Cote d'Ivoire, 2012 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 12 June 2012, corresponding to the June 2012 alleged coup plot against President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d'Ivoire. On 13 June 2012 Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko announced on national television that state security had foiled a plot by exiled military officers loyal to former president Laurent Gbagbo, who had been arrested in April 2011 and was awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court. Bakayoko said a group of officers in exile in Accra, Ghana, had been preparing a military operation to destabilize the country and install a transitional military council, and he played a seized video in which uniformed men led by a colonel proclaimed the dissolution of state institutions, footage intended for broadcast after a takeover.
Documents outlining the plan were seized, and former defence minister Moise Lida Kouassi, a Gbagbo loyalist, was arrested in Togo, extradited, and acknowledged awareness of the plot. The episode was linked to broader pro-Gbagbo and Liberian mercenary violence in western Cote d'Ivoire, including the killing of seven United Nations peacekeepers days earlier. Gbagbo's party dismissed the plot as fabricated.
The 12 June 2012 coding sits at this mid-June 2012 plot.
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
43706122012
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Ouattara's government said it foiled the pro-Gbagbo plot and arrested those involved.
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
Wall Street Journal
The Economist
New York Beacon
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