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The 1974 Coup d'État in Niger: Towards an Explanation

1975; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0022278x00052332

1469-7777

Richard Higgott, Finn Fuglestad,

African history and culture studies

In the early hours of Easter Sunday, 14 April 1974, the army, led by Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountché, overthrew the Government which had held power in Niger since independence. President Hamani Diori's régime became the twenty-fifth in Africa to fall to a coup d'état in eleven years, and Niger the eighth republic of former French Africa to come under the control of the military.