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Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News August 31

Former Nigeria vice president Atiku Abubakar said the alarming surge in military takeovers in Central and West Africa is worrisome. Yesterday, military officers in Gabon said they had taken power and put the president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, under house arrest, as the country became the latest in Africa to suffer an attempted coup, only weeks […]

President Bongo, 64, was placed under house arrest on Wednesday.

Kenyan newspapers, August 31: A couple from Kirinyaga lost their infant, which had been birthed at the Embu Level 5 Hospital. They pointed to power blackout.

Gabon's military coup sparked the steepest daily drop in its dollar bonds on Wednesday since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and came just weeks after the country carried out continental Africa's first debt-for-nature swap.

There has been alleged panic among African leaders following the military coup that happened in Gabon on Wednesday, making Rwandan and Cameroonian leaders - Paul Kagame and Paul Biya take drastic steps in their respective military formations. Ali Bongo, the president of Gabon, was deposed in a coup by top military officers, and the coupists…

By Mauro Orru Shares of France's Eramet jumped in Thursday morning trading after the group resumed rail freight and mining activities in Gabon following a...

African Energy Chamber Urges Gabon to Protect Oil & Gas Assets Amid Political Coup

Coups Are Normally Not Led By Generals - Barker Vormayor Shares Observation After Gabon Coup

Army officers who seized power in a coup in Gabon on Wednesday have named General Brice Oligui Nguema as the West African state's transitional leader.