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Gabon’s ousted President Bongo ‘free to go abroad’, says junta

September 6, 2023 by Robert Jeff

“He has freedom of movement… and can travel abroad if he wishes,” general Brice Oligui Nguema said in a statement read on state television. Bongo, in power for 14 years, had been under house arrest since the military coup of August 30, carried out without bloodshed less than an hour after his party proclaimed his … Read more

Gabonese soldiers suspend elections, close borders after Bongo’s victory announced

August 30, 2023 by Robert Jeff

Appearing on the Gabon 24 television channel, the officers said they represented all the security and defence forces of the central African nation. The soldiers said election results that gave the incumbent Bongo a victory were annulled, all borders were closed until further notice and state institutions were dissolved. Gabon voted Saturday in presidential, parliamentary and legislative elections in which Bongo and Ondo … Read more