Gen. Seare Mekonnen was shot by his bodyguard Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says that he and another officer tried to prevent the coup. A couple of hours before in Bahir Dar, Amhara Region the local governor Ambachew Mekonnen and an adviser were killed. [41]
A tank in harare during the coup

A tank in downtown Harare

Asia[]

2014 0526 Thailand coup Chang Phueak Gate Chiang Mai 02

Thai soldiers at the Chang Phueak Gate in Chiang Mai.

Event Date Type Country Coup leader(s) Head of state/government Notes Ref(s)
2011 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt December Attempt  Bangladesh Major Syed Ziaul Haque Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina [42]
2014 Thai coup d'état 22 May Coup  Thailand General Prayuth Chan-ocha Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan 2013–14 Thai political crisis and subsequent military coup oust Thai elected government, replaced by the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council. [43]
2014–2015 Yemeni coup d'état 21 September – 6 February Coup  Yemen Houthis President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi Coup resulted in Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) [44]
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt 15 – 16 July Attempt  Turkey Peace at Home Council President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; Government of Turkey Failed attempt by factions of different branches of the armed forces at gaining control of the government. [45][46]
2018 Yemeni coup d'état 28 – 31 January 2018 Coup  Yemen Southern Transitional Council President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi [47]

Europe[]

Event Date Type Country Coup leader(s) Head of state/government Notes Ref(s)
Montenegrin coup plot 16 October 2016 Attempt  Montenegro Pro-Russian loyalists President Filip Vujanović
Prime Minister Duško Marković		 [48]

Oceania[]

Event Date Type Country Coup leader(s) Head of state/government Notes Ref(s)
2012 Papua New Guinea Defence Force mutiny 26 January Small-scale mutiny, described by some as a coup attempt.  Papua New Guinea Colonel Yaura Sasa Prime Minister Peter O'Neill [49]

South America[]

