Benin, 2024 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 24 September 2024, corresponding to the September 2024 foiled coup plot against President Patrice Talon of Benin. On 25 September 2024 the special prosecutor Elonm Mario Metonou announced that Benin had foiled a coup planned for 27 September 2024, arresting Republican Guard commander Djimon Dieudonne Tevoedjre (who was also head of Talon's security), former Sports Minister Oswald Homeky, and businessman Olivier Boko, a longtime friend of Talon. According to the prosecutor, the plotters bribed the guard commander not to resist the coup: a bank account was opened in his name in Cote d'Ivoire on 6 August, and Homeky was caught on the night of 23 to 24 September handing over six bags containing 1.
5 billion CFA francs (about 2.5 million US dollars) in cash, transported in a vehicle with fake plates. Boko, who had recently signaled ambitions to run in the 2026 presidential election when Talon's second term ends, was arrested separately.
His supporters' Objectif 2026 movement condemned the arrests as a political attack. The 24 September 2024 coding matches the night of the cash handover and arrests, with the coup itself set for 27 September.
Researched Details
Researched
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Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
43409242024
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Talon's government foiled the plot and arrested the plotters.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Associated Press (AP)
BBC
Reuters
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