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LibrLibreville, 5 sep (EFE).- General Brice Oligui Nguema, in charge of Gabon since Wednesday’s coup, met Tuesday with Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra for negotiations in Libreville. Touadéra, appointed last week by the leaders of the Central African bloc to “facilitate the political process,” arrived in the Gabonese capital on Tuesday. Local media …

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Stakeholders in Gabon have revealed that the military junta is out to protect the interests of the ousted president’s family. 

The leader of Gabon’s military junta, General Brice Nguema, was sworn in as interim president by the constitutional court during a televised ceremony on Monday.

“President Tinubu noted that Nigeria, under General Abdulsalami Abubakar, instituted a nine-month transition programme in 1998, and it proved very successful, leading the country into a new era of democratic governance,” presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale said in a press release.

Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema, leader of a coup in Gabon last week, has been sworn in as interim president, while the deposed former president remains detained at his residence.

The leader of Gabon’s military junta, General Brice Nguema, was sworn in as interim president by the constitutional court during a televised ceremony on Monday.

The swearing-in of Gabonese coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema as interim president on Monday seals the downfall of the Bongo dynasty that ruled the oil-rich central African country for over half a century.Coup leader Oligui, the head of the Republican Guard, is named interim president on August 31 and carried through the streets of Libreville by his troops. 

On Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, Gabon, whose Presidential envoy was in Abuja two weeks ago on solidarity visit to President Tinubu who is the ECOWAS Chairman

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