List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010

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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

Coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010

Event	Date	Type	Country	Coup leader	Head of state/government	Notes
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
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.
2010 Ecuador crisis	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.
2010 Madagascar coup d'état attempt	17-18 November	Attempt	Madagascar	Ex-Defense Minister N. Rakotonandrasanana and Colonel C. Andrianasoaviana, Head of the Special Intervention Force	President Andry Rajoelina
2011 Egyptian coup d'état	February 11	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.
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.
2011 Niger coup d'état attempt	26 July	Attempt	Niger	Unknown	President Mahamadou Issoufou	Five soldiers were arrested.
2011 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt	26 December	Attempt	Guinea-Bissau	Navy Chief Natchuto Bubo	President Malam Bacai Sanha
2011 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt	December	Attempt	Bangladesh	Major Syed Ziaul Haque	Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
2011–12 Papua New Guinean constitutional crisis	26 January	Attempt	Papua New Guinea	Former Prime Minister Sir Michael Thomas Somare	Prime Minister Peter O'Neill
2012 Malian coup d'état	22 March	Coup	Mali	Malian soldiers, Captain Amadou Sanogo	President Amadou Toumani Touré
2012 Malawi coup d'état attempt	5 April	Attempt	Malawi	Peter Mutharika	President Joyce Banda
2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état	12 April	Coup	Guinea-Bissau	Army Vice Chief of Staff General Mamadu Ture Kuruma	Acting President Raimundo Pereira and ex-Prime Minister and presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior
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
2012 Ivorian coup d'état attempt	June 13	Attempt	Ivory Coast	Laurent Gbagbo's loyalists	President Alassane Ouattara
2012 Sudanese coup d'état attempt	November 22	Attempt	Sudan	Unknown	President Omar al-Bashir
2013 Benin coup d'état attempt	March 4	Attempt	Benin	Col. Pamphile Zomahoun	President Boni Yayi
2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt (first)	April 17	Attempt	Libya	Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists	Prime Minister Ali Zeidan
2013 Comoros coup d'état attempt	April 20	Attempt	Comoros	Unknown	President Ikililou Dhoinine
2013 Chadian coup d'état attempt	May 1	Attempt	Chad	Unknown	President Idriss Déby	At least four soldiers killed. Arrest of two generals and an MP.
2013 Egyptian coup d'état	July 3	Coup	Egypt	General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi	President Mohamed Morsi	Protests and subsequent military coup oust President Mohamed Morsi and his elected government.
2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt (second)	October 10	Attempt	Libya	Abdel-Moneim al-Hour	Prime Minister Ali Zeidan
2014 Thai coup d'état	May 22	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.
Abkhaz Revolution of 2014	May 27-June 1	Attempt	Abkhazia	Raul Khadjimba	President Aleksandr Ankvab	Eventually led to Ankvab resigning and Valeri Bganba becoming the acting president.
2014 Lesotho political crisis	August 30	Attempt	Lesotho	Lieutenant General Kennedy Tlai Kamoli and Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing	Prime Minister Tom Thabane	Failed coup lead to early elections.
2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état	21 September-6 February	Coup	Yemen	Houthis	Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi	Coup resulted in Yemeni Civil War (2015)
2014 Gambian coup d'état attempt	December 30	Attempt	Gambia	Former head of the presidential guards Lamin Sanneh	President Yahya Jammeh
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.
2015 Burkinabé coup d'état	September 17	Attempt	Burkina Faso	General Gilbert Diendéré	President Michel Kafando	Coups fails and the Regiment of Presidential Security is dissolved.

See also

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

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.

• Of the High Transitional Authority.
• Brahima Ouedraogo, "Burkina Faso coup leader says he will hand back power", Associated Press, 21 September 2015.