What the records say
- When
- 6 Aug 2008
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 18.09° N, 15.98° W
- Description
- military overthrow of Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
2008 Mauritanian coup d'état
Military overthrow of President Abdallahi
The 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état was a military coup that took place in Mauritania on August 6, 2008, when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by the Armed Forces of Mauritania, led by a group of high-ranking generals he had dismissed from office earlier that day.
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- Wikidata: treaties and coupsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- 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 “President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d'état”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Мавритании совершён военный переворот”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page