2025 Beninese coup attempt

2025 Beninese coup attempt
	; Rogue soldiers announce on national television that they have overthrown the government.
Date	7 December 2025
Location	SRTB, Presidential Palace, and Camp Togbin, Cotonou, Benin6°21′N 2°24′E / 6.35°N 2.40°E
Status	Coup failure Attacks on the Presidential Palace repulsed; ECOWAS stability forces deployment; Ongoing search for coup plotters; Pascal Tigri fled to Togo;
Belligerents
Military Committee for Refoundation;	Benin; Nigeria; France; ECOWAS Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast; Ghana; ;
Commanders and leaders
Pascal Tigri; Ousmane Samary; Sambieni Castro	Patrice Talon; Dieudonné Djimon Tévoédjrè; Bola Tinubu
Units involved
Benin Armed Forces (factions)	Benin Armed Forces; Benin Army; ; Nigerian Armed Forces Nigerian Army; Nigerian Air Force; ; ECOWAS Standby Force; Special Operations Command;
Casualties and losses
Several killed, 13 arrested	1 killed, 1 injured; 2 abducted, later released
	3 civilians abducted, 2 survived, 1 killed

On 7 December 2025, several soldiers of the Benin Armed Forces (FAB) led by Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri announced on national television the overthrow of Patrice Talon, the president of Benin, following an attack on Talon's residence in Cotonou and the residences of other top-ranking military officials. Talon's government requested military assistance from Nigeria, and hours later, Beninese interior minister Alassane Seidou said that the coup attempt had been thwarted. The ECOWAS Standby Force was then deployed to maintain security. Several people on both sides, including one civilian, were killed during the attempt.