The 1985 Ugandan coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Ugandan military, led by Lieutenant General Tito Okello and Brigadier Bazilio Olara-Okello, against the government of President Milton Obote on July 27, 1985. The coup was greeted by cheers and looting in the capital of the former British colony. There were earlier reports of fighting but they could not be confirmed. Obote's whereabouts could not be confirmed but there were reports he had entered Kenya, where his wife had be

The 1985 Liberian coup d'état attempt was staged by General Thomas Quiwonkpa, who had been a leader of the 1980 coup along with President Samuel Doe and later founder of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). On 12 November 1985, one month after elections were held, Quiwonkpa, supported by about two dozen heavily armed men, covertly entered Liberia through Sierra Leone, and launched a coup against Doe. The coup resulted in a disastrous failure and Quiwonkpa was captured and on November