Mali, 2025 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 7 August 2025, within the window of the August 2025 foiled coup plot against the junta of General Assimi Goita in Mali. On 14 August 2025 Security Minister General Daoud Aly Mohammedine announced on national television the arrest of a group of military personnel and civilians, including two Malian army generals and a suspected French secret agent, accused of attempting to destabilize the institutions of the republic. The minister said the conspiracy had begun on 1 August.
Among those arrested were General Abass Dembele, former governor of the Mopti region, who had been dismissed in May after demanding an investigation into alleged army killings of civilians, and General Nema Sagara, a senior female officer; up to 55 soldiers were reported detained. The detained French national was named as Yann Vezilier, whom Mali accused of acting for French intelligence to mobilize political, civil-society, and military actors; France denied the accusation. The plot unfolded as Goita's junta, which seized power in 2020 and 2021 and had turned from France toward Russia, tightened its grip, having dissolved political parties in May and granted Goita a renewable five-year term in June.
The 7 August 2025 coding falls within the plot's early-August timeline.
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
43208072025
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Goita's junta said it foiled the plot and arrested generals and a French national.
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
BBC
France 24
Africa News.
The Guardian
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