List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010

This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010 which either succeeded or failed. A list of revolutions and rebellions can be found here: list of revolutions and rebellions.

Coups and attempts since 2010

Africa

Event	Date	Type	Country	Coup leader(s)	Head of state/government	Notes	Ref(s)
2010 Nigerien coup d'état	18 February	Coup	Niger	Chef d'escadron Salou Djibo	President Mamadou Tandja	President kidnapped and opposition leader elected into power.	[1]
2010 Guinea-Bissau unrest	1 April	Attempt	Guinea-Bissau	Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army Antonio Ndjai	Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior	The head of the army was captured and the Prime Minister was briefly arrested by military officers.	[2]
2010 Madagascar coup d'état attempt	17 – 18 November	Attempt	Madagascar	Ex-Defence Minister N. Rakotonandrasanana and Colonel C. Andrianasoaviana, Head of the Special Intervention Force	President Andry Rajoelina		[3]
2011 Egyptian coup d'état	11 February	Coup	Egypt	Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawi	President Hosni Mubarak	Following mass protests and an army’s communiqué, Mubarak resigned. According to art.84 of 1971 Egyptian constitution, speaker of the People's Assembly Sorour should have succeeded him, but Tantawi took power instead.	[4][5][6][7]
2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état attempt	27 February	Attempt	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Unknown	President Joseph Kabila Kabange	Six people were killed in an attack on a residence of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.	[8]
2011 Niger coup d'état attempt	26 July	Attempt	Niger	Unknown	President Mahamadou Issoufou	Five soldiers were arrested.	[9]
2011 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt	26 December	Attempt	Guinea-Bissau	Navy Chief Natchuto Bubo	President Malam Bacai Sanha		[10]
2012 Malian coup d'état	22 March	Coup	Mali	Captain Amadou Sanogo	President Amadou Toumani Touré		[11]
2012 Malawian constitutional crisis	5 April	Attempt	Malawi	Peter Mutharika	President Joyce Banda		[12]
2012 Malian counter-coup d'état attempt	30 April – 1 May	Attempt	Mali	Amadou Toumani Touré's loyalists	Acting President Dioncounda Traoré, Acting Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and coup leader and Chairperson of the National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy and State of Mali Captain Amadou Sanogo		[13][14]
2012 Ivorian coup d'état attempt	13 June	Attempt	Ivory Coast	Laurent Gbagbo loyalists	President Alassane Ouattara		[15]
2012 Sudanese coup d'état attempt	22 November	Attempt	Sudan	Unknown	President Omar al-Bashir		[16]
2013 Eritrean Army mutiny	21 January	Attempt	Eritrea	Unknown	President Isaias Afwerki		[17]
2013 Benin coup d'état attempt	4 March	Attempt	Benin	Colonel Pamphile Zomahoun	President Boni Yayi		[18]
April 2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt	17 April	Attempt	Libya	Muammar Gaddafi loyalists	Prime Minister Ali Zeidan		[19]
2013 Comoros coup d'état attempt	20 April	Attempt	Comoros	Unknown	President Ikililou Dhoinine		[20]
2013 Chadian coup d'état attempt	1 May	Attempt	Chad	Unknown	President Idriss Déby	At least four soldiers killed. Arrest of two generals and an MP.	[21][22]
2013 Egyptian coup d'état	3 July	Coup	Egypt	General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi	President Mohamed Morsi	Protests and subsequent military coup oust President Mohamed Morsi and his elected government.	[23][24][25]
October 2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt	10 October	Attempt	Libya	Abdel-Moneim al-Hour	Prime Minister Ali Zeidan		[26]
2013 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état attempt	30 December	Attempt	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Paul-Joseph Mukungubila	President Joseph Kabila Kabange		[27]
February 2014 Libyan coup d'état attempt	14 February	Attempt	Libya	Major General Khalifa Haftar	Prime Minister Ali Zeidan		[28]
May 2014 Libyan coup d'état attempt	18 May	Attempt	Libya	Major General Khalifa Haftar	Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani		[29]
2014 Lesotho political crisis	30 August	Attempt	Lesotho	Lieutenant General Kennedy Tlai Kamoli and Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing	Prime Minister Tom Thabane	Failed coup lead to early elections.	[30]
2014 Gambian coup d'état attempt	30 December	Attempt	Gambia	Lieutenant Colonel Lamin Sanneh	President Yahya Jammeh		[31][32]
2015 Burundian coup d'état attempt	13 May	Attempt	Burundi	General Godefroid Niyombare	President Pierre Nkurunziza	Three coup leaders arrested whilst Niyombare remains on the run.	[33]
2015 Burkinabé coup d'état	17 September	Attempt	Burkina Faso	General Gilbert Diendéré	President Michel Kafando	Coup fails and the Regiment of Presidential Security is dissolved.	[34][35][36]
2016 Burkinabé coup d'état attempt	8 October	Attempt	Burkina Faso	Gaston Coulibaly	President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré	Failed coup attempt	[37][38][39]
2016 Libyan coup d'état attempt	14 October – Present	Ongoing	Libya	Prime Minister Khalifa al-Ghawil (claimed)	Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj (claimed)		[40]
2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis	9 December 2016 – 21 January 2017	Attempt	Gambia	Government of Gambia	President Yahya Jammeh	The dispute President Yahya Jammeh surrendered presidential duties in favour of Barrow and left the country to exile in Equatorial Guinea after two days after his Presidency deadline.	[41]
2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état	14 – 21 November	Coup	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe defence forces under Major General Constantino Chiwenga	President Robert Mugabe	After military movements are seen and explosions heard in government districts in northern Harare, the ZDF takes over state television and says that President Mugabe is in its custody, but denies mounting a coup. On 21 November, the coup ended with the resignation of Robert Mugabe.	[42][43]
2017 Equatoguinean coup d'état attempt	27 – 28 December 2017	Attempt	Equatorial Guinea	Unknown	President Francisco Macías Nguema		[44][45]

