408 Chapter 4
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Five months after MID#4371, France threatened Cote d’Ivoire that any
provocations would be returned with force. France also deployed additional tanks to
its peacekeeping units in the country.
220 France/481 Gabon
MID#92
Dispute Number: 92
Date(s): February 18, 1964 to February 29, 1964
Participants: 220 France/481 Gabon
Outcome (and Settlement): Victory for side A (Imposed)
Fatalities: 26–100 deaths
Narrative: The French intervened following a bloodless Gabonese coup in February
- On February 17, revolutionaries from the Gabonese military forced President
Leon M’ba to resign, after which he was moved to a military camp for detainment. A
provisional government was formed by the military officers the next day, the same day
that the Gabonese vice president—who was absent from the country for the coup—
requested French intervention on Article III of the defense pact signed between the
two countries on August 17, 1960. French troops arrived from other military stations
in the area to coordinate with French troops already in Gabon. Clashes occurred on
February 19; M’ba reentered the capital the next day. The rebels provided no effective
resistance to the French troops.
220 France/520 Somalia
MID#361
Dispute Number: 361
Date(s): February 4, 1976
Participants: 520 Somalia/220 France
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: 1–25 deaths
Narrative: Gunmen hijacked a school bus carrying French children in Djibouti, a
French colony at the time. When French forces moved to take out the hostage-takers,
it caused an exchange of fire with Somali border troops. One Somali soldier was
killed.
Coding changes: Start Date changed from February 3, 1976. End Date changed from
February 3, 1976.