Niger, 1975 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 2 August 1975, corresponding to the arrest of Major Sani Souna Sido, vice-president of the ruling Supreme Military Council, on charges of plotting against Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountche in Niger. Kountche had seized power in the largely bloodless April 1974 coup that overthrew the fourteen-year rule of Niger's first president, Hamani Diori, and established the CMS to distribute drought relief fairly and restore order. Sido, popular among army troops, had been appointed vice-president of the CMS and minister of interior in Kountche's cabinet, but friction and competition between the two men grew, and by the end of 1974 Sido had been stripped of his other duties and demoted.
On 2 August 1975 he was accused of planning a military rebellion against Kountche and arrested. He died in Agadez in June 1977. The arrest prompted Kountche to appoint a majority of civilians to his cabinet.
Researched Details
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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
43608021975
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Kountche survived and consolidated power, ruling Niger until his death in 1987; Sido was arrested and died in 1977.
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
Luttwak
Wikipedia
New York Times
South China Morning Post
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