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The suggestion from Nigerian President Bola Tinubu comes after Algeria suggested a six-month transition from military to civilian rule.

Yet another coup in Africa - just five weeks after Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum was taken hostage by the troops of his own presidential...

On Wednesday, a month after a military coup in Niger, the military ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba in Gabon, an oil-rich former French colony in central

In Francophone Africa, a wave of coups is causing concern, reminiscent of the Arab Spring. Stable regimes are falling to military officers.

Barely eight months ago, Gabon national news agency report say Gen Nguema publicly reaffirm im loyalty to Ali Bongo presidency, wey don stretch for 14 years.

Disturbed by the rising wave of coups on the continent, African countries have started reshuffling their military and taking measures to avert it. With Gabon coup leaders saying yesterday that General Brice Oligui Nguema would be sworn in as “transitional president” on Monday at the constitutional court, African leaders were working on a response to

The African Union has suspended Gabon's participation in the bloc's activities, condemning the military takeover of power in the former French colony.


Central Africa is the den of despotism. It has, for almost 60 years, been the barnyard of autocratic geriatrics and playgrounds for the mostly Frenchified African rulers. France, among the worst of the colonial and post-colonial oppressors and exploiters of Africans, has become the most disliked and repudiated European country in Africa! Britain held that |

Military leaders named the head of the Presidential Guard, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, as the country’s interim leader on Wednesday evening.

Failed developmental promises, ever shifting domestic elite alliances and popular demand for better living conditions contributed to the military removal of Gabon’s Ali Bongo Ondimba.