Gabon Protesters Support Junta's Arrest of Bongo Allies
Marches have been held in several towns in a show of solidarity with the junta. Andre-Patrick Roponat, the state prosecutor for Libreville, said several people, including Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, ousted president Ali Bongo's wife and Cabinet members, are under house arrest. Gabon's opposition and civil society groups that support the military junta have said members of Bongo's family are suspected of having real estate empires and stashing huge amounts of money in foreign banks - funds which be used to reduce the gap between the majority poor and the few rich.
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Gabon:
Residents Say They Support Junta's Arrest of Ousted Bongo Cabinet
VOA, 21 September 2023
The public in Gabon appears to support the military junta's arrest and detention of the son of ousted president Ali Bongo and members of his cabinet. Military officials in the… Read more »
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Gabon:
U.S. Govt Pauses Foreign Assistance Programmes
State Department, 27 September 2023
The U.S. government is pausing certain foreign assistance programs benefiting the government of Gabon while we evaluate the unconstitutional intervention by members of the… Read more »
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Gabon:
Son of Deposed Gabon Leader Bongo Charged With Treason, Corruption
allAfrica, 21 September 2023
The son of former Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, as well as some of his associates, were charged with high treason and corruption, and are being held in detention, AFP… Read more »
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Gabon:
Gabon Partially Suspended From the Commonwealth Pending Restoration of Democracy
UK-FCO, 20 September 2023
The 63rd Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) met in New York this week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss developments in member states. Read more »
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Africa:
Further Downhill for African Democracy Efforts
CFR, 15 September 2023
Democracy is decidedly worse for wear in Africa following a set of sham elections in Zimbabwe and Gabon, with few bright spots in the upcoming electoral calendar. Read more »
InFocus
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The military junta in Gabon led by General Brice Oligui Nguema has set a two-year transition period to democracy and military cooperation with France. Nguema has appointed former opposition leaders and key figures from the ousted regime to both houses of parliament.
The new Senate will be led by Paulette Missambo, one of Bongo's leading rivals during the election and head of the National Union party. Jean-Francois Ndongou, who held numerous ministerial posts under the Bongo
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Gabon's coup leaders have announced the appointment of a prominent opponent to deposed president Ali Bongo Ondimba as interim prime minister, following the August 30 military takeover.
The 68-year-old Raymond Ndong Sima had previously served as prime minister under Bongo from 2012 to 2014. He then became a staunch critic and competed against him in elections in 2016 and 2023. He fared poorly at the latest polls, whose results announcing Bongo's contentious win were soon followed by
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General Brice Oligui Nguema, who led military officers in seizing power in Gabon, said the dissolution of the country's institutions was "temporary," amid pressure on the junta to hand power to a civilian government, Deutsche Welle reports.
"It is a question of reorganizing [institutions] in order to make them more democratic and more in line with international standards... for human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law," he said in a
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The port of Libreville (file photo).