Event Date Type Country Coup leader(s) Head of state/government Notes Ref(s)
2010 Ecuador crisis 30 September Attempt  Ecuador Unknown President Rafael Correa President Correa was attacked, then temporarily trapped in a hospital in what the secretary-general of the Organization of American States called "a coup d'etat in the making". He was later rescued by loyal troops. [50][51]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ↑ "Military coup ousts Niger president Mamadou Tandja". 19 February 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8523196.stm. Retrieved 19 May 2018. 
  2. ↑ "Guinea-Bissau leaders held in apparent coup". 1 April 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8599070.stm. Retrieved 1 April 2010. 
  3. ↑ "Madagascar coup attempt fails". 21 November 2010. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/21/madagascar-coup-attempt-fails. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  4. ↑ "DR Congo: Six killed in 'coup bid' against Kabila". 27 February 2011. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12591259. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  5. ↑ "Niger 'foils plot against President Mahamadou Issoufou'". 26 July 2011. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14295391. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  6. ↑ "2011 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt". https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/guinea-bissau-army-official-forces-quelled-attempted-coup-as-ill-leader-seeks-treatment/2011/12/26/gIQAcvpyIP_story.html. 
  7. ↑ "Malian Soldiers Attack Capital in Suspected Coup Attempt". 21 March 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/world/africa/mali-soldiers-attack-capital-in-suspected-coup-attempt.html. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  8. ↑ "Malawi arrests ex-ministers over 'coup plot'". http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130311/malawi-arrests-ex-ministers-over-coup-plot-1. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  9. ↑ "Mali junta says "strangers" behind counter coup". 1 May 2012. https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/01/us-mali-bamako-junta-idUSBRE83T16C20120501. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  10. ↑ "Gunfire erupts in Mali's Bamako, junta claims control". 1 May 2012. https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84000K20120501. Retrieved 17 September 2015. 
  11. ↑ "Ivory Coast claims foiled pro-Gbagbo coup". 13 June 2012. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140226134238/http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/ivory-coast-claims-foiled-pro-gbagbo-coup. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  12. ↑ "International News | World News". Archived from the original on 22 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121122143402/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sudan-foiled-military-coup-attempt-17785064#.VfttsJe-Wcw. Retrieved 20 February 2014.  [dead link]
  13. ↑ "Eritrea's president breaks silence over army mutiny incident". 10 February 2013. http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article45468. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  14. ↑ "Benin foils 'coup attempt' against President Yayi". 4 March 2013. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21653867. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  15. ↑ "Libyan forces foil coup attempt". 15 April 2013. Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130424100909/http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/5737-libyan-forces-foil-coup-attempt. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  16. ↑ "Comores: coup d'État déjoué (autorités)" (in fr). 22 April 2013. http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2013/04/22/97001-20130422FILWWW00479-comores-coup-detat-dejoue-autorites.php. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  17. ↑ "At least 4 dead in Chad coup attempt: security sources". 2 May 2013. https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/02/us-chad-coup-dead-idUSBRE9410OY20130502. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  18. ↑ "Two generals, pro-Deby MP arrested for Chad coup plot: prosecutor". 2 May 2013. https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/02/us-chad-coup-arrests-idUSBRE9410WA20130502. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  19. ↑ "Libya PM Zeidan's brief kidnap was 'attempted coup'". 11 October 2013. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24496357. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  20. ↑ "DR Congo 'repulses' TV, airport and army base attacks". 30 December 2013. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25547424. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  21. ↑ "Libya Military Coup Fears: General Khalifa Haftar Calls for Suspension of Parliament". 14 February 2014. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/libya-military-coup-fears-general-khalifa-haftar-calls-suspension-parliament-1436410. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  22. ↑ "Libya: Rogue General Khalifa Haftar Storms Parliament in Attempted 'Coup'". 18 May 2014. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/libya-rogue-general-khalifa-haftar-storms-parliament-attempted-coup-1449045. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  23. ↑ "Military coup under way in Lesotho". 30 August 2014. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/08/lesotho-military-attempted-coup-201483071742178598.html. Retrieved 12 September 2014. 
  24. ↑ "U.S. Embassy Describes Coup Attempt in Gambia". 30 December 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/world/africa/banjul-gambia.html?ref=world&_r=1. Retrieved 31 December 2014. 
  25. ↑ "Yayha Jammeh: Gambia president 'home after coup plot'". 31 December 2014. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30642157. Retrieved 31 December 2014. 
  26. ↑ "Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza returns to Bujumbura". 15 May 2015. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32755709. Retrieved 15 May 2015. 
  27. ↑ "Soldiers crush protests as military seizes power in Burkina Faso". Reuters. 17 September 2015. https://news.yahoo.com/burkina-faso-military-says-takes-power-dissolves-government-090705810.html. Retrieved 17 September 2015. 
  28. ↑ Brahima Ouedraogo, "Burkina Faso coup leader says he will hand back power", Associated Press, 21 September 2015.
  29. ↑ "Burkina Faso government disbands elite unit behind coup". Reuters. 26 September 2015. http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/09/25/burkina-army-idINKCN0RP2CB20150925. Retrieved 25 September 2015. 
  30. ↑ "Burkina Faso 'foils coup plot by forces loyal to Compaore'". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37731778. 
  31. ↑ "Burkina Faso foiled coup attempt in early October, minister says". https://www.reuters.com/article/us-burkina-plot-idUSKCN12L248. 
  32. ↑ "Au Burkina Faso, le pouvoir affirme avoir déjoué une tentative de coup d'Etat". http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2016/10/21/au-burkina-faso-le-pouvoir-affirme-avoir-dejoue-une-tentative-de-coup-d-etat_5018252_3212.html. 
  33. ↑ "Rump of GNC and Ghwell stage coup, declaring themselves back in power". https://www.libyaherald.com/2016/10/14/gnc-and-ghwell-stage-coup-declaring-themselves-back-in-powe/. 
  34. ↑ "Gambia's Yahya Jammeh confirms he will step down". 21 January 2017. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/gambia-yahya-jammeh-agrees-step-170120184330091.html. Retrieved 20 January 2017. 
  35. ↑ Olewe, Dickens; Chothia, Farouk (November 15, 2017). "Zimbabwe army takes on Mugabe - as it happened". BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-41994362. 
  36. ↑ "Zimbabwe's President Mugabe resigns". 21 November 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-42071488. Retrieved 21 November 2017. 
  37. ↑ "Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea reopen border after four months". 23 April 2018. http://www.cameroonintelligencereport.com/cameroon-equatorial-guinea-reopen-border-after-four-months/. Retrieved 24 April 2018. 
  38. ↑ "Equatorial Guinea: Heavy clashes reported near Ebibeyin Jan. 3 /update 2". 5 January 2018. https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/84461/equatorial-guinea-heavy-clashes-reported-near-ebibeyin-jan-3-update-2. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  39. ↑ "2 soldiers killed and 8 arrested after failed coup attempt in Gabon, government says Jan. 8 /update 2". 8 January 2019. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/africa/gabonese-soldiers-killed-over-coup-intl/index.html. Retrieved 8 January 2019. 
  40. ↑ "Army takes power in Sudan, arresting President Omar Al Bashir - latest". 11 April 2019. https://www.thenational.ae/world/africa/army-takes-power-in-sudan-arresting-president-omar-al-bashir-latest-1.847537. 
  41. ↑ "Ethiopia army chief shot dead in 'coup bid' attacks". 23 June 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48734572. 
  42. ↑ "Bangladesh army 'foils coup' against Sheikh Hasina". 19 January 2012. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16627852. 
  43. ↑ "Thai military says it's taken over the country in a coup". 22 May 2014. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/22/world/asia/thailand-martial-law/index.html?hpt=hp_t2. Retrieved 22 May 2014. 
  44. ↑ "Yemen feuding parties agree on transitional council". 25 February 2015. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/yemen-feuding-parties-agree-transitional-council-150220065456873.html. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  45. ↑ "Turkish Prime Minister Reports Coup Attempt". 15 July 2016. https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkish-prime-minister-reports-coup-attempt-1468613584. Retrieved 15 July 2016. 
  46. ↑ "Turkish premier: Country under full government control after coup attempt". https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2016/07/16/turkish-premier-country-under-full-government-control-after-coup-attempt/. 
  47. ↑ "Yemen PM accuses Houthi separatists of coup after HQ takeover in Aden". 28 January 2018. http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/yemen-pm-accuses-houthi-separatists-of-coup-after-hq-takeover-in-aden-118012800356_1.html. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  48. ↑ "Government Policy on Russia". 6 March 2018. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-03-06/debates/E416F6C5-50D9-47FF-8C3E-0946CE99E6CA/GovernmentPolicyOnRussia. Retrieved 27 July 2018. 
  49. ↑ "PM - Failed coup in PNG 27/01/2012". 4 April 1975. http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3417331.htm. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
  50. ↑ "Ecuador's Correa asserts control as police chief quits". Reuters. 1 October 2010. https://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/01/us-ecuador-correa-idUSTRE68T40I20101001. Retrieved 5 October 2010. 
  51. ↑ Tatiana Coba (30 September 2010). "Protesting police throw Ecuador into chaos". Yahoo! News. https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100930/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_ecuador_protest. Retrieved 5 October 2010. 

External links[]

Coups, self-coups, and attempted coups since 1991
1990s
2000s
2010s
All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL.
The original article can be found at List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010 and the edit history here.
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.