African Unification Front
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THE PROCESS OF COUP D'ETAT IN AFRICA
Coup d'Etat in Africa is usually carried out by Police or the Army, although there have been at least two major Coups that were led by Air Force Units or air defense commanders (Kenya, Ghana). There have also been several high profile coups led by civilian parties, students, and by guerrilas and paramilitary underground organizations, organised without recourse to formal military training.
EPLF Troops Liberating Asmara in May 1991
The vast majority of coups fail to achieve their intended goals (usually the overthrow of government). They, however, produce a result that is consistent with the systemic upheaval in Africa, and serve to alter the political situations in ways that are significant for the whole of Africa. The process of coup d'etat reveals potent dynamics of social and political organization in Africa, and exposes underlying grievances that need to be addressed.
African Coup d'etat, Insurrections, & Wars Since the Colonial Occupation
Chad-France, 1899-1900
Ethiopia (civil war), 1914-1917
World War I, 1914-1918
Ethiopian-Italian War, 1935-1936
World War II, 1939-1945
Egypt (coup d'etat), 1952
Yemen (coup d'etat), 1955
Suez or Sinai War or the 1956 War (Israel-Egypt, 1956
Rwanda (civil war), 1959-1961
Congo (civil war), 1960-1965
Angola-Portugal, 1961-1974
Mozambique-Portugal, 1962-1974
Algeria-Morocco, 1963
Kenya-Somalia, 1963-1968
Sudan (coup d'etat), 1964
Ghana (coup d.etat), 1966
Nigeria (civil war), 1967-1970
Six Day War (Israel-Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq), 1967
Sudan (coup d'etat), 1968
Somalia (coup d'etat), 1969
Ghana (coup d.etat), 1972
Madagascar (coup d'etat), 1972
October War or Yom Kippur War/War of Ramadan (Israel-Egypt, Syria) 1973
Ethiopia (coup d'etat), 1974
Ethiopia (civil war), 1975
Ghana (coup d.etat), 1975-1981
Ethiopia-Somalia, 1977-1978
Seychelles (coup d'etat), 1978
Tanzania-Uganda (conventional war), 1978-1981
Central African Empire (coups d'etat), 1979
Guinea-Bissau (coup d'etat), 1980
Central African Empire (coup d'etat), 1982
Kenya (coup d'etat), 1982
Uganda (coup d'etat), 1985
Uganda (civil war), 1987 - present
Libya-United States, 1986
Senegal (border clashes), 1989-1990
Rwanda (civil war), 1990-1994
Somalia-United States, 1992-1994
Sierra Leone, 1995-Present
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, 1996-1998
Eritrea, Ethiopia 1997-Present
Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Chad, Burundi (war), 1998-present
Rwanda - 1990-present
Burundi - 1988-present
Djibouti - (coup attempt), 2000
Chad - Coup attempt 2001
Sudan, 1983-Present
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