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Cameroon and Rwanda have rejigged military architecture in what was seen as a reaction to the military coup that overthrew President Ali Bongo from power

Paris is complicit in the lack of social and democratic progress that prompted the coup.

Amid the transition to military government in Gabon, Brice Nguema has been named the ringleader of the attempted coup in the Central African country.

On August 30, just hours after Gabon’s election commission announced that President Ali Bongo Ondimba had been elected to a third term, a group of Gabonese military officers from the elite presidential guard unit seized power and placed the president under arrest at his palace. Later that day, the officers declared General Brice Oligui Nguema as chairman of the transition. While the election itself had been marred by reports of irregularities, the officers’ coup marks the latest in a long li...

Gabon is the world’s second-largest supplier of manganese, a key ingredient in the steelmaking industry and EV batteries.

The former head of Gabon's most powerful security unit, the Gabonese Republican Guard, Brice Nguema has been named transitional president by the coup leaders. According to a statement read on National television on Wednesday, Nguema was appointed chairman of the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions. "General Brice Oligui Nguema was unanimously appointed chairman of the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions, President of the Transition,&quo...

Since 1990 two-thirds of coups in Africa have been in ex-French colonies | Middle East & Africa

Josep Borreel spoke in Spain Thursday (Aug. 31) ahead of an EU foreign ministers meeting. Borrell insisted the military coup in Gabon could not be compared to the crisis in Niger. Some 1,000 EU citizens were flown out of Niamey after the coup.

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Coups have happened in Francophone countries; latest being in Gabon