What the records say
- When
- 25 Nov 1980
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 12.37° N, 1.53° W
- Description
- Military coup in Burkina Faso led by Colonel Saye Zerbo
1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état
1980 military coup in present-day Burkina Faso
The 1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état took place on 25 November 1980 in the Republic of Upper Volta. Following a long period of drought, famine, popular unrest and labour strikes, Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Sangoulé Lamizana, another military leader. Zerbo himself would be overthrown only two years later.
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- Cline Center Coup d’État Project v2.2.2Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois · names it “Coup in Burkina Faso”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0