2008 Mauritanian coup d'état

2008 Mauritanian coup d'état
	Mauritanian soldiers on a Toyota Land Cruiser pickup truck in Nouakchott on August 7, following the coup.
Date	6 August 2008
Location	Nouakchott, Mauritania
Type	Military coup
Motive	Regime change
Target	Presidential Palace, Nouakchott
Organised by	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Participants	Faction within the Armed Forces
Outcome	Coup succeeds Overthrow of democratically elected government of President Abdallahi.; The establishment of military rule under the High Council of State headed by General Aziz.; Election of General Aziz as President in 2009.;

The 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état was a military coup that took place in Mauritania on August 6, 2008, when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by the Armed Forces of Mauritania, led by a group of high-ranking generals he had dismissed from office earlier that day.

Mauritanian soldiers on a Toyota Land Cruiser pickup truck in Nouakchott on August 7, following the coup.
Date	6 August 2008 (2008-08-06)
Location	Nouakchott, Mauritania
Type	Military coup
Motive	Regime change
Target	Presidential Palace, Nouakchott
Organised by	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Participants	Faction within the Armed Forces
Outcome	Coup succeeds Overthrow of democratically elected government of President Abdallahi. The establishment of military rule under the High Council of State headed by General Aziz. Election of General Aziz as President in 2009.