1981 Central African Republic coup d'état

Deposition of David Dacko by André Kolingba 1981 Central African Republic coup d'état 1 September 1981 Central African Republic Coup attempt succeeds. David Dacko is exiled. André Kolingba comes to power. 25px Central African Government25px Armed Forces loyalists 25px Armed Forces rebels Supported by:25px France David Dacko André Kolingba On 1 September 1981, General André Kolingba deposed President David Dacko of the Central African Republic in a bloodless coup while Dacko was away from the country traveling to an official state visit in Libya. Doeden Matt Central African Republic in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series) Twenty First Century Books (February 2009) 2009 1575059525 30 https://archive.org/details/centralafricanre0000doed/page/30 The day after the coup a "Military Committee for National Recovery" (fr Comite Militaire pour le Redressement National, CMRN) was established and was led by Kolingba. The CMRN then suspended the constitution and limited political party activity. Central African Republic specialists Richard Bradshaw and Carlos Fandos-Rius state that, in the 1981 coup, Kolingba "seized power with French support".Bradshaw Richard Fandos-Rius Juan 2016 Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic Lanham Rowman & Littlefield 83 9780810879911 Likewise, historian Brian Titley notes that the 800 French soldiers in the country had orders not to interfere.Titley Brian 1997 Dark Age. The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 161–162 0773516026 In 1991, DGSE head Pierre Marion admitted that the French military advisor Jean-Claude Mantion fr had played a role in the coup;Andriamirado Sennen Barrada Hamid Sada Hugo 1991 L’Ancien chef des services secrets se met à table Jeune Afrique 12 40–55 Mantion had been stationed in the Central African Republic to serve as head of the Presidential Guard shortly before the coup took place, and retained this powerful position throughout the Kolingba regime.Titley, Dark Age, 181.Borrel Thomas Thomas Yanis 2023 Borrel Thomas Boukari-Yabara Amzat Collombat Benoît Deltombe Thomas Une histoire de la Françafrique: L'empire qui ne veut pas mourir Seuil 476 L'Afrique francophone dans la nasse militaire française 9782757897751 Kolingba's military regime promised to hold election and get rid of corruption but over the next four years corruption increased and the CMRN repeatedly pushed back planned election until 1987. In 1982 the regime survived a coup attempt. References Category:1980s coups d'état Category:Coups d'état in the Central African Republic Category:1981 in the Central African Republic Category:September 1981 in Africa Category:1981 conflicts