Ali Bongo
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Six months after bringing the curtain down on the 55-year Bongo dynasty, Gabon's military leader remains popular despite criticism of authoritarian governance that is slow to fulfil promises.
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ECOWAS member-States are worried, not because of the masses, but because they want to protect political leaders who are afraid. Togo is worried.
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Former Nigeria vice president Atiku Abubakar said the alarming surge in military takeovers in Central and West Africa is worrisome. Yesterday, military officers in Gabon said they had taken power and put the president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, under house arrest, as the country became the latest in Africa to suffer an attempted coup, only weeks…
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Gabon President Ali Bongo has "been placed in retirement," the head of his presidential guard told Le Monde newspaper on Wednesday after rebel officers said they had toppled him. "He has been placed in retirement. He has all his rights. He's an ordinary Gabonese person, like everyone," Brice Oligui Nguema said, while denying that he…
30 Aug 2023
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday reacted to the latest coup in Gabon, where President Ali Bongo has been ousted and placed under house arrest. Some military personnel had hinged their plot to seize power from Bongo on what they termed as observed flaws in the recent general election in the central African country. The officers…
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