Gabon Elections Will Take Place In 2025 - Junta
The Gabonese military junta has outlined plans for elections and end of the transition, in an address on state television.
Junta Spokesperson, Ulrich Manfoumbi said the Cabinet adopted an "indicative" transition timeframe that will need to be approved at a national conference in 2024.
The military leaders ousted former president Ali Bongo in August 2023, after disputing the outcome of an election. The Bongo family ruled Gabon since 1967 and opponents said that he failed to share the country's oil wealth with its two million citizens.
The military junta has also accused Bongo's wife and eldest son of manipulating the former president, who suffered from a stroke in 2018.
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Gabon:
Military Junta Announces Elections to Be Held in 2025
DW, 13 November 2023
Military leaders ousted former President Ali Bongo in August after disputing the outcome of an election. The Bongo family had ruled Gabon since 1967 and critics say it did not… Read more »
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West Africa:
Coup in Gabon - the Junta Must Not Perpetuate the Suppression of Free Expression
MFWA, 8 November 2023
In this article, Programme Assistant at the MFWA, Melvine Evrard L. Enzeng, from Gabon, shares his reflections about the 30th August coup in his home country. Read more »
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Gabon:
Gabon Seeks Return of Rare Fang Mask Sold in France for Over €4 Million
RFI, 1 November 2023
Authorities in Gabon have launched a legal battle to get back a precious wooden mask used in secret ceremonies by the Fang ethnic group, which was brought to France in colonial… Read more »
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Africa:
Biden Announces AGOA Termination for Gabon, Central African Republic, Niger and Uganda
White House, 31 October 2023
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Madam President:) Read more »
InFocus
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The United States has suspended most financial assistance to Gabon in response to August's military takeover. A group of army officers led by General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, chief of the Republican Guard, placed President Ali Bongo under house arrest on Aug, 30 and seized power. General Nguema was designated
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Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo says West Africa is confronted with a difficult economic, political and social insecurity situation. "Despite the considerable progress made by regional bloc Ecowas in the areas of democracy, good governance and the rule of law since the 1990s, the region is currently witnessing a significant decline in its democratic relations," he said.
Akufo-Addo said this at a high-level parliamentary seminar on the 'Role of the Ecowas Parliament
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Port of Libreville in Gabon's capital city (file photo).
