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Decades of post-colonial chaos

"Veni, Vidi, Vici, numquam reliquit - ego adduxit inimici mei !"

Coups d'état and coup attempts, (cont.)

Tunisia 1957,1987

Uganda 1966, 1971, 1980, 1985, 1986
Zanzibar January 12, 1964

Zambia 1990, 1997
Zimbabwe 2007, 2017

Source : "List of Coups and Coup Attempts by Country", Wikipedia 164

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Mercenaries

“ Starting in the 1960s, white mercenaries such as Colonel "Mad Mike" Hoare, Taffy

Williams, Bob Denard, Siegfried "Kongo Killer" Müller, Jean Schramme, Rolf Steiner, and
Roger Faulques played a prominent role in various wars in Africa, attracting much media
attention in the West. During the Congo crisis of 1960–65, the poorly trained and led

Congolese Army had almost disintegrated, allowing a situation where a relatively small
number of mercenaries had an over-sized impact on the fighting, which was widely

misunderstood in the West as proving the innate superiority of white soldiers over black.
The exploits of these men led to the glorification of the mercenary lifestyle in magazines
such as Soldier of Fortune, together with countless pulp novels and a number of films . “

"Mercenary," 165
Wikipedia
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Coups and murder: the sinister world of apartheid's secret mercenaries

“ But appearances were deceptive. Beneath the bizarre trappings lurked a powerful
mercenary outfit that members claim was entwined with the apartheid state and offered

soldiers for hire across the continent.

"It was clandestine operations. We were involved in coups, taking over countries for other
leaders," said Alexander Jones, who has detailed his years as an intelligence officer with
the group. SAIMR's leaders described themselves as "anti-communist" to him at the time,

but the group was underpinned by racism, he said. "We were trying to retain the white
supremacy on the African continent."