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03 January 1966: the Day the Voltaicas Learned to Do a Coup D'état with the Unions

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60 years ago, day to day, the totally unionized Voltaic people stood up against the regime Maurice Yaméogo and stopped it on Monday, January 03, 1966 in Ouagadougou and in several cities of the Republic of Upper Volta of the time. In the evening, the first Voltaic President and intimate friend of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, falls. It was the balloon testing the coup d'état for the Voltaicas.
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60 years ago, day to day, the totally unionized Voltaic people stood up against the regime Maurice Yaméogo and stopped it on Monday, January 03, 1966 in Ouagadougou and in several cities of the Republic of Upper Volta of the time. In the evening, the first Voltaic President and intimate friend of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, falls. It was the balloon testing the coup d'état for the Voltaicas.

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linfodrome.com broke the news in on Saturday, January 3, 2026.
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