Mali, 1996 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 27 October 1996, during the continued political tension of President Alpha Oumar Konare's first term in Mali, in the period after the resolution of the northern Tuareg conflict and before the 1997 elections. Konare, elected in 1992 as Mali's first multiparty president, had weathered a December 1993 coup attempt, the January 1994 CFA franc devaluation and ensuing protests, and recurring student unrest through the mid-1990s. His government brokered the 1994-1995 National Pact with Tuareg rebels, integrating former fighters into the military, and the reconciliation was symbolically sealed at the Flame of Peace ceremony in Timbuktu on 27 March 1996, where thousands of weapons were burned and the armed movements formally dissolved.
Even so, the young democracy remained fragile amid economic hardship, army discontent, and political friction that would sharpen into the disputed 1997 elections. The 27 October 1996 coding sits in this post-Flame-of-Peace, pre-1997-election climate of instability and alleged conspiracy under Konare.
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
43210271996
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Konare governed through the instability and was re-elected in 1997, serving 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
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Ox Research Daily Brief Service
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