On July 22, 1994...
 
1994: US-Trained Military Officer Seizes Power in Gambia
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US-trained soldier Yahya Jammeh seizes power in a coup against Gambia's President Dawda Jawara, the same year he was trained: "Jammeh, then a captain, attended a military police training course at Fort McClellan, Alabama, in 1994."

Source: Keating (2012), "Foreign Policy: Trained in The U.S.A.". NPR
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