What the records say
- When
- 21 Sep 1979
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 4.37° N, 18.56° E
- Description
- 1979 military operation in French Central Africa
Operation Caban
1979 French military operation in the Central African Republic
Operation Caban, also known as the 1979 Central African coup d’état, was a bloodless military operation by the French intelligence service SDECE in September 1979 to depose Emperor Bokassa I, reinstate the exiled former president David Dacko, and rename the Central African Empire back to Central African Republic.
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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 Central African Republic”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0