On 25 November 1965, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu led a military coup d'état taking control of the government. The constitution promulgated in 1967, by Mobutu provided in Article 46 that nationality was to be governed according to the Nationality Law. In that regard, on 26 March 1971, he decreed law 71-020 which provided that all Banyarwanda who had resided in the Congo prior to its independence regained their nationality. The name of the country was changed to Zaire on 27 October 1971. On 5 January 1972, under Law 72-002 the date of residence was modified to 1 January 1950, depriving any Banyarwanda who arrived after that date of their Zairian nationality. Under the 1972 statute, women automatically lost their Zairian nationality upon marriage to a foreigner unless within six months of the marriage they declared that they wanted to retain their nationality of origin. A foreign woman marrying a Zairian national or married to a man who naturalized could obtain nationality by renouncing her nationality of origin.