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Gabon reopened its borders on Saturday, an army spokesman said, three days after closing them during a military coup in which President Ali Bongo was ousted.

Crafty rulers have learnt to split up power centres in government and the military.

In the past three years, at least eight African countries have witnessed military coup d’états. This is coming when it was thought that Africa’s democracy had come of age when we were beginning to think that coups had gone for good, consigned to an era in the past when African governments were led by the

Democracy, it’s been said, is government of the people. If that’s true, what do we say to Zimbabweans, who fulfilled their civic duty by voting, and yet have seen their lives going backwards with every election, asks Mike Siluma.

Macron looks on as Frances Africa policy crumbles

The Bongo family that controlled Gabon for 56 years, until the coup a few days ago, loved music so much that they likely spent millions of the oil-rich country's dollars on courting international artists.

The factors that have contributed to instability in the region.

A contagion theory of coups in Africa misses the clear dimensions in which Gabon differs from other recent coups on the continent.

It’s doubtful Bongo Junior would have had immunity against a coup if Gabon had been in East Africa.