List of coups in Sierra Leone

This list includes successful and attempted coups and coups in Sierra Leone since independence on April 27, 1961.

1961 to 1975

Beginning	Responsible	background
March 21, 1967	David Lansana ( Albert Margai )	The high-ranking military David Lansana took power under the instigation of Albert Margais. Margai was previously Prime Minister and did not want to accept his electoral defeat by Siaka Stevens .
March 24, 1967	Ambrose Patrick Genda	Many soldiers disagreed with Lansana's seizure of power and deposed him. Ambrose Patrick Genda took power as chairman of the National Reform Council .
March 27, 1967	Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith	After disagreements within the National Reform Council, Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith came to power.
Apr 19, 1968	John Amadu Bangura , Patrick Conteh	Bangura and Conteh, who were both supporters of Siaka Stevens, took power in a coup and handed it over to the duly elected prime minister a week later.

Beginning	Responsible	background
Apr 29, 1992	allegedly Yahya Kanu	Allegedly under Yahya Kanu, the National Provisional Ruling Council took power in the state through a violent coup . His actual role is unclear as he was considered a friend of the democratically elected President Joseph Saidu Momoh .
Apr 29, 1992	Valentine Strasser	Strasser coup against Kanu and became the youngest head of state on earth. He stood before the National Provisional Ruling Council, then the Supreme Council of State .
Dec 1992	at least 29 people	failed; Prime suspects, including Yahya Kanu, were executed on December 29, 1992; but only afterwards sentenced to death for high treason.
Jan. 17, 1996	Julius Maada Bio	Bio, as Strasser's deputy, overthrew him and a little later accepted the results of the first democratic elections in decades.
May 26, 1997	Johnny Paul Koroma	Koroma from the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council overthrew the elected President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and had to relinquish power to him on March 10 of the following year during the civil war. Possibly was Joseph Saidu Momoh involved herein.