Global Information Lookup Global Information

1981 Gambian coup attempt information


1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt
Part of the Cold War
Date30 July – 4 August 1981
Location
The Gambia
Result

Coup d'état attempt fails

  • Dissolution of the Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
  • Emergence of the Senegambia Confederation
Belligerents
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt The Gambia
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Senegal
  • Supported by:
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt United Kingdom
Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
Commanders and leaders
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Dawda Jawara
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Assan Musa Camara
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt A. S. M'Boob
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Abdou Diouf
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Ian Crooke
  • Kukoi Sanyang
  • Ousman Bojang
  • Gibril George 
Units involved
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Loyalist elements of the Gambia Field Force
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Senegalese Army
  • Supported by:
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Special Air Service
  • Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
  • 1981 Gambian coup attempt Elements of the Gambia Field Force
Casualties and losses
20 100

The 1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt began on 30 July 1981 and was quashed in early August following a Senegalese military intervention. The insurrection was carried out by members of the Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party and disaffected staff of the Gambia Field Force. At the time, President Dawda Jawara was in the United Kingdom attending the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. The failure of the coup precipitated the creation of the Senegambia Confederation in 1982.

and 21 Related for: 1981 Gambian coup attempt information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8565 seconds.)

1981 Gambian coup attempt

Last Update:

The 1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt began on 30 July 1981 and was quashed in early August following a Senegalese military intervention. The insurrection...

Word Count : 752

2022 Gambian coup attempt

Last Update:

2022 Gambian coup attempt was a military coup d'état attempt which took place in The Gambia on 20 December 2022. Reportedly, some soldiers attempted to...

Word Count : 332

2014 Gambian coup attempt

Last Update:

The 2014 Gambian coup d'état attempt broke out during the night of 30 December 2014, when gunfire erupted in the Gambian capital of Banjul. At the time...

Word Count : 1116

1981 Seychelles coup attempt

Last Update:

1981 Seychelles coup d'état attempt, sometimes referred to as the Seychelles affair or Operation Angela, was a failed South African–orchestrated coup...

Word Count : 4257

Coup Belt

Last Update:

and Gabon in 2023. The region also saw attempted coups in Niger and Sudan in 2021, Guinea–Bissau and The Gambia in 2022, and Sudan, Sierra Leone and Burkina...

Word Count : 1135

List of coups and coup attempts

Last Update:

killing anyone. 1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt: Members of the Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party and disaffected staff of the Gambia Field Force led...

Word Count : 22924

List of coups and coup attempts by country

Last Update:

This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow the government...

Word Count : 21147

Gambia Armed Forces

Last Update:

which was two-thirds Senegalese and one-third Gambian, able to deploy anywhere in the Confederation. Gambian soldiers that formed part of the Confederal...

Word Count : 2658

2023 Burkina Faso coup attempt

Last Update:

Armed Forces attempted to overthrow the ruling military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré, which came to power a year earlier. In a previous coup in January 2022...

Word Count : 1022

2023 Sierra Leone coup attempt

Last Update:

organizations as attempts to disrupt constitutional order in the country, and by information minister Chernor Bah as an "attempted coup". The attacks came...

Word Count : 2084

Dawda Jawara

Last Update:

August 2019) was a Gambian politician who served as Prime Minister from 1962 to 1970, and then as the first President of The Gambia from 1970 to 1994,...

Word Count : 5179

The Gambia

Last Update:

supposed coup attempt by the Gambian army was foiled, with four soldiers arrested. The Gambia Armed Forces have denied that any attempt at a coup was made...

Word Count : 9826

History of the Gambia

Last Update:

the APRC, dominated Gambian politics. the Gambia left the Commonwealth of Nations in 2013 and suffered an unsuccessful coup attempt in 2014. In the 2016...

Word Count : 6928

2004 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt

Last Update:

The 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt, also known as the Wonga Coup, failed to replace President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo with exiled opposition...

Word Count : 3518

1981 Mauritanian coup attempt

Last Update:

The 1981 Mauritanian coup attempt was a violent coup attempt in Mauritania which took place on 16 March 1981. The coup attempt, staged by elements of the...

Word Count : 177

1982 Kenyan coup attempt

Last Update:

The 1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt was a failed attempt to overthrow President Daniel arap Moi's government. At 3 A.M. on Sunday, 1 August 1982, a group...

Word Count : 1723

1976 Nigerian coup attempt

Last Update:

The 1976 Nigerian coup d'état attempt was a military coup attempt which took place in Nigeria on 13 February 1976 when a faction of Armed Forces officers...

Word Count : 261

2021 Nigerien coup attempt

Last Update:

The 2021 Nigerien coup d'etat attempt occurred on 31 March at around 3 am WAT (2 am UTC) after gunfire erupted in the streets of Niamey, the capital of...

Word Count : 836

1990 Nigerian coup attempt

Last Update:

The 1990 Nigerian coup d'état attempt was a military coup attempt which took place in Nigeria on 22 April 1990 when a faction of Armed Forces officers...

Word Count : 551

1978 Somali coup attempt

Last Update:

The 1978 Somali coup d'état attempt was a violent military coup attempt that took place in Somalia (then Somali Democratic Republic) on 9 April 1978,...

Word Count : 591

2012 Sudanese coup attempt

Last Update:

Sudanese coup attempt was a coup d'état attempt on 22 November 2012 in Sudan against president Omar al-Bashir, who took power in the 1989 Sudanese coup d'état...

Word Count : 92

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net