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The recent coups in Gabon and Niger have raised concerns among other African presidents who fear a threat to their power and have appointed new generals.

Coups have also taken place in recent years in Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Niger, Mali and now Gabon in late August. Read more here.

The world this week

Gabon

Ndong Sima, 68, had been Bongos Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014, but had distanced himself from power, which he regularly accused of bad governance, to the point of running against the head of state in the 2016 and 2023 presidential elections

Gabon's ruling juntay, which seized power in a coup last week, has appointed former opposition leader Raymond Ndong...

Gabon's interim president, General Bryce Ouligi Anguema, on Tuesday received Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadera. Touadéra is the first head of state to visit Libreville after the coup that toppled President Ali Bongo a week ago. He was appointed by the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) to "facilitate the political process" in the country. The organization suspended Gabon's membership on Monday and ordered an "immediate relocation&...

The Supreme Head of the Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria, Prophet Solomon Alao, has advised President Bola Tinubu to lead ECOWAS in identifying and fighting the root causes of military coup in Africa instead of threatening war after the collapse of democracy in member-states.

Folahanmi Aina  Associate Fellow, Royal United Services InstituteGabon’s prime minister, Ali Bongo, has become the latest in a string of African leaders to be ousted by a military coup in rece

Another Nguema in power in Gabon