1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état

Date

3 August 1979

Location

Equatorial Guinea

Result

Coup attempt succeeds.

Francisco Macías Nguema is imprisoned and executed on September 29, 1979.

Belligerents

Government of Equatorial Guinea

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

Commanders and leaders

Francisco Macías Nguema

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

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The 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état happened on August 3, 1979, when President Francisco Macías Nguema's nephew, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, overthrew him in a bloody coup. He sentenced his uncle to death for the crime of genocide against the Bubi people and other crimes committed. Macías Nguema was executed by firing squad on September 29, 1979. Teodoro remains President today.^[1]

References

↑ "Equatorial Guinea: The Terror and the Coup". February 1980. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

African coups d'état, self-coups and attempted coups since 1960

1960s	Republic of the Congo (1960) Ethiopia (1960) French Algeria (1961) Senegal (1962) Togo (1963) Gabon (1964) Zanzibar (1964) Algeria (1965) Burundi (1965) Democratic Republic of the Congo (1965) Central African Republic (1965–1966) Burundi (July 1966) Burundi (November 1966) Ghana (1966) Upper Volta (1966) Nigeria (January 1966) Nigeria (July 1966) Republic of the Congo (1966) Ghana (1967) Togo (1967) Mali (1968) Republic of the Congo (1968) Sudan (1969) Libya (1969) Somalia (1969)

1970s	Lesotho (1970) Uganda (1971) Morocco (1971) Sudan (1971) Ghana (1972) Morocco (1972) Republic of the Congo (1972) Rwanda (1973) Niger (1974) Comoros (1975) Nigeria (1975) Chad (1975) Burundi (1976) Nigeria (1976) Republic of the Congo (1977) Seychelles (1977) Sudan (1977) Central African Republic (1979) Ghana (1979) Equatorial Guinea (1979)

1980s	Liberia (1980) Guinea-Bissau (1980) Upper Volta (1980) Central African Republic (1981) Gambia (1981) Ghana (1981) Seychelles (1981) Central African Republic (1982) Kenya (1982) Upper Volta (1982) Upper Volta (1983) Upper Volta (1983) Nigeria (1983) Mauritania (1984) Cameroon (1984) Guinea (1984) Uganda (1985) Nigeria (1985) Sudan (1985) Lesotho (1986) Burkina Faso (1987) Burundi (1987) Republic of the Congo (1987) Tunisia (1987) Sudan (1989) Burkina Faso (1989) Ethiopia (1989)

1990s	Nigeria (1990) Zambia (1990) Mali (1991) Lesotho (1991) Sierra Leone (1992) Algeria (1992) Burundi (1993) Nigeria (1993) The Gambia (1994) Lesotho (1994) Burundi (1996) Niger (1996) Zambia (1997) Lesotho (1998) Republic of the Congo (1998) Niger (1999) Côte d'Ivoire (1999)

2000s	Burundi (2001) Central African Republic (2001) Central African Republic (2003) São Tomé and Príncipe (2003) Burkina Faso (2003) Chad (2004) Equatorial Guinea (2004) Mauritania (2005) Chad (2006) Madagascar (2006) Guinea (2008) Mauritania (2008) Madagascar (2009)

2010s	Niger (2010) Guinea-Bissau (2010) Democratic Republic of the Congo (2011) Niger (2011) Guinea-Bissau (2011) Mali (2012) Guinea-Bissau (2012) Egypt (2013) Libya (2013) Central African Republic (2012–13) South Sudan (2013) Libya (2014) Lesotho (2014) The Gambia (2014) Burundi (2015) Burkina Faso (2015)

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