A tank in downtown Harare

Asia

Thai soldiers at the Chang Phueak Gate in Chiang Mai.

Event	Date	Type	Country	Coup leader(s)	Head of state/government	Notes	Ref(s)
2011 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt	December	Attempt	Bangladesh	Major Syed Ziaul Haque	Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina		[46]
2014 Thai coup d'état	22 May	Coup	Thailand	General Prayuth Chan-ocha	Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan	2013–14 Thai political crisis and subsequent military coup oust Thai elected government, replaced by the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council.	[47]
2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état	21 September – 6 February	Coup	Yemen	Houthis	President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi	Coup resulted in Yemeni Civil War (2015)	[48]
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt	15 – 16 July	Attempt	Turkey	Turkish Peace Council	President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; Government of Turkey	Failed attempt by factions of different branches of the armed forces at gaining control of the government.	[49][50]
Filipino coup plot	20 September	Attempt	Philippines	Unknown	President Rodrigo Duterte	The Filipino government claimed that a coup is being plotted against President Rodrigo Duterte by Filipino-Americans living in New York City.	[51][52]
2018 Yemeni coup d'état	28 – 31 January 2018	Coup	Yemen	Southern Transitional Council	President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi		[53]

Europe

Event	Date	Type	Country	Coup leader(s)	Head of state/government	Notes	Ref(s)
Abkhaz Revolution of 2014	27 May – 1 June	Attempt	Abkhazia	Raul Khadjimba	President Aleksandr Ankvab	Eventually led to Ankvab resigning and Valeri Bganba becoming the acting president.	[54]
Montenegrin coup plot	16 October	Attempt	Montenegro	Pro-Russian loyalists	President Filip Vujanović Prime Minister Duško Marković		[55]

Oceania

Event	Date	Type	Country	Coup leader(s)	Head of state/government	Notes	Ref(s)
2012 Papua New Guinea Defence Force mutiny	26 January	Small-scale mutiny, described by some as a coup attempt.	Papua New Guinea	Colonel Yaura Sasa	Prime Minister Peter O'Neill		[56]

South America

"If you want to kill the president, here he is. Kill me, if you want to. Kill me if you are brave enough!" President Rafael Correa shouted at the policemen.

Event	Date	Type	Country	Coup leader(s)	Head of state/government	Notes	Ref(s)
2010 Ecuador crisis	30 September	Attempt	Ecuador	Unknown	President Rafael Correa	President Correa was attacked, then temporarily trapped in a hospital in what the secretary-general of the Organization of American States called "a coup d'etat in the making". He was later rescued by loyal troops.	[57][58]
2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis	29 March	Coup	Venezuela	Government of Venezuela	President Nicolas Maduro	National Assembly dissolved of legislative powers and stripped of parliamentary immunity. Supreme Court assumes control of legislative powers.	[59][60]
2017 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt	8 August	Attempt	Venezuela	Unknown	President Nicolas Maduro		[61][62][63][64]

See also

• Coup d'état
• List of coups d'état and coup attempts by country
• List of revolutions and rebellions (chronological listing)

References

External links

• Coups in the World, 1950-Present - Database on coups and coup attempts 1950–present, by Jonathan Powell and Clayton Thyne.
• Coups d'Etat, 1946-2013 - List of coups and coup attempts 1946-2013, by the Center for Systemic peace.