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We need a democratic system in which the power of the state cannot subjugate the power of the people. We need to work out and build an African Democracy just as Europeans and their North American first cousins established Western Democracy and the Chinese conceptualised their democracy or socialism with “Chinese characteristics”.

The coup may have ended the reign of Ali Bongo’s immediate family, but it’s still about the elite preserving itself.

It is the experience of these other forms of coup d’état that creates the conditions for the third type, which is the military coup d’état.

Libreville, Sep 1 (EFE).- Gabon’s primary opposition coalition has sought power-sharing talks with coup leaders who took control of the former French colony earlier this week. In a press statement to local media, the opposition group Alternancia 2023 said the country needed “unity and cohesion, not division.” The opposition claimed its leader, Albert Ondo Ossa, …

The Central African regional bloc ECCAS Thursday condemned the use of force to resolve political conflicts as it called for a rapid return to constitutional order in Gabon. The Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States said in a statement it was closely monitoring the situation in Gabon, and that heads of state…

Former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who died on Wednesday night at the age of 94, was considered a strong proponent of Françafrique, or the “secret criminality in the upper echelons of…

Security forces in Gabon said Wednesday they had seized power and “put an end” to the rule of the family that has held power for 55 years in the francophone country.

Ali Bongo: Who Is Gabons President Arrested In Army Coup?

Gabon's president is ousted in a coup amid election disputes. The world watches as a new era unfolds in this oil-rich African nation.

Let's begin with the postulations of Barack Hussein Obama, an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president. Obama famously posited: “I am in my second term”. "I can find other ways to serve. Nothing |