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This article lists successful and failed coups d'état that have taken place in the Comoros since 1975:

• 3 August 1975: President Ahmed Abdallah was overthrown by Said Mohamed Jaffar and French mercenary Bob Denard.^[2]
• 13 May 1978: President Ali Soilih was overthrown by Ahmed Abdallah and Bob Denard,^[3] resulting in his killing thirteen days later;^[4] Denard became the commander of Abdallah's 500-strong Presidential Guard for the next eleven years (1978–1989).^[5]

• 26 November 1989: President Ahmed Abdallah was overthrown by Said Mohamed Djohar and Bob Denard, resulting in his assassination;^[6] under French pressure,^[7] Denard and other mercenaries left the country the next month.^[8]

• 28 September 1995 (Operation Kaskari): President Said Mohamed Djohar was overthrown by Bob Denard,^[9] who returned to the country with a force of 33 hand-picked mercenaries; it was the last coup staged with Denard's involvement.^[10][11] The coup resulted in the French military intervention (Operation Azalee) days later,^[12] and the removal of Denard from the country.^[13]
• 30 April 1999: President Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde was overthrown by Colonel Azali Assoumani of the Comorian Armed Forces.^[14][15][16]

• 20 April 2013: President Ikililou Dhoinine's government foiled a coup attempt.^[17]

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