1979 Central African coup d'état | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
House of Bokassa Armed Forces loyalists |
Armed Forces rebels France | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Bokassa I |
David Dacko Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
Operation Caban was a military operation that happened in September 1979, to put former president, David Dacko back into power, and restore the Central African Empire to the Central African Republic by removing Emperor Bokassa I.[1][2][3]