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Decades of post-colonial chaos
"Veni, Vidi, Vici, numquam reliquit - ego adduxit inimici mei !"
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Countries with the most number of coups
No. of coups
Burkina Faso 10
Nigeria 8
Burundi 6
Chad 6
Ghana 6
Comoros 6
Countries with the most number of coups (cont.)
No. of coups
Mauritania 6
Sudan 6
Ethiopia 5
Libya 5
Sierra Leone. 5
CAR 5
Benin 5
“ Of the 40 African countries that have seen coups, Morocco, Kenya, Cameroon are the
three countries where none have been successful. In 12 of those 40 countries, coups
occurred within five years of gaining independence. In total, 23 African countries have
seen at least three coups. Indeed, only 14-around a quarter-of Africa's 54 countries are
yet to experience a military coup.”
"What Is Coup? Zimbabwe Joins 40 African Countries That Have Had Coups," 16.3
Quartz Africa (May 2010)
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This is a list by [African] country of coups d'état and coup attempts, in chronological
order
Algeria 1962, 1965, 1992
Benin 1963, 1965, 1967, 1972, 1977, 2013
Bophuswatana 1994
Burkina Faso 1966, 1980, 1982. 1983 (2), 1987, 1989, 2014, 2015, 2016
Burundi 1966 (2), 1976, 1987, 1996, 2015
