What the records say
- When
- 3 Aug 2005
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 18.09° N, 15.98° W
- Description
- Military overthrow of Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
2005 Mauritanian coup d'état
Overthrow of Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
A military coup took place in Mauritania on 3 August 2005. President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was ousted by the Armed Forces of Mauritania and replaced by the Military Council for Justice and Democracy (CMJD), headed by Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, while Taya was in Saudi Arabia attending the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
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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 Mauritania”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Reports from Mauritania indicate that the Army has seized control of the government”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page