21.   Vatsa and many other military officers implicated in the coup bid were executed while others were sentenced to various imprisonment terms.

22.   It was the first reaction by the former emir to the coup bid, blamed by Doha on Sheikh Khalifa and unspecified neighbouring Gulf states.

23.   Ivorian officials also implicated Burkina Faso and Niger in the coup bid.

24.   Makhir and Rovshan Javadov played a key role in a previous coup bid last October, together with prime minister Surat Guseinov who was subsequently fired.

25.   Libya also helped the CAR government put down a coup bid in May.

26.   Obasanjo, who was accused of participating in a coup bid, was convicted on evidence obtained by torture and is believed held in bad prison conditions.

27.   Patasse has sacked several of his top aides, including government ministers, since the May coup bid.

28.   President Mohamed Said Djohar has returned to the Comoro Islands from four months in exile following a foiled coup bid in the Indian Ocean archipelago.

29.   President Mohamed Said Djohar returned to the Comoro Islands on Friday from four months in exile following a foiled coup bid in the Indian Ocean archipelago.

30.   Richardson, wounded and captured in the clashes, has admitted to his role in organizing the coup bid and accused Francois of taking part in the armed assault.