Military Coups In Africa Trivia Quiz

Answer: Libya

King Idris was deposed in military coup led by Colonel Khaddhafi. This resulted in a new puritanic Islamic-socialist republic which sought Pan-Arab unity.
He is aka Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Answer: Ghana

Col. Acheampong, who was himself a coup maker in 1972, was deposed in a bloodless coup by Jerry Rawlings 1978. Rawlings was elected president 1992.

Answer: Sierra Leone

President Kabbah's civilian government was ousted in a bloody coup 1997 led by Major Koroma. His junta was driven out by a Nigerian-led peacekeeping froce 1998.

Answer: Gambia

Dawda Jawara was ousted in a military coup led by Yahya Jammeh 1994.

Answer: Guinea

A bloodles military coup brought Conte to power 1984 after the death of president Sekou Toure.

Answer: Somalia

President Ibrahim Egal was assassinated in military coup 1969 led by Maj.-Gen.Muhammad Siad Barre. In 1991 Somalia's capital Mogadishu was captured by rebels, among them General Aidid.

Answer: Togo

Lt. Eyadema became president in a bloodless coup 1967. He was elected president in 1979, 1993 (the first multiparty presidential election) and 1998.

Answer: Liberia

President Tolbert was assassinated in military coup led by Sgt. Samuel Doe 1980. Doe was himself killed as a bloody civil war broke out in 1990.

Answer: Congo (Kinshasa)

Mobutu Sese Seko was ousted by rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila 1997. Kabila was assassinated 2001 and was succeeded by his son, Joseph.

Answer: Uganda

Milton Obote was overthrown in army coup led by Idi Amin 1971. Amin was forced to leave the country by opponents and by Tanzanian troops 1979.

Answer: Central African Republic

David Dacko was ousted in a military coup led by Col.Bokassa 1965. He made himself emperor 1977, but was deposed by Dacko in a French-backed bloodless coup 1979.

Answer: Chad

President Habre was ousted after the army was defeated by Libyan-backed rebel troops led by Habre's former ally Idriss Deby.

Answer: Nigeria

General Gowon was ousted in military coup led by Obasanjo 1975.

Answer: Sudan

Sadiq al-Mahdi was overthrown in a coup led by Islamic fundamentalist Gen.Omar el-Bashir 1989.

Answer: Mali

Modibo Keita was replaced in army coup by Lt.Moussa Traore 1968. Traore was ousted in a coup 1991 and sentenced to death 1993-94.

Answer: Comoros

The government was overthrown 1999 by an army coup led by Col.Azali Assoumani. One of the reasons for he coup was that the former government had granted greater autonomy to the islands of Anjouan and Moheli.

Answer: Seychelles

Seychelles bacame independent 1976 with Centre-Right James Mancham as president. The more radical Rene ousted Mancham in a bloodless coup 1977 and took over presidency.

Answer: Rwanda

Gregoire Kayibanda was ousted in military coup 1973 led by Maj-.Gen. Habyarimana. President Habyarimana was killed in an air crash 1994 along with Burundi's president Ntaryamira. 500,000 people killed in the ensuing civil war between Tutsis and Hutus.

Answer: Burundi

Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, who was himself a coup general in 1976, was deposed in a coup by Tutsi Maj.Buyoya 1987. He was beaten by the Hutu leader Melchior Ndadaye in elections in 1993, but again seized power 1996 amid the ethnic violence between Hutus and Tutsis.

Answer: Niger

President Ibrahim Barre Mainassara, himself a coup leader in 1996, was assassinated in a coup led by Maj. Daouda Mallam Wanke in 1999.