On 5 September 2021, President of Guinea Alpha Condé was captured by the country's armed forces in a coup d'état after gunfire in the capital, Conakry.Special forces commander Mamady Doumbouya released a broadcast on state television announcing the dissolution of the constitution and government.. After several decades of authoritarian rule in Guinea, Condé was …

The 1999 military takeover in Pakistan was a bloodless coup d'état initiated by the military staff at the Joint Staff HQ working under Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Pervez Musharraf.The instigators seized control of the civilian government of the publicly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999. On 14 October, General Musharraf, acting as the …

A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw—Myanmar's military—which then vested power in a military junta.Acting president Myint Swe proclaimed a year-long state of emergency and declared power had been …

The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (Turkish: 12 Eylül Darbesi), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum.. During the Cold War era, Turkey saw political violence (1976–1980) between far-left, far-right (Grey Wolves), …

The coup attempt On the afternoon of 28 July 1958 the insurgents' yacht arrived off Montrouis , in an area known as Déluge, about forty-five miles north of Port-au-Prince. The three Haitians, in military uniform, and the five Americans, dressed as tourists, began transferring weapons and supplies from the Molly C to a small beach cabin.

Le coup de Prague est le nom donné à la prise de contrôle de la Tchécoslovaquie en février 1948 par le Parti communiste tchécoslovaque, avec le soutien de l'Union soviétique, aboutissant au remplacement de la Troisième République par un régime communiste.Du 17 au 25 février 1948 se déroule une crise politique, accentuée le 21 par la démission des ministres non-communistes …

Cette page liste les chefs d'État argentins depuis l'indépendance de l'Argentine.Le titre officiel depuis l'investiture de Bernardino Rivadavia en 1826, est président de la Nation argentine [1]. Au cas où la fonction de président de la Nation devenait vacante, c'est le président provisoire du Sénat qui est chargé de l'intérim. Le président de la Nation par intérim, porte alors le ...

Un coup d'État est un renversement du pouvoir par une personne investie d'une autorité, de façon illégale et souvent brutale [1].On le distingue d'une révolution en ce que celle-ci est populaire. Le putsch est un coup d'État réalisé par la force des armes.. D'un point de vue historique, et y compris dans l'époque contemporaine, le coup d'État a été l'un des moyens les plus ...

In November 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party of South Vietnam was deposed by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with his handling of both the Buddhist crisis and the Viet Cong threat to the regime. In South Vietnam, the coup was referred to as Cách mạng 1-11-63 ("1 November 1963 Revolution").

The March 1949 Syrian coup d'état was a bloodless coup d'état that took place on 30 March, and was the first military coup in modern Syrian history which overthrew the country's democratically elected government. It was led by the Syrian Army chief of staff, Husni al-Za'im, who became President of Syria on 11 April 1949. Among the officers that assisted al-Za'im's takeover were …