[4] The following clashes between government forces and the dissident soldiers caused at least six deaths, including two policemen.

[3] In the retaken radio stations, government ministers issued a broadcast reassuring the country that the coup attempt had been foiled.

[3] A three-day long curfew was imposed following the attempted coup and Felix Houphouet Boigny airport was also closed momentarily.

[3][5] In the end, government forces had arrested forty soldiers involved in the coup attempt and detained them.

[1] The government implicated the supporters of Alassane Ouattara, who was disqualified from participating in the 2000 Ivorian Presidential Election, of being behind the coup attempt,[4] suggesting potential motives could be grievance over his exclusion from the elections due to contested claims of foreign birth.