Burkina Faso, 2023 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 27 September 2023, corresponding to the 2023 Burkina Faso coup attempt against the military junta of Captain Ibrahim Traore. On the night of 27 September 2023 the junta announced that a coup attempt had been foiled on 26 September by the country's intelligence and security services, saying that officers and other alleged participants had been arrested and others were being sought, and that the plotters had intended to attack the institutions of the republic and plunge the country into chaos. The junta stated that four officers were arrested and two were on the run, later naming the alleged perpetrators as the special forces commander Abdoul Aziz Aouoba, Lieutenant Colonel Boubacar Keita, Lieutenant Colonel Cheikh Hamza Ouattara, and Christophe Maiga, with former intelligence director Sekou Ouedraogo in hiding.
The plot came amid army discontent and rumours of mutiny nearly a year after Traore's own September 2022 coup, and pro-Traore crowds took to the streets. The 27 September 2023 coding matches the junta's announcement.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
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
43909272023
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Traore's junta said it foiled the plot and arrested several officers.
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
CNN
Times of Oman
Financial Times
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