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  On Wednesday, August 31, Gabon, whose Presidential envoy was in Abuja two weeks ago on solidarity visit to President Tinubu who is the ECOWAS Chairman over the Niger coup debacle became the latest bride of coupists on the continent of Africa.   Early on Wednesday, August 30, the Gabonese national electoral authority announced that Bongo, who had been in power for 14 years, was re-elected for a third term with 64.27 percent of votes cast.  

The coup in Gabon this week is most unlikely to be a regime change. Gen Brice Nguema, the head of the junta is a relation of the Bongo family and started his career as body guard to Omar Bongo, the father of the deposed president who had ruled for 42 years. The coup occurred minutes…

A military coup thrust the Central African nation of Gabon into turmoil Wednesday, unseating the president – whose family had held power for more than half a century – just minutes after he was named the winner of a contested election.

This is coming amid reports of military coups spreading across African nations, with Gabon being the latest. 

General Brice Oligui Nguema, who will be sworn in on Monday as Gabon's military ruler has been a regular face in the corridor of power

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

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.

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 |