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43212091993ConspiracyMilitary coup

Mali, 1993 — military coup conspiracy

Mali (MLI)West Africa, AfricaDecember 9, 1993

Event Summary

This entry is coded 9 December 1993, corresponding to the December 1993 coup attempt by Lieutenant-Colonel Oumar Diallo against the democratically elected government of President Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali. Konare, a historian and former minister, had won Mali's first multiparty elections in April 1992 at the head of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali, after the March 1991 popular uprising and military intervention that toppled dictator Moussa Traore. His young democracy faced serious strain in 1993 and 1994: recurring student protests by the AEEM pupils' and students' association, a severe economic crisis worsened by the January 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc, and the continuing Tuareg rebellion in the north.

The Diallo coup attempt sits in this period of instability and army restiveness. The 9 December 1993 coding matches this December 1993 attempt, one of the few direct military challenges to Konare, who nonetheless served two full terms and became the only Malian president to date to leave office at the end of his mandate.

Researched Details

Researched

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Target identified in Coup Atlas research: Konare survived the attempt and served two full terms to 2002
RESEARCHED NAME
Key figures
President Alpha Oumar Konare (target)
Lieutenant-Colonel Oumar Diallo (attempt leader)
the ADEMA government

Sources

A coup attempt by Lieutenant-Colonel Oumar Diallo occurred in December 1993, followed in January 1994 by the 50 percent devaluation of the CFA franc, which brought a major rise in living costs and led to protests.
SOURCE REVIEWED The New Humanitarian: A timeline of northern conflict, Mali open source ↗
Konare was elected as Mali's first democratically elected president in 1992, receiving about 69 percent of the vote in the second round, after the fall of Moussa Traore.
SOURCE REVIEWED Wikipedia: Alpha Oumar Konare open source ↗
There were several periods of student-led protests in the 1990s against high unemployment and the effects of structural adjustment programs, contributing at one point to the fall of a government through a no-confidence vote in parliament.
SOURCE REVIEWED Freedom of Information Program (ICNC): Mali's March Revolution open source ↗
Term-limited to two presidential terms, Konare left office in 2002 and is to date the only Malian president to leave office at the end of his term.
SOURCE REVIEWED Wikipedia: Alpha Oumar Konare open source ↗

Editorial Note

Coded 9 Dec 1993 matches the December 1993 Oumar Diallo coup attempt against Konare (dated to December in the located timeline). Verified as a discrete event, though the sources locate it to the month rather than the exact day. First Mali record in the run; a second Mali entry (Oct 1996) follows in this batch.

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
43212091993

How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.

Outcome and Target

Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Konare survived the attempt and served two full terms to 2002.

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

Cline Center Coup d’État Project Dataset, v2.2.2
Peyton, Buddy, Joseph Bajjalieh, Michael Martin, and Andrea Gerald. 2026. Cline Center Coup d’État Project Dataset. Cline Center for Advanced Social Research. V.2.2.2. February 17. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. doi: 10.13012/B2IDB-9651987_V10
⚑ This citation establishes the coded baseline record; use the claim-level sources above for the researched narrative.

Baseline Source-Document Entries

CSP

Named in the baseline source document; no article citation was recorded.

The Gazette

“Government in Mali foils coup attempt: [FINAL Edition],” December 10, 1993

The Guardian

“Mali foils army plot to restore jailed dictator,” December 10, 1993

This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →

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