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    The 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état was a military coup staged on 26 October 1972 by Major (later General) Mathieu Kérékou, who took control of the Republic...
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    The Coup Belt (French: la ceinture de coups d'État) is a modern geopolitical concept and neologism which emerged during the 2020s to describe the region...
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    dictatorial powers in a self-coup on 17 October. 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état: Major Mathieu Kérékou led a coup that overthrew the Dahomeyan Presidential Council...
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  • The 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état was staged on October 28, 1963, by Christophe Soglo, who took control of the Republic of Dahomey to prevent a civil war...
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    v t e Coups d'état in Africa since 1960 1960s Republic of the Congo (1960)c Ethiopia (1960) Rwanda (1961) French Algeria (1961) Somalia (1961) Senegal...
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  • 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 the government...
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    1961 to 1963 he was an aide-de-camp to Dahomeyan President Hubert Maga. Following Maurice Kouandété's coup d'état in December 1967, Kérékou, who was his...
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    culturally, and it was safer to film there than in Haiti. 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état Sahel-Benin Union Le Vine, Victor T. (2004). Politics in Francophone...
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    Retrieved 2021-07-28. "Army Takes Power in Dahomey Coup", The Washington Post, p. A22, 27 October 1972, retrieved 2008-12-24. Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku...
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    was sentenced to death in absentia. On 16 January 1977 an attempted coup d'état took place in Benin with a group of armed men led by renowned French...
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