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Senior soldiers in Gabon on Wednesday morning announced they had taken over the government.

For the first time in over five decades, Gabonese woke up to a new ruler whose surname isnt Bongo. General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema was declared, Wednesday (Aug. 30), head of the military junta that seized power from Ali Bongo, shortly after his controversial re-election.

Oil and gas companies, Tullow Oil and BW Energy which have active operations in Gabon, have said there have been no disruptions

The body said it ‘strongly condemns the military takeover’ that resulted in the ouster of President Ali Bongo Ondimba.

MURIC to Nigerian Military: Don’t emulate Gabon coup plotters. The Muslim Rights Concern has told the Armed Forces of Nigeria

By Olasupo Abideen Just as stakeholders are trying to navigate how to find resolution to the ongoing political saga in Niger Republic, the most recent report has it that army officers appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power. They said they were annulling the results of Saturday's election, in which

As coups continue to gain widespread ground on the continent, some leaders have begun to take steps to tighten their grip on power.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell insisted Thursday the military coup in Gabon could not be compared to the crisis in Niger, arguing officers intervened after ousted president Ali Bongo won an unfair election. “Naturally, military coups are not the solution, but we must not forget that in Gabon there had been elections full of…

Is it a Russian conspiracy or anti-Paris bias? Or a sign that democracy has never really taken root in post-colonial realities?

The apparent military coup in Gabon Wednesday is raising concern about the future of countries in the Central African economic bloc CEMAC, which has some of the world's longest serving leaders. Several dozen youths, a majority of them students from the University of Yaounde, watch attentively as soldiers declare on Gabonese TV that the military,…