Burkina Faso, 2025 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 21 April 2025, the date on which the junta of Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso publicly announced it had dismantled a major coup plot, the same episode whose planned assault had been set for 16 April 2025. On the evening of Monday 21 April 2025, Security Minister Mahamadou Sana announced on state television RTB that authorities had undone a major plot aimed at promoting a coup and sowing total chaos, with masterminds allegedly based in Cote d'Ivoire. He said the plan, set for 16 April, involved an assault on the presidency by soldiers recruited by enemies of the nation, timed with large-scale terrorist attacks, and that intercepted messages between a Burkinabe officer and terrorist leaders had exposed it.
Ouagadougou said it had asked Abidjan to extradite politicians and military personnel accused of plotting against Traore, requests Cote d'Ivoire denied. In the weeks around the announcement, authorities arrested several officers, including former military-justice battalion commander Frederic Ouedraogo and Captain Elysee Tassembedo, and large pro-junta demonstrations were held in Ouagadougou. The 21 April 2025 coding matches the public announcement.
Researched Details
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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
43904212025
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Traore's junta announced the foiled plot and made arrests.
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
Africa News
BBC
Brasil de Fato
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