Chad, 2006 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 15 March 2006, corresponding to the 2006 Chadian coup attempt against President Idriss Deby, foiled on the night of 14 to 15 March 2006. The plot was led by the twin brothers Tom and Timane Erdimi, Deby's nephews and former chiefs of his civilian personal staff who had joined the exiled opposition in December 2005, together with renegade former General Seby Aguid. The plan was to shoot down Deby's plane as it returned from a Central African economic summit in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, to N'Djamena.
Forces loyal to Deby, having been tipped off, foiled the attempt; the rebel soldiers fled in seven vehicles, two of which were intercepted, and around one hundred military personnel were arrested. The episode came amid a broader rebel insurgency along the eastern border with Sudan's Darfur region, marked by waves of army desertions since October 2005, and just weeks before a disputed 3 May 2006 election that Deby contested after scrapping term limits. The 15 March 2006 coding matches the foiling of this plot.
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
48303152006
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Deby foiled the plot, arrested about 100 soldiers, and won the May 2006 election.
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
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Financial Times
The Independent
The Daily Mirror
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