Guinea-Bissau, 2001 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 2 December 2001, corresponding to the alleged coup plot that President Kumba Yala's government claimed to have foiled in early December 2001 in Guinea-Bissau. Yala, of the Social Renewal Party and a member of the Balanta ethnic group, had been elected president in 2000 and governed erratically until his own overthrow in September 2003. His rule was marked by chronic instability: in November 2000 former junta leader and army chief General Ansumane Mane was killed in a clash with government forces after a dispute over military promotions, and Yala repeatedly clashed with parliament, sending back the draft constitution with demands for increased presidential powers.
In this climate the government announced in early December 2001 that it had foiled a coup plot, although the opposition questioned whether any real plot existed. Various members of opposition parties were subsequently detained and held without charge. The 2 December 2001 coding matches this early-December 2001 alleged plot and the arrests that followed.
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
40412022001
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Yala survived the alleged 2001 plot but was ousted in a September 2003 coup.
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
CSP
BBC Monitoring Africa - Political
Irish Times
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