South Sudan, 2024 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 29 February 2024 in South Sudan and falls within a documented climate of recurring coup rumours, purges, and mass arrests around President Salva Kiir Mayardit, though no discrete coup plot precisely on that date is confirmed in the sources located for this entry. South Sudan has been marked by coup allegations since independence: in December 2013 Kiir accused forces loyal to his rival Riek Machar of launching a coup, triggering a civil war, and in November 2023 Kiir dismissed the police chief amid social-media coup rumours, with about 27 people from the National Security Service and the army reportedly detained. The 29 February 2024 coding sits amid this ongoing instability, which later deepened into a multi-phase purge from October 2024 onward, when Kiir removed powerful figures including the intelligence chief and vice presidents, placed Machar under house arrest on subversion charges in 2025, and effectively unravelled the 2018 peace agreement.
The coding is best understood against this recurring coup-plot and purge climate rather than a single confirmed plot on the day.
Researched Details
Researched
Independent research, added record by record. Hover any label for what it means.
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
62602292024
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Kiir's government repeatedly framed rivals and unrest as coup threats in this era.
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
KSL News Radio
Reuters
Semafor
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 →