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Congo Kinshasa Coup Attempt — The Making of New Zaire
Sunday, 19 May 2024
By TB Obwoge
There was a coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier today.
A coup d’état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/; French: [ku deta]; lit. ‘stroke of state’), or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.
There is a movement called the New Zaire movement, it is lead basicly by a man named Christian Malanga. Who happened to livestream several videos on his Facebook platform after several armed men took over the presidential palace in Congo Kinshasa.
A coup d’état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/; French: [ku deta]; lit. ‘stroke of state’), or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.
“Counter-coup” and “Coup” redirect here. For the injury type, see Coup contrecoup injury. For other uses, see Coup (disambiguation) and Coup d’état (disambiguation).
General Napoleon Bonaparte during the Coup of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud, detail of painting by François Bouchot, 1840
A coup d’état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ⓘ; French: [ku deta]; lit. ‘stroke of state’),[1] or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.[2][3] A self-coup is when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means.[3]
By one estimate, there were 457 coup attempts from 1950 to 2010, half of which were successful.[2] Most coup attempts occurred in the mid-1960s, but there were also large numbers of coup attempts in the mid-1970s and the early 1990s.[2] Coups occurring in the post-Cold War period have been more likely to result in democratic systems than Cold War coups,[4][5][6] though coups still mostly perpetuate authoritarianism.
